Leaving Early
It’s half past two in the afternoon, and I’m watching my work laptop backup a virtual machine. I’m headed to far flung client sites to demonstrate software t...
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Time For A New Bike
On the way home from work on Friday evening, the gears at the rear of my mountain bike started to misbehave. Given that the front mech had seized about six m...
Retro Computing
This post was written on a retro “G3” iMac in the corner of the junk room we somewhat convincingly call the “Study” at home. We bought the iMac from eBay abo...
Steve Jobs
We finally watched the Aaron Sorkin movie “Steve Jobs” last nightstreamed as a rental from Amazon.
Dont Spare The Horses
The greater part of the afternoon turned into a clock watching exercise, where I tinkered with a mountain of source code while trying not to get too sucked i...
Alone In The Hotel
Today is Wednesday, and the third evening of self-imposed incarceration in the hotel. I’m half tempted to wander across the road to the pub, just to see if i...
My Own Worst Enemy
You wouldn’t believe what I have been doing since the moment I got back to the hotel if I told you. I’m going to tell you anyway, because that’s the special ...
The Journey North
“The Journey North” sounds tremendously romanticI’m imagining Svaldbard, and huge armored polar bears. Unfortunately my journey is taking me a few thousands ...
Organising The Archives
I’ve decided to start out on a somewhat long, somewhat arduous process, which will be helped in no uncertain terms by the skill-set I bring to it. I’m probab...
Mad Weekend
Last night we attended the “Spring Fling” social gathering at the local junior school. I don’t think we drankthat much, but we both felt the after-effects th...