Comments on: I want to be Clarkson http://povich.co.uk/blog/2007/02/i-want-to-be-clarkson/ Ramblings of Jim Whiteside, and some good old Norfolk squit. Sat, 19 May 2012 09:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: jaydublu http://povich.co.uk/blog/2007/02/i-want-to-be-clarkson/comment-page-1/#comment-136 jaydublu Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:30:03 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=26#comment-136 Wow! I don't quite know what to say to that - I only wish I felt I live up to a fraction of it. I like the 'infantile enjoyment of new toys .. old enough to keep the safety catch on'. I've a post brewing inspired by a piece in this month's .net magazine you might like about good ideas prevailing ... if I don't get distracted I hope to get it written today. Catch you soon... Wow!

I don’t quite know what to say to that - I only wish I felt I live up to a fraction of it. I like the ‘infantile enjoyment of new toys .. old enough to keep the safety catch on’.

I’ve a post brewing inspired by a piece in this month’s .net magazine you might like about good ideas prevailing … if I don’t get distracted I hope to get it written today.

Catch you soon…

]]> By: sujvala http://povich.co.uk/blog/2007/02/i-want-to-be-clarkson/comment-page-1/#comment-135 sujvala Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:14:54 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=26#comment-135 On more than one occasion have I invoked the image of Clarkson to describe you to a 3rd party: e.g. 'He is to the web scene what Jeremy Clarkson is to the motor industry'. Not unfavourable: - openly and colourfully opinionated, with experience to substantiate his rants - unashamedly enthusiastic - infantile enjoyment of new toys, needing to pepper vocab. with swearing to maintain adult status - always right (except when...) - delightful to all concerned when accepting the existence of 'alternative possibilities' - old enough to keep the safety catch on whatever is being tinkered with... - except sometimes Seriously, most aspects of my working day are informed by your methods and tutelage. Here is a list of technologies that I have been converted to by JW: PHP, MySql, web standards, Subversion (and strategic ignoring), Apache, JQuery, Linux, Mod Rewrite, CMS tricks with 404 scripts, just do it, RTFM. Thanks for all that, Jim! Good luck with your free enterprise, and the subtle effects of turning 40... On more than one occasion have I invoked the image of Clarkson to describe you to a 3rd party: e.g. ‘He is to the web scene what Jeremy Clarkson is to the motor industry’.

Not unfavourable:
- openly and colourfully opinionated, with experience to substantiate his rants
- unashamedly enthusiastic
- infantile enjoyment of new toys, needing to pepper vocab. with swearing to maintain adult status
- always right
(except when…)
- delightful to all concerned when accepting the existence of ‘alternative possibilities’
- old enough to keep the safety catch on whatever is being tinkered with…
- except sometimes

Seriously, most aspects of my working day are informed by your methods and tutelage.
Here is a list of technologies that I have been converted to by JW: PHP, MySql, web standards, Subversion (and strategic ignoring), Apache, JQuery, Linux, Mod Rewrite, CMS tricks with 404 scripts, just do it, RTFM. Thanks for all that, Jim!

Good luck with your free enterprise, and the subtle effects of turning 40…

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