Mark and Helen came around to support England on wide-o-vision. I was quite happy with the result although I'm sure we are going to have to play a lot better in the next game.

You have to hand it to the Irish, despite watching a rather crushing defeat by the French in the rugby it didn't dampen their spirits. We stayed in O'Sheas after the match and enjoyed the band until we eventually left around half one in the morning. We caught up with …

We entered Pizza mode this week to crunch through the 25 or so bugs that are currently gating the Beta release. By the end of Tuesday we'd gotten down to zero critical bugs and it looked good for another release candidate on Wednesday and I'd get home in time to …

Today is going to be a gentle one methinks. Fliss and I went paint-balling yesterday to celebrate Karl's (of Phil and Karl) birthday. Most of the 24 strong group ended up on one team playing a bunch of teenagers who seemed shocked at how we kept beating them. Of course …

In between a night in Knutsford, impromptu dinner party with cards and a visit from Lee last night I have been mostly going on trips to the dump.

As Fliss is moving in at the beginning of next month we thought it would be a good time to get junk …