Just a couple of random things… All Hardware Sucks. Amazon UK have started selling DRM-free MP3 downloads. They even include helper application packages for a number of Linux distributions. I see this as being a potentially dangerous cash sink 🙂 BBC’s Horizon had an episode about ‘Time’ the other night: excellent stuff, introduced by the… (read more)
Haven’t posted for a while; things have been a little manic. I’m posting this while waiting for the car to be serviced, so I have some time just to sit still. There are no interwebs here in the Ford showroom, at least none that I can use, so my words will have to be uploaded… (read more)
From Jono Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture. I have just biked into work. Be grateful the web is not yet odour-enabled. 🙂
The great Building Project continues well. If you’re interested, you can see photos on Facebook: if you’re reading this and not one of my Facebook contacts – and think you should be – add me via my email address on the Contact page. I also see that Stephen Fry appears in a short video celebrating… (read more)
A couple of weeks ago, I finally met Striped Legs (or “Stripey”) on my bike ride into work. We chatted, as two fellow cyclists do, grumbling about the traffic and the weather. I told her that I called her “Stripey” and she seemed to find that quite funny and said that most people called her… (read more)
The great Building Project started yesterday. At 08:00 when I left for work, the place looked like this: A few hours later, there was only this: With any luck, there’s only another six months to go 🙂
And so the annual pilgrimage to Wolverhampton for Lugradio Live happened. Excellent, as expected. The above photo shows me in the background, sat between Dave ‘Schwuk’ Murphy (yellow T-shirt) and Steve Lamb Of (Erm…) Microsoft. Some good talks, lots of interesting people to talk to: the Usual Crew, MrBen, Bruno, Neuro, Bryn, Oojah, plus the… (read more)
On Thursday evening last week just as I was about to leave work, I had a phone call from Jono Bacon to tell me that the Lugradio team had decided to call it a day. This is a great shame, but ultimately the guys believe that it’s the right choice. They’re probably right. The shows… (read more)
I can’t believe that no-one has told me about Hut 33, a radio comedy about codebreakers’ life at Bletchley Park. And I’ve missed more than a whole series. I don’t suppose anyone reading this has a recording of the programme, or knows where one might buy such a thing? e.g an audio book? Update: thank… (read more)
When I was about 12 or 13, like all the other children with glasses I learned how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. I’d long since forgotten how to do so. However, I was given a new Rubik’s Cube for my birthday recently. I decided that, if I was going to learn once again to solve… (read more)
