Creativity, curiosity, and code
I’ve been considering the purpose of this Blog lately It’s really only “notes to self” and yet, I started it after being inspired by other people, who were writing interesting stuff…or at least stuff about what they were up to that was of interest to me. It’s stuff that I’d like good friends to be […]
Another comment that I made on another persons Blog that I wanted to copy here. It took me a while to write and contains a funny story from a business meeting, so I wanted to include it as a “note to self” of my own. The other-Blog author, is actually a friend of Sally’s, but […]
I’ve mentioned Iko, the excellent band that a friend of ours is in, before. The lead singer of the band recently posted an message on his MySpace Blog about filesharing. I spent some time writing a response and wanted to copy my thoughts here. The full thread can be found on MySpace here. Ultimately, Kieran […]
I read an interesting statistic a while back that basically said that if you commute by bike in the UK, despite our highly changable weather, you’ll only cycle in the rain 12 times a year, on average. Hard to believe, but, today I cycled in proper rain for the first time in AGES. It’s the […]
So, it’s been a long year. It’s been a hard year. I’ve been ill a lot. I’ve not achieved very much of what I thought I would. I enjoy physical activity and I’ve not managed to do much. On the up side we have bought a house and very much settled in Swindon, into our […]
[Note – the original idea for this was to include pictures of the logos mentioned but I decided this was probably not legal and so removed them and just did my own “representations”, in the hope that that’s allowed. Look them up on an image search if you want the real thing!] “Maaaarketing…” said an […]
Phew, I’m finally back in the land of the living. Where have I been? Here’s my excuses for not writing for a month… Moving House Well, the house exchange and completion went through. We got the keys to our new house on October 5th. Sally was away for the weekend and I’d been banned from […]
So after a long and complicated couple of days, which I won’t go into the details of here, we finally exchanged contracts on the house and will complete on Friday! Wow. We will own 5% of a house (and be borrowing the rest from the bank). After weeks of not very much happening this is […]
I have now climbed three mountains! What a weekend. We’ve had this trip to Snowdonia planned for ages. My sister and her boyfriend invited us to climb Snowdon the hard way (via Crib Goch) months ago and this weekend, it finally came about. Despite the forward planning, for Sally and I it was all a […]
It’s been nearly a month now since I was up all night being sick…the “flu-like virus” has mostly gone away but, as anyone who’s been watching my Facebook status will tell you, I still have the odd bad day. Tonight has been a particularly bad evening with me collapsing in bed and feeling like I’m […]