Alex's Adventures on the Infobahn

So far the visit to my folks has involved a long drive down to Cambridge. Followed by beer and wine. A long walk in the country side. Followed by ale. A minor re-engineering of the BBQ. Shortly followed by some more beer. The weather down here is proving to be particularly fine so I’m off [...]

It is 9.00am and I’m in the office at work. “What!” I hear you gasp, “what have you done with the real Alex?”. Unfortunately this isn’t part of a new working schedule but due to me pulling a muscle in my back while at work yesterday evening. I couldn’t find a comfortable position in bed [...]

Today’s Penny Arcade pretty much nails a lot of the feelings I have about MMORPG’s. I think it is worth reading Tyco’s commentary as well. While we are on the subject of monetising online services it was refreshing to see this article on the BBC talking people realising the limitations DRM places on them as [...]

I have returned from the Whitby weekend. I enjoyed it a lot although it was a lot more chilled compared to last November. The weather behaved itself and it was nice getting about and chatting to people. I did a little experimentation with hair styles, a short run, and brought some clothes to. All in [...]

I’m all packed for Whitby and am just waiting for the rest of the household to catch up before driving up. I’ve decided against taking the Frock Coat again because it is very impractical and hot. As a result this weekend I shall be mainly going for the Cyber look. I have packed my running [...]

I’ve just been playing with Google’s new local search and map service. However I didn’t realise until today you could get access to a load of their services via SMS instead of using fiddling about with WAP. The killer app of course is being able to query Froogle while in the shops. Happy Geek EDIT: [...]

Hmmm, just gave Political Survey 2005 a spin. It has my vote split between the Green’s and the Tory’s. I’m fairly left wing on some subjects, and very right wing on others. Basically I’m conflicted.

I went running with Sheila and some of her friends last night. For a change of venue we ran a few laps around Platt Fields. I was quite pleased to finish the 3 laps which worked out at about 8.2km. This is by far the longest run I’ve done in training so far. It certainly [...]

I got a difficult phone call from Glyn’s sisters yesterday. They were calling to let me know they were going to intern his ashes with his father instead of scattering them in Amsterdam. I’m not sure how I feel about this. The first thing is say there is not a lot I can do about [...]

Being the designated driver at Mufi’s birthday do last night meant I got a good nights sleep including dreaming of Skiing. However as I was doing pretty badly I woke up and went for a run instead. I didn’t finish by planned distance given my left leg was getting quite tense. I’m not sure why [...]