As part of the Faustian deal that puts our house within a few miles of my place of work I have to occasionally share the pain of Fliss' commute. As she had to be in London pretty early we woke at 5.30 so I could drive her to the …

Wow, the cycle in this morning was hard. A full headwind all the way down the river left me spluttering like wizened old man at the end. Anyway, about last night:

We started the evening with having dinner at the forth floor restaurant at the theatre. Despite the pressures of …

We had Lee visiting our rural idyll over the weekend. It was a fairly relaxed affair with the planned cycling curtailed on Saturday by the prospect of the weather "throwing it down". Instead we adjourned to local pub to generally set the world to rights as is the want of …

Firstly Mephistopheles encounters the EULA, thanks to xkcd.

Public data mash-ups are on the way. The people at Show Us a Better Way have announced their competition winners and funding. I look forward to the data mashing potential. While we are on the subject of politics as it applies to …

While the USA celebrated it's democracy by the election of it's first black president we followed suite the next day by detonating a large quantity of [STRIKEOUT:dark]black powder. Although the Gunpowder Plot was more an attempt at regicide than subverting our fledgling democratic institutions. Still fireworks are fun …