Creativity, curiosity, and code
My cycling activities seem to be governed by sods law. Here is a list of how I think the rule applies to cycling. The speed a cyclist attains is inversely proportional to the effort put in. In the last couple of days I’ve done three rides. Monday I flew without even trying. Tuesday I went […]
We’ve been harvesting for a while now. We got: a good crop of onions; numerous, but quite small, potatoes; a few handfuls of tomatoes; leeks; spring onions; peas. Not very much of each, though, as you can see, the potatoes and onions were pretty good. We did have quite a big blight problem, which spread […]
Some will know of my occasional anti-Englishness. Sometimes our over-politeness causes huge complications. My classic example being the “Do you want the last ….?” question, which actually means “I want the last …. ?”. Why don’t we just say what we mean? This has been bugging me a bit lately with people who use phrases […]
The Internet (and, indeed, the press in general) has been alive with talk of Google Chrome. As always, I won’t have much to add to the masses of stuff that’s already been written, but here’s how Chrome has been for me. Hearing about it Heck, it was only yesterday but it seems so long ago! […]
Quick note for any regular readers (I think there might be two of you!), I’ve been playing with some technical jiggery-pokery (DNS sub-domain/CNAME entries to be exact) and have managed to make Blogger look like it’s on my own domain. Woo hoo! So, hopefully, regardless of where it’s hosted (this MAY be under review), my […]
Blimey – we’re just about to go on our next hoilday so it’s about time I posted notes on our last! Back at the end of June we went away to Northern Ireland for a week. I took some notes as we went on my electronic organiser but never got round to fleshing them out. […]
Sally has been away this week at a residential camp for young people from all over the country involved in climate change projects. I don’t explain it very well so check out http://www.youmeandtheclimate.org/ for a better explanation. I popped down for the weekend to help out, see what was going on, and, yes, to spend […]
The Ten Commandments of Telephone Conference Calls I am the chairman, who booked the line and invited you to the call. Thou shalt have no other means of conducting spoken business with more than two people in more than one place, for thou workest in a cost-cutting environment. Thou shalt not book other meetings and […]
I rode to Cholsey today. I last did the 35 mile trip on my bike just over a year ago. It was the same time of year, probably the same kind of weather. But last year my health wasn’t great. I had a heavy, clunky, cheap bike. Since then I’ve acquired Fuzzy (or possibly, Fuzzy […]
Cycle mileage has been down of late as recent posts have explained. But, in Sally’s absence, I’ve lined up a 34 mile ride to visit my Uncle in Cholsey (route something akin to this ) and I’m REALLY excited about it! I’ve just put some a new front tyre on because some shards of glass […]