Tom Lachecki

I've just gotten through reading an awful article from the BBC about one reporter's unsuccessful attempt to "get to grips" with Linux.

Turns out the Facebook team release features fully expecting them to contain bugs, concentrating on having efficient ways to rollback the code to a last known 'good' version. This is according to an interview with Jonathan Heiliger, the company's Vice President of Technical Operations.

This Engrish fail was taken a year ago in Cyprus and I only just found it in my photo archives. Please link back if reproduced.

Gordon Brown has finally spoken up loudly and jumped on the anti-Russia bandwagon with chafing hypocrisy.

Here's a visualisation of this week's blog feed; it's not hard to see where my mind's been at lately.

Today the BBC has included in an article documenting Russia's latest defensive remarks the most seemingly honest summary of the original events that I've seen so far.

Reasonably predictably, Vladimir Putin is suggesting that the United States government played a significant role during the recent conflict in Georgia, a former Soviet state. But I am starting to think that there is a little more to this than the usual slant.

Police in Shropshire are planning to enter the burnt-out home of a missing family within the next 24 hours, reports the BBC.

Today I quickly point out a possible bug that can easily come about in C++ if you're altering interfaces.

Today at work I discovered a flaw in our framework that was really pretty obvious from IE6, but hadn't been noticed at all pre-testing because nobody expected it.