Hello all,

I'm not posting on LJ any more -- please update your feeds to http://mumak.net.

However, if Livejournal is your only way of interacting with the blogging world, then you may be interested in http://jonathanlange.livejournal.com. Thanks to Mary for setting it up for me.

jml

Hello all,

I'm going to be blogging from mumak.net from now one. This blog will receive no more posts. Please update your RSS feeds.

I'll try to arrange syndication for LJ users soon.

jml

Recent reads:

• Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• PeopleWare, Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
• The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
• The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
• Confessions, Augustine
  

Last night I had a conversation with a friend of mine who is both ill and a poet. We were talking about blogging. We don't normally talk about blogging, honest.

Ben had asked fellow blogger Shiloh whether blogging drained her creativity for other enterprises. Shiloh said no. Uhh... just having looked at some of the recent posts, I can believe that.

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Here are the five things you probably don't know about me. It took a lot of soul searching and imaginative interpretation to come up with five things that are new, true, decent and unlikely to stir up litigation.

1. Youth

Now, many of you know that I grew up in a town lying deep in the heart of redneck country called Kingaroy. I went to both primary ( Read more... )

Glyph just tagged me with the "Five Things" chain mail. Bloody hell. I'm going to have a lot of trouble coming up with five interesting things that are not generally known about me.

Expect some delay before I post my Five Things.

• I am coming to the end of several weeks of work for Divmod. It was a lot of fun.
• I am going to LCA 2007. I think it will be fun.
• I have moved into an office in Hobart. I'm sharing with three other guys. It's way easier to focus.
• I just got back from cleaning said office.
• On the 22nd, I will start work with Canonical. I'm really excited.

Crossroads asked me to give a five minute talk on how my belief in Jesus affects my job. I wrote the talk out in full while preparing it. What follows is a slightly edited version of my notes. I've removed any references to the audience, polished up the formatting and made some things closer to what I actually said on the night ( Read more... )

Thanks to the Language Log (just google it), I came across a linguistic humour website. On that site, I came across a helpful page on their used as a gender-neutral singular.I had already switched to using 'their' for gender-neutral singular, but felt vaguely uneasy about the decision. It was like deciding to wear shorts after a long winter. The ( Read more... )

Work

Since I've finished my apprenticeship, I've been working for Divmod Inc. So far it's been a lot of fun.
Cafes

I like to spend a lot of time in cafes. I like coffee, and I find the cafe atmosphere helps me work. I think getting away from the internet helps too. Recently, I discovered Petite Toulouse, hiding where Oomph ( Read more... )