Categories: Misc
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William on
5/18/2010 7:53 PM |
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This most be one of the most common complaints on blogs that I know of. Hopefully, the search engines won’t work for your attempt to up your search ratings by spamming my site.
If you are about to post some spam, please don’t bother. I’m only going to delete it as soon as I can.
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It’s just to the south of Bishopton and it covers a huge area mainly enclosed by trees.
http://www.multimap.com/s/v0wqe5iD
It looks like either a waste treatment centre or a repository of some kind.
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Categories: Misc
Posted by
William on
9/9/2009 11:03 PM |
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Looks like some good weather in store for this weekend. The garden is a bit of a mess so it should be possible to get the grass cut at least and make sure that no Tigers are hiding in there. They can be a bit of a nuisance.
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Remember those experiments at school, involving Woodlice (Slaters) where you create an environment with a light side and a dark side. Well, there was a great example of this today in the office, with one half of the room in darkness and the other fully lit. Of those devs in the office, 3 were in the dark, 2 in semi dark and 2 in the light. Initially, there were 3 in the light, 2 in semi light and 2 in the dark. As the day wore on and light levels fell making the dark side darker, 1 developer moved out of the light to be in the dark side.
Perhaps this example isn’t entirely convincing, but I’m sure there is something going on here with the typical developer preference for the darker working environment. I seem to remember most of the Computer Science students at Uni would hang out in the computer labs at night, in front of the big old DEC machines, with most of the lights off.
I wonder if part of this is to do with a need for sensory deprivation, a way of reducing the volume of information entering the brain. I know some developers will also use headphones to block out the background chatter, helping them focus on the work and less on the distracting debates about the best method of elastic band projection.
Actually, I’m wondering if this preference for dark (sensory deprivation) hints at an autistic tendency in most developers. Or perhaps it's just easier to sleep with the lights off?
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