I hate colds. I seem to be suffering a string of the infernal viruses this year which is really getting in the way of my training. Certainly it's making it very hard to drag myself out of bed in the morning for my runs. I can go to the gym …

I only noticed Desk Bar when I was installing Ubuntu on my new work machine. It's dam useful. It provides pretty much everything I wanted from Beagle plus an easy way to launch all sorts of queries and applications. I particularly like the way it integrates with your del.icio …

I managed to fit a lot into my London weekend.

The journey down was uneventful aside from my dribbling nose which still seems to be some sort of hay-fever related thing. As I left later in the day I decided some recreational hacking was in order so I spent it …

I had real difficulty getting to sleep last night. I'm not sure if it was the wine at the meal or if I'm coming down with another lurgy. By 6am I decided to give up and got up early and headed into work. I spent most of the day fighting …

As Lee noticed by how early I logged on I went for a run this morning. However I was running the risk of working another late stint this evening so I was glad when some work colleagues invited me out for a swift drink down Sinclairs. In a bid to …