We spent a rather spiffy weekend in Paris on the occasion of Fliss’ Mum’s birthday. We were a little out of the centre but in a rather plush penthouse flat kitted out with a full projector based home cinema system as well as a hot tub and roof garden wet-room. I posted a video of [...]
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Poking unexplained holes in reality, for science!
We had a slightly extended weekend as we headed up North to visit friends in Manchester before heading over to the Yorkshire Hippie enclave of Hebden Bridge for Victoriana. This was going to be our last game before our first child arrives. Victoriana is a steam-punk style alternate history LARP game based loosely around Victorian [...]
7 Arena Fights, 1 Quest and a fairly late night…
..have left my a little weary this morning. I spent this weekend at my first full length Odyssey event which gave me a fuller impression of the world than last years quick visit. The arena is still my favourite part of the experience. Certainly as I don’t get much LARP combat these days it’s nice [...]
Flash Looting
As the sun rises on a new day and businesses across the country count the cost of the nights violence we awake to a new phenomena. The technology and social networking that brought us the Flash Mob have now brought us the Flash Loot. When you start hearing some of those involved talk about their [...]
Fliss’ 32 Inch TV
The weekend was both incredibly efficient and lazy in equal measures. We headed into town bright and early at 9:00 in a bid to miss the rather nasty traffic Cambridge inflicts on it’s driving population. I would have cycled were it not I was picking up our new Smart TV for the library. It’s an [...]
Bright Lights, Big City
I took advantage of my proximity to the big city 45 minutes away on the train yesterday. I joined Rich and Al and the growing number of Northern refugees at the Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court. While I’m afforded free entry to most beer festivals courtesy of my CAMRA membership I only got [...]
Perils of bleeding edge
I’ve taken to running the latest emacs from a source tree install. It works well enough and additional modes I use have been liberally ${VC} fetched into my .emacs.d. However there are still a number of packages I’d like to use from Debian’s emacs version agnostic site-lisp directories. I came up with this: ;; Add [...]
Move along, nothing to see here.
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted. I make a conscious effort not to post general household news in favour of things that stimulate debate and comments. I hope that my writings end up being interesting to someone even if it is only me reviewing these posts in the future. However the gap between [...]
