The Linux Jewellery Store sells a BSD Daemon (the “Beastie”), cast in pewter with a choice of finishes.

I’m quite envious of Matt Webb’s skinnable weblog; actually I’m quite envious of Matt’s entire weblog, but then he’s been at it a good deal longer than I have (since February 2000, according to his archive links).

It’s strange that such an apparently simple idea has had such an impact on the World Wide Web, although it is probably somewhat closer to what Tim Berners-Lee had in mind when he came-up with the entire thing.

I did, in the end, get down to it and do some real work (actually, I had already done some when I posted my first message, just not very much).

Cocoa development really is fascinating; it’s so different from the mess we developers have to put up with on other systems… not only have we got the UN*X APIs underneath, but we’ve got a really neat object system and a decent framework designed by someone that actually knows about OOD. And to think it was all around in the 1980’s!

Until Friday, I worked for Telsis, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer based on the south coast of England. I’d been getting itchy feet for some time, especially as my friends kept leaving to travel round the world (Darren is a good example of this — see Hev and Darren’s Global Adventure).

The upshot of this is that three months ago, I resigned to work for myself, writing software for Mac OS X; today is my first day, and I thought that, rather than working (oops, 100% deviation from plan already), I’d set-up a weblog using the excellent Movable Type.

Anyway, I am Alastair and here is my blog.