This weekend was mostly taken up with Saturday’s welcome home BBQ and party for Fliss’ sister who has just returned from travels. I headed over to Fliss’ Mum’s on Friday night to join Fliss who had already prepared a small metric load of food for the bash. We chilled to the rather silly Blades of …
It speaks volumes about how much Labour believe in themselves that they put a candidate up for Henley, one of the safest Tory seats in the country but won’t for Haltemprice and Howden. It’s odd logic because there, with the Lib Dems stepping aside, they arguably stand a good chance of beating Davies on a …
Well the moderators have finally got back to me on my previously mentioned blog comment. The “reason” was: Comments posted to BBC blogs will be removed if they are considered likely to provoke, attack or offend others; are racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable; are considered to have been posted with an …
My all together wonderful other half is one year older, temporarily narrowing the yawning gap between us. We’ll be in London tonight celebrating. Hopefully the first of many quick jaunts to the city now we live considerably closer. I get to try out my Network Rail Gold card which I get on a account of …
This launch is interesting. Together with Linux this will make the majority of cell phone platforms “open”*. I’m unsure if this was coming anyway (Nokia having some FLOSS sympathies) or as a catch up reaction to Google’s Android platform. Certainly having an open platform makes it easier to get developer mind-share which is important when …
I got my current job based on my experience with C/C++ and GTK. So far most of the code I’ve been writing has been perl and Java. Some times I think I’m writing too much perl: # Quick and dirty match for IP (but without the tedious address # verification) my $ip_match=qr#([\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3})#i; The tedious address …
I attempted a slightly more scenic route into work this morning to give the cycle a little more meaning. Apart from the one tree blocking the path it was a nice pleasant ride in. Of course I’m now sat in the office being hot and sweaty but I guess that means I’ve burnt some calories. …
You may have spotted a theme in my witterings over the last few weeks with my references to democracy and the importance of participation in it. All to often politics is conducted at megaphone level with the media and the press filtering (and molding) the message of the man/women on the street and the politicians …
Despite less the glowing reviews we thought we would chance Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the cinema. It’s not the worlds worst film, in fact if you disengage brain and enjoy it for what it is I thought it was pretty good. Some people have complained about the mixing of …
There is a nice piece in the Gruniads Comment is Free section on the disconnect between the mainstream media and the rest of the world. Of course it’s very hard from here to tell if “user-generated” content is as representative as the main stream media says it is not. However its great when people can …