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Mastered Chef?

Written by Colin
Posted March 17, 2010 at 8:19 pm

Currently watching MasterChef on BBC 1. Do you know what I really love, and it’s true for the programming world as well, those people that come in saying “I do this type of cooking, and blog about it, and that’s my job so I must be able to cook” for the presenters to turn around and say “That’s crap, fuck off!”.

As I said this is also true in the programming world. Truthfully I know only a handful of programmers, and for the most part they are excellent. But I have met programmers in my time that call themselves an authority in programming, blog about it all the time, and are awarded for their work in talking about it. But when it comes to the crunch of the matter I wouldn’t trust them with an etch-a-sketch!

Then on the other hand you have a programmer that only started playing with ASP.NET a few years ago, only recently moved to C#, and blogs a little. However each of their blog posts are so insightful to programming that they get picked up by some of the most important websites. Well done William.

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New endings, old beginings

Written by Colin
Posted December 26, 2009 at 9:35 am

2009 is ending, with only 6 days to go. At New Year, millions of people around the world will give the same old resolutions, and break them instantly. I have done it many times before – “I’ll get fit”, “I’ll save money”, “I’ll do this”, “I’ll do that” – blah muther fucking blah! However this time I have a reason to do all this. A few reasons in fact.

In 2009 I fell ill, again, but this time I grabbed the illness by the balls and instead of doing what everyone else in the world seems to do, and go on drugs from your doctor to try and get over it, I went the alternative route. I have family members that have fallen into the drugs trap and their lives become shit. I don’t want to be that way. I choose life. I found yoga, I found meditation but I can’t seem to do it, and I found out that I don’t need to drink all the time to have fun.

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