I had high hopes for Robotics, and it seemed to give me everything I needed as a part-time fun course. Group work, technical projects and trips galore. So I have decided to quit, and move onto another topic, which right now I do not know.
Robotics is not the problem for me, its the people. The general, average member of the Symonds robotics team is taking 7 A-Levels. Most people take a maximum of 3, sometimes 4 if their bright. I’m part of the most people, so I can’t keep up with the thought and speed of my fellow robotiers.
Basicily, I suck at building robots. However, I’m better at destroying them. If a robotics uprising occurs however, then I guess I’m your man. 
Looking though my colleges books supply come up with a slim computing section. The odd book on the wonder that is Delphi, perhaps a Dummies book. But, there was the odd gem, For example “Operating Systems Design and Implementation” / The Minix Book. The book which taught Linus the basics and inspired him to write his kernel.
Also available, “The Art Of Deception” by the legend that is Kevin Mitnick. Now that should provide me with some lite, technical, Christmas reading!
Be prepared for some really advanced code here…
While True:
Print "Jack > You"
I know. Its amazing.
Ok, I’ve spent the last two days working on little bits and bobs of code. I admit that the results where not as I expected, but they achieve the job I set them. Tonight I’d like to annonuce two new little items. Saucy and Downtime. Lets start with Downtime. (God, I feel like Steve Jobs).
Downtime. My first ever Wordpress plugin. Simple question, what does it do? Answer, produces a static page for when a site is down. For example, when activated, users cannot access the site, but the admin can. Thus allowing the admin the ability to change features and themes without disrupting the user. Well, its useful to me. 
Saucy. A way of organizing all of my publishable code. I admit, its just a themed wordpress, but it does the job I need it to. Organize my code.
Goodnight.
Why the hell do Apple keyboards come without a hash key? Hash is the one little key that all programmers use but all users don’t. Every programming language under the sun uses a hash (#) somewhere.
In programming, one of the most comman uses of # is for comments. An example of Perl code with a useage of #.
#Prints out the words "Hello World!".
print "Hello World!";
Without the noble #, the programmers talents will go to waste. Apple’s keyboards are lovely, but without a # key, 3rd parties will have the upper hand. Please Apple, if you’ve done so well with the iPhone’s “Magical” Multi-Touch, can’t you add one little key to a keyboard?
I can take a @ key in the wrong place, but now their taking the piss.
Update: Turns out that I can press alt-3 for # symbol. No more copying it of the net for me. Thanks Harry.
