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Chess Website Under Construction

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Yet another project… I’m not sure I really have the time (or the will) to get this project up and running anytime soon, but I have started on the development...

Happy Easter

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Just a short posting this morning to say happy easter to everybody who might read this blog - I have no idea who you are, but I hope you have a good easter w...

Off To Cornwall For Easter

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The work week is drawing to a close here in the UK as we prepare for the easter break - Friday and Monday are “Bank Holidays” in the UK, so everybody gets th...

Hitting The Roads

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Myself and a good friend started our training in earnest for the Marlow 5 running race in May last night - we went out for a gentle run around town just to f...

Just Taking A Break

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I’m just taking a quick break from my development work (I’m at work as I write this), so thought I would write about my day so far.

Playing With Gt4

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Tonight I have been playing with the “Photo Tour” mode in Gran Turismo 4 - the basic idea being that you do a few laps of a given track in one of “your” cars...

Gran Turismo 4 Rules

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In what appears to be something of a pattern, I went into town to get my hair cut on Saturday morning, and there were loads of people in the barbers, so I en...

They Got It Wrong

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Today I am very happy indeed. I checked the wording of my employment contract, and it turns out the company I work for DOES NOT have a clause claiming owners...

Kasparov Retires

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It was something of a shock tonight to learn that Garry Karsparov has announced he is retiring from professional chess competition.

Getting Over It

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I’m getting over the shock now of discovering that my contract of employment basically says that the company I work for holds the intellectual property right...