The weekend surprised me a bit. I was expecting a so-so weekend with thunderstorms. In the end we ended up with a pretty good Saturday and a fantastic Sunday.

Fliss celebrated her penultimate bit with board games and general merriment. We have acquired a new game, Hex Hex which I …

Looking back at last years visit by Jeff and Phil I can see the June weather was also a little changeable - I'm hoping it will improve for the weekend. Fliss' dad is currently visiting from the land down under so yesterday afternoon we wondered down to the local riverside drinking …

Apologies in advance for this tech heavy post. I was moved to write it as some friends are doing a crash course in learning Linux. Consider this remote teaching for those that are interested.

Back in the early history of computing software was often built in-situ. Generally programs were distributed …

Last week I went to Fulda in Germany to attend the OpenNMS European User Conference. OpenNMS is an open source network management system which we make fairly heavy use of at work. The conference was an opportunity to catch up on developments in the project and get a sense of …

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It's hard to explain the impact of seeing a few grainy pixels waving at you on a medical monitor stand. While it's a sign of our modern magical times that I can provide people with a picture of …