I spent a large part of the weekend at the Cambridge Treasure Trap end of term banquet. The format is a cross between a full weekend of club LARP and a day event with a Céilidh tacked on the end.

Most of the Cambridge TT event are effectively day events …

I spent most of Saturday hunting a neutral wire fault in the downstairs lighting circuit with my Dad. It was the reason the side lighting in our living room wasn't working and it turned out it was the "spare" wire we found when replacing the ceiling rose in the same …

I thought I might just mention the current state of the development for Edit with Emacs. A number of useful contributions have come in but I want to be able the "incremental edit" feature in the elisp edit server. I had a go but got stuck (marvel at hack in …

The government has done another public spending data dump today. It's one of the policies that I was really in favour of before the election and it's good to see the coalition holding to it's word with this release. The raw data is available from the Cabinet Office and should …

We went up to Manchester last weekend to complete Fliss' much delayed hen night. The ladies reported having much fun partaking in a combination of tea and gambling.

I took the opportunity to go on a short tour of some of Manchester's many fine ale houses. It was nice to …