We went to ChrisP’s party last night. Aside from a brief thoughts about how I could have converted my old house to 3 flats it was a fun packed night. Help was provided by the excellent party game Guitar Hero (World Tour). The original guitar now aided by drums, bass and a even a Sing [...]
New Feed: Emacs Stuff
I’ve created a new feed for my emacs related posts (there are more) with an eye to getting it syndicated on Planet Emacs and joining the wider emacs blogging community. Of course this means I’ll have to blog about emacs more often which may throw the “all topics” syndicated livejournal feed people, but they are [...]
Travel Plans
I’m planning a quick visit to Manchester this coming weekend. I should be up Friday evening and will be going to the Stockport Beer Festival on Saturday. Certainly beats Tequila :-/
Bank Holiday Sunshine!
The lead up to the Bank Holiday was pretty good and improved up to the weekend and pretty much held out until this morning’s overcast and grey skies. As far as bank holiday’s go it was pretty atypical We had the first of the two summer Cambridge beer festivals last week. Fliss and I joined [...]
Social Media
I’ve been experimenting with various micro-blogging sites for a week or so seeing if I could understand the hype. I have to say I’m starting to see the things it’s good for. For example I’ve just been notified of the speakers impending resignation not by reading my news feeds but because I follow the Today [...]
Grab Bag of Comments
I’ve had a long series of blog posts percolating in my brain over the last few days which have never made it to fruition due to stuff. I now present those posts in condensed form: House and Home: We have weeded, prepped and planted out our garden. Although we are renting we will most likely [...]