Housemate James brought home some suspiciously long-life bread….
Housemate James brought home some suspiciously long-life bread. The suspect part is that he bought it in early October.
Further tales of Windows brilliance
We have an arrangement set up here in our office so that in order to work from home we connect to the corporate network using the Cisco VPN (Virtual Private Network) Client – a little bit of software that burrows through the Intertubes and joins up to some servers in the rack/farm so that our…
Bom bom, ding, diddle-diddle, TING! (plus a bit of Fnarr Fnarr!)
I’ve loved reading Viz magazine since I was about 16. After first being exposed to the wholesome, 1950s-style optimism of British “Fish & Chips” comics like Dandy and Beano there was something that spoke to me in the subversive and sniggering-behind-the-bike-shed humour of Viz and its motley band of characters like Felix & His Amazing…
How you can tell that the holiday in Australia’s over.
Instead of looking around at the immediate outdoor environment and seeing such magnificent t-shirt conducive stuff as this: you instead peep out of your front door to be greeted with something more akin to this: For extra added bonus points, there’s also the option of checking the forecast on the BBC website. Chances are, if…
Large calendar granularity tick-over point
Ahoyhoy. Ever been so busy having a good time that you haven’t had a chance to write about what a great time you’re having? Yeah, well… that. Following an EXTRAORDINARILY successful tour of Adelaide, Canberra, then Adelaide again, I’m now in Melbourne on a fairly warm (36 degree) day, waiting for my lift to head…
Ad-hoc, ad-loc, and quid pro quo… so little time, so much to… errm… go!
Barely had a spare second to scratch myself – let alone write blog entries – this week. Tomorrow morning’s departure to Adelaide is presently very much on my mind, and my primary interest is not sleeping through my 05:00 alarm in order to be able to take off from Heathrow at 09:20 (yeah… 4+ hour…
And now, boxing results…
Before we get on to the riveting topic of the post, amid all the talk of Movember I thought it might be prudent to acknowledge the moustachial efforts of a fine band of individuals, being they who grew a mo this year and raised funds for charity. What an ace collection of mo-work, wouldn’t you…
Conquering of the literary world:0. Hirsuteness:1.
The process of novelwriting is an educational one, as it turns out. Here are a few insights from personal experience based on this year’s attempt at Nanowrimo: It’s absolutely critical to recognise an environment where you’re not going to be able to get any writing done. For me, 2 biggies were home, and work. Along…