I have returned to my clean shaved form. As the mornings get lighter and winter starts to recede I prefer my whole face to take advantage of the additional sunlight. I fairly certain I shall return to bearded form next winter. Today has been clear-out day at work. Much of the activity has been stymied [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
Tenuous Grip
We have just returned from a weekend in the Peak District, ostensibly for walking although we stayed on for extra loafing and a Goose dinner on Sunday. The event is a regular birthday celebration/mass catering event held in various youth hostels near various peaks over the years. This was my second time attending and it [...]
Lost and Found
The mystical JJ Abrams series Lost has entered it’s sixth and final season. I’ve been a long time fan of show and remember spending many evenings discussing episodes with Andy back in Manchester. While many stopped watching the show after concluding the writers where just making stuff up while they went along I’ve stayed loyal. [...]
Zero Food Miles
We currently have 3 large Geese hanging up in our garage. They were locally sourced (from next door) and are slow grown organically fed birds. The only real downside of all this direct food supply is the requirement to pluck and draw them before we can eat them. We are taking them with us to [...]
Thoughts on Java
I’ve been spending the last week hacking around in Java. One of the components of the product I develop is the open source OpenNMS. As I’ve mentioned before it’s been lightly modified by myself to blend in better with our code mainly in the JSP department for it’s web interface. Last week I discovered I [...]
Visitations, apparitions and lack of spirits
We had the slightly odd couple of Lee and TJ visiting the country house this weekend. Lee who hadn’t seen more than the front of the new place since we moved was suitably impressed by scope of the place, probably less so by the even grander plans we have for it. As they arrived late [...]
