Hey everyone. Please say hello to Dexter!
Procrastination is something I’ve very adept at. Also talking about how I wished I had a dog. Plainly I did that too much, as Amanda finally snapped and deci...
2014
2010
Windows on a mobile? Are you serious?
After living with a Windows Mobile 7 phone, I’m not (surprisingly) ready to throw it through a window. In fact .. quite the opposite
Time to make a change
I’m not a fitness nut. Not at all. In fact, I’m not even fit. And there-in lies the problem. This is the beginning of my quest to become more fit … but r...
Kali
It was the summer of 1990, and after years of pleading my parents finally succumbed and said my sister and I could have a dog.
Off to Cairo
The decision to come to Egypt wasn’t entirely my idea. In fact, it wasn’t my idea at all. I was required for a work meeting. Well, part of a meeting. 2 hours...
2009
Narcotic pillows
Pillows as drugs. Bet the authorities never saw this comming. Violence on the streets as gangs fight over the best corners to sell their super-comfy pillow...
It’s all Twitter’s fault
Yes, I do remember I have a blog, and no I don’t have a good excuse for not updating it … but that’s not going to stop me having a damn good go at convincing...
2008
A Tragedy and the Wildhearts
That’s the line-up by the way. The world famous Barrowlands played hosted to a the musical stylings of Tragedy: An All Metal Tribute to the BeeGees, followe...
Worst remake … evar!!one!
Don’t ask me why, but I’ve just watched the first epidose of the new series of Knight Rider (2008). Well, that’s not stricly true … it was a few hours ago, ...
Sun lovin’
It’s around this time of year that I tend to start craving a little sunshine. Going somewhere warm for a week or so is pretty much exactly what the doctor o...
Dead? More of a hiatus really
The photo a day project that was started at the beginning of June may look like it died a death, and it’s true that it’s hardly a photo every single day, sin...
Speedy Reader
I like books. I like reading. Books are more satisfying that a film in many ways, not least when you have completed it and think back on the story, plot, twi...
Hello again, old friend
Back again. New look. New title. Same old same old. Maybe it’s the comittment I am afraid of. WIth yesterday being the 2008 summer solstice it appears t...
2007
Learned the hard way
A stag weekend in Amsterdam. Surely there is something to be learnt from this. If there’s one thing to be learnt from a stag weekend in Amsterdam, it’s that...
Caffeine high
Sometimes it’s the small things that get you through the day. Sometimes it’s may cups of coffee. I don’t know what I would do without this stuff. The wonder...
Flight of fancy
So this is the second post from my mobile. I could almost get used to this roaming type thing. The reason for this post is being at the airport slightly earl...
Mobile in sunny Bradford
This will be a (mercifully) short entry for a couple of reasons. First of which is because I’m in Bradford for a client meeting. Not that being in Bradford i...
Work, 2007 style
Comparing work now to how it was this time in 2006, there are a number of similarities and a number of differences. Last year I may have supposed to been in ...
Happy new blah blah blah
You get the idea. It’s the obligatory New Years post, and it’s actually on New Year this time Impressive. So, how was your hogmany? In Glasgow, which is usua...
2006
Bearded lady in frilly panties shocker
And that was the week that was. Or at least part of a week anyhow. It all started on a wet and windy St Andrew’s Day night, which for those not up on special...
Erroneously uninformative
First of all, forgive me for this work related rant. Names have been changed to protect the innocent, or rather the guilty. Throughout the IT world, it is g...
Lazy weekend
Once again it’s been so long since my last entry that I really should insert a semi-plausible excuse in here, but you must have figured it out by now. If not...
Pipe n’ slippers
I am getting old. Apparently teenagers are shunning email for instant messages. I still have trouble with email. I remember when email was something reserve...
A bit of perspective
This evening, as I was packing up at work to come home, I noticed a most odd light coming through the office window. The windows in our office face west, and...
I’ll have a q please Bob
Yes, folks. On Saturday I met Bob Holness, from Blockbusters fame. Ahh .. Blockbusters … those were the days. I’ll have a P please Bob. snigger Now .. where...
Include, include. My kingdom for an include
It’s been a while since I’ve had a work-related rant, so here’s one to help bolster the stats. We recently got a copy of a PHP website which needed to be re-...
Sorius legius
I have a sore leg. Yes, I can feel your sympathy from here. And it’s not from cycling into work which I did a couple of days ago for the first time this year...
Attempt two
Last year my aim was to hit the 1,000 mile mark on the ole’ bicycle and I managed but a mere 723 miles. It was all going so well right up until the end of su...
Going places
I have itchy feet. That’s as in liking to travel, not a bad case of athletes foot. Just for clarification. Seeing new places and new things makes me happy, a...
Dodge it yourself
“Let there be light” I proclaimed to the empty hallway, and low & behold, there was light. At least for a small period of time until the bulb went POP an...
Burning down the mouse
Now you know I’m not really one to complain. Hey! Enough of the sniggering at the back. Damn kids. But in all honesty I do tend to (or at least try to) avoid...
2007 is fast approaching
Would you Adam n’ Eve it? A week into 2006 already. At the risk of sounding like a stereotypical parent “ Where did the time go?” It seems like just yesterda...
Lottery winner
would claim I had an algorithm. An algorithm so cunning that foxes all over the country were plotting, deep within their their dens, to steal it. And algorit...
Cattle-ytic converters
Looks like those pesky scientists are getting bored again. Having solved all the serious problems in the world they’ve turned their attention to the addition...
Snowballs’ chance in hell
So it hath arrived. The 1st working day of 2006. Shockaroonie. Turns out that I might have supposed to have been in Derby today rather than in the nice, warm...
Happy New Year
Yes, Happy New Year to you all, even if it is like 3 days late. I would like to say I’ve been enjoying a relatively computer-free 2006 so far but unfortunate...
2005
Impending baked goods catastrophe
Now there’s a catchy title if ever I saw one. Just rolls off the tounge. (Rolls, bakers … geddid?). So anyhow, I am sure you are no doubt wondering what appr...
Tis bloody friesian
Bloomin’ typical. Heating breaks down in the office just when it’s coldest. I swear someone up there doesn’t like me. So, not only I am working today, but th...
Ketchup
es, it’s been a while since the last update, and the reason’s not even saucy! (Catch-up, Ketchup, saucy … geddit? Oh, why do I bother?) I shall blame the lac...
Smited
When you get a puncture on the way home from work you’re unlucky. When you get two within the space of a mile you know you’ve somehow pissed off The Big Man....
Gettin’ funky
After another trying week of work (or something like that anyhow) Friday night was taken up by a trip to The Arches to watch a mates band, The Mosa Funk Club...
Horsing around
So, other than being busy at work, what have I been up to? Well … arranging FO stuff with Andy, providing tech support to parents, getting pissed off with bo...
Last man standing
Recently Señor Grisham has had a bit of a mixed bag. The King Of Torts was reasonable, while A Painted House was rather woeful. The last really good Grisham ...