Things I'm currently advocating

Donks

Putting a donk on things makes them sound bouncy and this is a nice thing. A bouncy little world in my head, thoughts squidging around like smiley, supercharged bubbles...

This week the power went out at the office, so the only tools we had were the new MacBooks, which comes equipped with a little package called GarageBand. It was probably the greatest morale boosting half hour of my working life as we made ridiculous music and filmed a short "donkumentary" about the making of. Team building exercises? Therapists? Weeks away? Stand up meetings? Bah to the lot of 'em. What you wanna do with it, right, is put a bangin' donk on it!

Software that doesn't require an install

I ran my last PC into the ground with the amount of software I had installed. I need more equipment than Batman for my day to day job - Visual Studio, Komodo, Cygwin, IIS, PHP, NetBeans, KDiff, Skype, Office, Word, Firefox, IE, Opera, the list goes on and on... I've taken to using apps that just run as exes with their config in a simple .ini file. I'm currently rolling with mRemote, winscp and FoxitReader, and all three work perfectly with no installation necessary - no registry clutter!

Samba Lucas

Man was amazing last night. Giants walk amongst us, people. Backed with an awesome band, Samba's louche charisma is finally starting to get the exposure it deserves.