Yesterday I finished of what is hopefully the last testing release of the product I’m responsible for, assuming no major problems it will go gold soon. This means I can start on doing some new development work. The thing I’m working on next will be done in a scripting language as basically the task of [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2010
Who got all the laughs
As debates go the whole thing seemed more than a little sterile. The 3 would-be holders of the purse strings post election kept their points so tightly focused it almost had the air of people running through checklists. Although there was a little back and forth between the candidates, usually totally unrelated to the actual [...]
Clinging to the side of a mountain
The trip up the tallest peak in Wales was a fairly interesting affair. It’s certainly not understood by one of our Danish hosts who despite working next to Snowdon has never been up it. Apparently the Danish don’t make a habit of walking up hills just for the hell of it. I guess not having [...]
At the base of the mountain
I’m currently stuck in a veritable radio black-spot at the base of Snowdon in Wales. After breakfast we shall strike out for the ascent. The drive up was OK although having been up since 6.45 yesterday morning to ferry various people to various places I was fairly shattered so sleep cam easily. I suspect after [...]
All downhill after the first climb
Today I’m quite achey after Saturday morning’s excursion to the top of Alderley Edge . Although the ride to the base of the climb was fairly easy the actual mile of steep ascent defeated me as well as the chain on Fliss’ bike. By the time we got up to the Wizard Coffee shop we [...]
Review: Noises Off
Last night Fliss and I watched the film version of Michael Frayn‘s Noises Off. Fliss explained to me that it is a film beloved of theatre technicians due to it’s setting, following the goings on behind stage of a dysfunctional group of actors performing a classic English farce. The film version stars Michael Caine and [...]
Adding Google Juice to mutt
As I’ve been mailing out invites I discovered a minor problem with my data. My main email client is the fantastically functional mutt. It’s terminal based but incredibly flexible. When it comes to mass sorting/searching your email it leaves GUI based clients standing. However now I’m a roving around with a Google Phone the majority [...]
Here comes the Sun
The weather this weekend was a lot nicer, not only sunny but also well on the right side of the thermometer. Fliss and I spent Sunday in front of the Grand Prix going through the wedding spreadsheet and started mailing out the wedding invites. However it’s already become apparent that we’ve not been nearly inventive [...]
Shout out to my bro
Please join me in wishing my brother a happy birthday. I’ll take the oppertunity to pimp his photo blog which people with an interest in photography and photoshop might find quite interesting.
New Keys Please
I’ve finally gotten around to updating my personal GPG key. At the same time I’ve plumbed in the various bits I need into my mail client so it’s a little easier to sign, encrypt, and verify GPG enabled email. Of course the super paranoid will want to check the public key linked to is in [...]
