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    • November

      • 11/19/07

    • August
      • By yon bonnie banks, and by yon bonnie braes
        08/16/07
        I'm about go off-net for a couple of weeks for another walking holiday. This time it's the West Highland Way, followed by the Great Glen Way hopefully with a climb of Ben Nevis in between. All told we'll probably cover about 200 miles.

        Two weeks without touching a computer

      • Highland Renaissance
        08/03/07
        Jo and I have just got back from a holiday in Inverness to celebrate her birthday. Most of her family live there so I've visited a few times, but something was different on this trip: decent beer.

        On all previous occasions that I've visited I've ended up drinking whisky. No

    • July
      • Starring the Computer
        07/03/07

        A while back I signed up to some free introductory offers with DVD rental companies and, needing to fulfil their requirement of ten or fifteen titles on the list, I went browsing for a web site to tell me which films feature computers (yes, I'm a sad geek, I know). I was suprised to find

    • June
      • Going down, going down now!
        06/22/07
        The server that hosted podquiz.com and jfc.org.uk died last night, and it looks like the hosting company isn't going to get it back any time soon. So much gnashing on teeth and DNS configurations, and everything's been moved to a temporary server elsewhere. There will be more disruption la

    • May
      • Hadrian's Wall
        05/01/07
        I'm off tomorrow to walk Hadrian's Wall. We're doing it in five days, and the weather seems set fair for at least four of those days, so assuming we can find food (shops seem to be quite rare along the course of the wall - I wonder where the Romans got their lunch), all should be well

    • April
      • Google My Maps
        04/17/07

        The My Maps feature in Google Maps is new and exciting. You've been able to do this sort of thing before using the API, and sites like Frapper have grown up around this, but that's all too much effort for most people, including me.

        I've had a quick go at making my own

      • Youtube copyright infringements
        04/04/07
        As a follow up to my list of seven favourite songs, here are some appropriate YouTube videos:


        No luck finding the Aphex Twin track though...

      • Tag
        04/03/07
        I've been tagged. I don't think I'm going to tag anyone else, so I probably fail in my duty, but never mind.

        Anyway, seven favourite songs. Hmm... this changes minute by minute but the current snapshop, in no particular order, is:

      • Welcome to the 21st century.
        04/03/07
        I've finally succumbed. I said I'd never get a cell phone as well, you know...