Posted on Mon 29 March 2010 in general • Tagged with climbing, snowdon, walking
The trip up the tallest peak in Wales was a fairly interesting affair. It's certainly not understood by one of our Danish hosts who despite working next to Snowdon has never been up it. Apparently the Danish don't make a habit of walking up hills just for the hell of …
Posted on Sat 27 March 2010 in general • Tagged with mountains, outside
I'm currently stuck in a veritable radio black-spot at the base of Snowdon in Wales. After breakfast we shall strike out for the ascent. The drive up was OK although having been up since 6.45 yesterday morning to ferry various people to various places I was fairly shattered so …
Posted on Sun 21 March 2010 in general • Tagged with 6nations, bike, cycling, manchester, rugby
Today I'm quite achey after Saturday morning's excursion to the top of Alderley Edge . Although the ride to the base of the climb was fairly easy the actual mile of steep ascent defeated me as well as the chain on Fliss' bike. By the time we got up to the …
Posted on Wed 17 March 2010 in general • Tagged with comedy, film, play, review
Last night Fliss and I watched the film version of Michael Frayn's Noises Off. Fliss explained to me that it is a film beloved of theatre technicians due to it's setting, following the goings on behind stage of a dysfunctional group of actors performing a classic English farce. The …
Posted on Wed 17 March 2010 in geek • Tagged with data, emacs, encryption, google, gpg, mutt
As I've been mailing out invites I discovered a minor problem with my data.
My main email client is the fantastically functional mutt. It's terminal based but incredibly flexible. When it comes to mass sorting/searching your email it leaves GUI based clients standing. However now I'm a roving around …