Social Wars

Posted on Fri 23 September 2011 in geek • Tagged with facebook, google, plus, social networking

Well it seems the next major technology war has kicked off on the web. Google has opened up its beta social service to all and sundry. At the same time Facebook have had another major face lift and announced their intentions to become a content hub for the Internet.

For …


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org-mode and clocking in

Posted on Tue 20 September 2011 in geek • Tagged with clocks, emacs, org-mode, time

I've recently started using org-mode's time tracking to keep track of what I spend my time doing at work. This was in response to being asked by one of my managers what I spend my time doing and basically being forced to guess.

Setting up a clock page is …


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Weekend Rugby

Posted on Mon 19 September 2011 in general • Tagged with rugby, rwc2011

While last weekend involved a hilarious last minute rush to get a proxied ITV player working while in Paris this weekends England game just involved getting up at 6.50 on a Sunday morning. As some have pointed out I am not yet a Dad so this early awakening on …


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Ministry of Nanny

Posted on Tue 13 September 2011 in general • Tagged with babies, breasts, feeding, parentcraft

We had our third and final Parent Craft lesson tonight which covered everything from 3rd stage labour to breast feeding and bathing. Most of it was useful stuff and it was nice to be able to ask some questions of the trained midwives. However the section on breast-feeding could do …


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We'll always have Paris

Posted on Tue 13 September 2011 in general • Tagged with babies, parenting, paris

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 …


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