Retro
In-between washing clothes, tidying the house, and achieving very little of consequence today, I happened upon a rather pointless exercise that ate much of t...
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Accidents Will Happen
My other half left early this morning to begin dressing a truck to carry children from the school she works at in the town carnival. While she did that I wan...
Switching Off
After being immersed in source code all day, I sometimes find it difficult to switch off. A huge system I have been working on for the last few weeks is edgi...
Fine With That
It’s heading towards midnight, and I’m sitting in the junk room, thinking back through the day. Unfortunately sitting in front of a desk all day writing soft...
Simplification
I removed all the stock photos from my blog posts earlier. I intended to write about it when I did it (at lunchtime), but one thing after another happened, a...
Unexpected Gifts
I’m sitting in the dark of the junk room at home, typing this on the old computer that I’ve often written about - the one made up from various spare parts. I...
The Barn Dance
Last night I attended my first ever “barn dance”. I think it was arranged by a group of local churches as a fund-raiser for two charities - one providing aid...
That Friday Feeling
I was late for work today. I took a detour through town to get my mobile phone battery replaced, and to get a haircut. My hair had reached the curious “start...
Stop The World
Having been back from holiday for a week and a half, I already feel like I need another holiday. It feels like I’ve been submerged since my return, and am lo...
The Angry Little Man
Last Wednesday morning I found myself sitting in the foyer of the Holiday Inn in Leeds, Yorkshire, killing time before a meeting. I had scraped myself out of...