Creativity, curiosity, and code
Dear very small readership The long and short of this (well, the short of it) is that I’m going to move by blog away from Google’s Blogger to WordPress in the near future. This will mean that: The URL will remain the same. EXCEPT…if you read a feed this will probably be at a new […]
Control Alt Delete FIRST: A blatant plug for our favourite, not-very-well-known band (yes, we know someone in it) Iko. We don’t like them because we know them – we like them because we think they do really good music! They are on the verge of releasing their second album and have just released a freely […]
Both Fuzzy and I have been ill of late. I’ve had the same cold (I think) three times now and still feel like I’m fighting it off. There seems to be a lot of nasty bugs around this winter. And Fuzzy – the poor bike – started, well, it started with the odd clank and […]
A couple of IT annoyances. Software Updates It seems that whenever I turn my computer on at the moment, about half of the software needs to auto-update. Pidgin (IM client), Firefox (and extensions), Anti-Virus, Adobe Reader and Flash, Windows, iTunes…it’s incessant! And it means that it’s about half an hour from pushing the on button […]
It’s been a busy time for the Wintles! We’ve had numerous busy weekends, in Devon with my in-laws, on a Tour of the North (Leeds, Durham, and then back home via Cambridge and London), and we’ll be in London this coming weekend too. So we’ve not been at home much. Weekday evenings have been busy […]
A Confession Having finally, after many months, confessed to having a Wii and telling the world what I think about it. It’s time for the next step of my “coming out”. We, after a long period of searching, also bought a Wii Fit! If you have no idea what I’m talking about then take a […]
I don’t really like the word “Evangelist”. It conjurs up visions of shouty men in the middle of town telling people that they’re all going to hell at the tops of their voices. Either that or suit-wearing professional speakers who hold big Christian rallys in stadiums. Not me at all, and, despite my strong Christian […]
It’s been a while since I wrote about the garden, and in particular about the slugs. Slug activity seemed to heighten around June/July time, probably compounded by the fact that we had another wet and not overly hot summer. We’d initially tried beer traps but these were time consuming and messy and, over time, seemed […]
Here are some wise sayings that seem quite relevant given the current credit crunch: “Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.” “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” “Don’t guarantee […]
I’m sure a million people have reviewed the Nintendo Wii, so my comments on the latest addition to our household will be late and fairly insignificant. Still, having had the Wii for a while, I want to note what I think. Gaming History and Philosophy in the Wintle Household Sally and I aren’t big gamers. […]