London Travels

Posted on Tue 03 April 2007 in general

It was a familiar Monday evening homecoming after spending a weekend away. I spent the usual 30 minutes cleaning away stuff in the kitchen so I could prepare my food. I shall have to be give Andy another lesson in "tidying stuff away when you're finished with it" and a …


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What's in a word?

Posted on Fri 30 March 2007 in general

I went out last night for Gillian's leaving bash. Saw a lot of people I haven't seen for a while given how busy my weekends have been of late. It was especially good to catch up with Katie and discuss what it's like being a student again. There was a …


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Historical

Posted on Tue 27 March 2007 in general

Apparently it's been a pretty good day over the water. It's great that the two democratically elected parties have decided to get on with it. Having said that I can't help but feeling a little like the chap on Dateline London who's principle comment was the rest of the UK …


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Procrastination

Posted on Sat 24 March 2007 in general

This morning has been mainly about putting off the inevitable. Not only did I watch BSG, 2 episodes of Lost (sorry Andy you need to catch up), and spend a while fiddling with ogmcat to re-blend some mixes onto my portable music player. In the end I couldn't put off …


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And relax...

Posted on Fri 23 March 2007 in general

It all seemed to go surprisingly well. I was preceded by James' rather interesting talk on planning for failure at Google. It was suggested that they might actually have the data to prove if there was a correlation between random data errors and solar flare activity. I wondered if correlating …


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