Fliss came visiting to Manchester to the weekend. We had our valentines meal at the Gaucho Grill in a repeat of an earlier date. However this time we came home considerably less stuffed having skipped starters and any extra side dishes. The steak was as ever fantastic.

Saturday was filled …

Fliss is visiting this weekend for a semi-valentines type affair. However I will be having an open house tomorrow afternoon for the rugby. If you want to pop round you need only bring a few beers to aid the viewing on my large 42 inch TV :-)

Well maybe not but are we seeing the first cracks in the facade. I'm not sure how much sincerity Mr Jobs is showing. After all it's not exactly harming the iPod when you can't transfer iTunes purchased songs onto a rival platform. Having said that he makes a valid point …

I achieved two separate and distinct pieces of exercise yesterday. I both played and hour of Badminton with Lucy and then went to the gym in the evening. I was most pleased that maintained a good 15 minute run on the treadmill without falling over in a puffing ball of …

Although my system was mostly up to date after my remote hacking it still required a bit of tinkering. Despite everything else rendering fonts in full anti-aliased glory emacs was failing to find some fonts to display text with. It turns out in the end that it was the only …