BINARY LOVE

It’s a universal constant that no matter what you do or who you talk to, you’ll never be short of advice. This can be helpful, or really bloody unhelpful depending who’s bending your ear, but there’s no escaping the flood of other people’s ideas.

If there’s one piece of advice we received from Red Dwarf’s neurotic android Kryten that we need to hold close to our hearts for all of our days, it’s this: ‘If you don’t GOSUB a program loop, you’ll never get a subroutine’. Or, in more Lister-friendly parlance, ‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained’. It’s an obvious point, but nevertheless one that stands to be remembered – you only live once, and there’s no point spending your life thinking about what could