Pete Johns - Blog entries of the highest uptodateness

Like a (publicly undisclosed) number of others around the globe, I left ITG on Tuesday as the company took measures to reduce operating costs.

I recently came across a blog entry on Importance of Writing Code Comments in Software Development. It’s a proposition I’ve heard many times before, so I took a read to see if there was some reasoning I may have missed. There wasn’t.

I’ve been a motorsport fan since I was a young boy. Formula 1 was and is a particular fascination. I didn’t go to my first Grand Prix until the 2005 Belgian Grand Prix, which was an amazing experience. A few months after that, I moved to Melbourne, a stone’s throw away from the iconic Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit at Albert Park. Since then, I have been every year to watch the drivers at motorsport’s zenith battle it out for the top spot on the podium on a Sunday evening.

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Yesterday morning I had an email from Facebook letting me know that a friend had tagged me on his profile. This sounded fair enough, we’re friends after all. It went on to say that he tagged me under “University” with the name of my alma mater.

Wow!

In case you were wondering, I have unlinked my feeds. For what it’s worth, I think you should unlink your feeds too. Life is short, time is precious and I certainly don’t have the inclination to read the same words twice (sometimes more) in one day. Do you?

K and I have been together for nearly ten years now and have been married for seven of these. One question that we seem to get asked with increasing frequency and increasing volume is "When are you two having kids?"

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Just a little something that may come in handy in the future (for my reference, rather than yours), a Python one-liner for converting an ASCII string to hexadecimal pairs.