mindless ramblings

I thought my Canon Powershot A70 finally gave up the ghost when I brought it to Go Fish last week. After taking 2 pictures, it refused to retract (or extend) the lens mechanism. I had a sneaking suspicion that it might be due to the cold but I was prepared for the worst. My camera [...]

Miss your NES or Sega Genesis/Megadrive? Too lazy to download and install emulators and find ROMs? Wait no more, Game-Oldies.com has all the old school console games you want to play right in your browser. All you need is a Java-enabled browser and off you go. You can even download a joystick pack to use [...]

Dilbert describes it succintly. It is tough to perform good requirements elicitation, especially from people who may not be conversant with software development. What the client tells you is often nothing like what he really wants. Even worse, he may end up telling you when you are almost done coding that he forgot something and [...]