My SIM card is starting to show it's age and refusing to allow my phone to connect to the network. It's not surprising as the thing is fairly old having had it since I first joined T-Mobile. I managed to order a new SIM yesterday throwing only a minor strop …

Well the gruby counter accusations continue over a letter sent by Gordon Brown to offer condolences to a bereaved mother. For all the heat and noise it's generating for the papers, no doubt not helping the poor mother come to terms with her grief, it's become a proxy for a …

I didn't walk into the office today, instead I drove in. This was mainly because I spent a few hours at A&E this morning playing taxi driver to YABT (Yet Another Broken Toe). I'm considering asking for my money back from evolution, surely these vestiges of our tree swinging …

I was all set to fire up the free Spotify client listen to one of the suggested albums from a previous post. I was ready to accept the rather grating adverts every few tracks when I noticed the people at Spotify over a 0.99p day pass which I duly …

Much as I love emacs some of the key combinations it expects of you to a) remember b) use are don't help when your trying to ameliorate the effects of RSI. As I spend an lot of time in compilation mode the following quick win helps:

(define-key compilation-mode-map (kbd "n …