The lead up to the Bank Holiday was pretty good and improved up to the weekend and pretty much held out until this morning's overcast and grey skies. As far as bank holiday's go it was pretty atypical :-)

We had the first of the two summer Cambridge beer festivals last …

I've been experimenting with various micro-blogging sites for a week or so seeing if I could understand the hype. I have to say I'm starting to see the things it's good for. For example I've just been notified of the speakers impending resignation not by reading my news feeds but …

I've had a long series of blog posts percolating in my brain over the last few days which have never made it to fruition due to stuff. I now present those posts in condensed form:

House and Home: We have weeded, prepped and planted out our garden. Although we are …

I went to a embedded conference today (re: sales pitch). It's been awhile since I've been exposed to salesperson snake oil but I thought it would be useful to see what the state of the art in the embedded world was like. All in all it was a useful event …

I finally got tethering working on between my netbook and mobile phone. Tethering is the process where you use your 3G mobile phone as a "modem" for you laptop to surf on the move. It's also something the mobile phone providers hate as they would like to sell you a …