So following on from Gillian's bash on Friday night I struggled out of bed at some point on Saturday to head into town. I gave my credit card monkey a serious spanking getting bits and pieces for skiing next week. I also brought some more fiction, although I made an …

Went out to Gillian's birthday bash last night. It was a good night although everything hurts now. I met a few new people, apologised to a few others (from Wendyhouse ;-) and generally was social. I'm sure the manic dancing will more than make up for the lack of Gym yesterday …

In theory. Got the tickets for my skiing holiday at the end of next week. The problem with knowing I'm off on holiday again combined with having tricky programming problems to deal with is its hard for me to get into my coding "zone". And if I'm not in the …

I cooked for The Mealtm last night. It seemed to go quite well although my attempts at shifting the left over snack-age from NYE as some sort of starter where quickly spotted. I'm glad I didn't fall back on one of my standard meals and tried something new. I …

I was reading an article by rms (to non tech heads Richard M Stallman, father of the Free Software Foundation) asking what next for the "community". Its worth a read if you've ever wandered why I ignore suggestions to "download wibbletech for free from the web site".

Now I'm by …