Reading time: 3 mins Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly Received as a birthday present last year this was an ideal “train” book as it’s automatically broken into chunks for, as it says on the front cover, this book is “a journey round the shipping forecast”. It also holds a tiny bit of extra importance for me as the…
Reading time: < 1 min I’ve updated the feeds available from this site (and one day I’ll figure a nice clean way to present the choices, for now this is all you get). The main site feed now includes a daily cull of my del.icio.us links. Thanks largely to the lazy sheep bookmarklet, I’m using del.icio.us a lot more these…
Reading time: 2 mins I mentioned the SeaMonkey project last week. It’s a package from Mozilla which includes “a state-of-the-art web browser and powerful email client, as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat client”. Having downloaded it, installed it, and tried to break it for the last few days I can unreservedly state…
Reading time: 2 mins Popped into our local Lidl the other night – I always find the food tastier, it seems to be made for the ‘continental palate’? – to pick up some basics, tuna, juice, cold meat, milk, mayonnaise and so on. The shop was pretty quiet so we were the only people at the till as we…
Reading time: < 1 min A lot of bloggers have ideas above their station. I’m probably one of them although I’ll never admit it. So when razor popped by a left a comment to tell me that I was being quoted in today’s Guardian.. well, colour me surprised (and quietly chuffed, just don’t tell anyone). Now, aside from the issue…
Reading time: 2 mins The rest of February and all of March are going to be busy. VERY busy. I fully expect that, to meet both professional and, um, “pro-personal” commitments, I’ll need to spend several weekends working. However I’m actually looking forward to that, the pro-personal side in particular, as everything I’m working on is fun, new and…