You know you haven’t had enough sleep when you get to work and press the wrong button on the coffee machine.
Happily I’ve discovered that the newsagent closest to work sells flapjacks just like the ones available in the WGB café. Not quite as tasty, but cheaper!
Tim Bray has an insightful article on how a user in charge of their own computing environment should go about ensuring the safety of their data. (”Data” sounds very stuffy, but how would you feel if the friend who fixes your computer turned round and told you all your photos and music were gone forever? [...]
Have you ever found a solution to a tricky problem just through talking to someone else about it? The people at 43 Folders suggest you miss out the middle-person and just talk to yourself…
While researching some links for my previous post I came across this Wikipedia entry about an abandoned tube station. I always thought disused Underground stations were a movie “myth”, but it turns out there are quite a few of them! [Wikipedia]
All the travelling I did last year gave me a new determination to explore more of my own country, and especially London as when you live in a place it is very easy to dismiss tourists and completely miss the reasons they have come to visit! Some fun things I have done recently:
Premiership football at [...]
There is hopefully a special part of hell reserved for those that inflict stupidly bad design decisions upon us. Take, for example, the decision by the makers of the machines that allow one to top up their oyster card to require the process to be terminated by the user presenting their card to the machine [...]
The January Sales are a wonderful thing: yesterday I picked up a Ferguson R116D DAB digital radio for half price at Dixons.
I’ve been considering a digital radio for a some time. Some people claim the quality is lower than FM and punters would be better off listening via the Internet, or using a [...]
I love holidays. Today I finally found sometime to cook up a new way of putting a fun quote after my name in all of my emails. This regular feature of my electronic correspondence sadly disappeared when I upgraded to a new version of OS X; the new version of Apple Mail no longer seems [...]
Our flaming Christmas pudding proved a good opportunity to play with my new camera — I’ve finally gone digital!
Wow - it’s been nearly a month since I have blogged! Sadly, moving house, city and job in one go, plus all the usual Christmas excitement, has kept me quite busy these last few weeks… However, I do have some posts in the pipeline, and with the Christmas holidays now upon us, hopefully I will [...]
Just to let everyone know, I’ve made it to London! Rosie and I moved into our new flat today — we’ve already discovered our “local” is The Royal Oak!
We’ll be visiting Cambridge on Sunday (4th Dec) so we would love to see everyone who is in the area for brunch in the Bun Shop from [...]
Sadly my @cam.ac.uk email account was cancelled on Friday — I had be warned that this would happen at some point, but annoyingly the Computing Service failed to give me any specific warning and so I only found out when I couldn’t login last night.
I haven’t actually used this address to send email [...]
Britain is famous for its rain, but it rarely rains really heavily for an entire day like it has done here, today — the puddles are so big the pavements are practically flooded! The forcast is “rain”, “heavy rain” and more “rain” through ’til Saturday too; I never thought I would be find myself missing [...]
Apologies for the lack of recent updates, but with Rosie visiting for two weeks I’ve been far too busy doing things to write about any of them! Unfortunately Rosie has now gone back to Cambridge leaving me with little excuse to put off various work-related tasks any longer… A quick summary of touristy-things we [...]
Sitting in an office all-day is not good for your health, so I was very pleased to find out about an open Ultimate Frisbee game in Central Park that happens every Saturday afternoon. The players were friendly and welcoming, it was a beautiful day, and I really enjoyed playing — although the pitch was not [...]