Don’t often post meals, but this evening’s really was a stonker, and dead easy. It’s from Jamie Oliver’s recipe. Take a shoulder of lamb, poke with garlic, shove it in a pan with some veg, chopped toms, and wine, and cook in a low oven for 4 hrs, then shred. It’s going to re-appear in […]

I took (and passed) the Microsoft Certifcation exam 70-480 (HTML5 and CSS3) yesterday. There’s some lovely features of HTML5 and CSS3, but I also messed around with JavaScript during my preparations, and have almost ported my old C sudoku solver to JS, which means I’ll be able to make it available on here again. I […]

When weather conditions are inclement, I notice more than usual the bad drivers on the road. Snow seems to particularly bring out the foolish in people, who think that compacted snow and ice on the road will have no impact on grip, steering, or stopping distances. This morning, for instance, a truck got stuck just […]

So, it’s 2013. Always good to set out some sort of pan for the year, and my ambitions for 2013 are, in no particular order; Continue climbing regularly, 10 times over the year, and improve by a grade (to 6b+,  think). Take a photo got every day. Go to the cinema. Go camping. Cook something […]

As is my habit, edited “highlights” (for want of a better term) of what I wrote on Twitter over the past 12 months. Right, had better make my first Tweet of 2012 a good one. hang on… (Sun 01 Jan 2012) Another engagement at work! And I mean of the marriage variety, not toiletry or […]

Well, last day of 2012. I’ve already reviewed how I did against my ambitions for this year (not too badly), and I’ll look forward to next year when we get there. Year of Tweets to come too (less to choose from this year,  I feel). This year has been notable for being fairly boring. I […]

Way back at the start of 2012 I blogged my ambitions for the year. As I mentioned then, I don’t find the “New Year’s Resolutions” thing at all helpful, and much prefer to identify where I hope to be in 12 months times. All of that said, I had more or less forgotten about this […]

No. 2 Son is at a delightful stage of life – learning new words every day, and eager to try out his enhanced vocabulary. We did fireworks recently, and he watched from inside the house (our reasoning being that cold and loud were not good combinations). His assessment was along the lines of: Bang bang […]

Just a quicky to note that twitter switched off the old school (original) API last night. Where you used to use http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline you now have to use https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statusus/user_timeline I’ve updated the Weatherbot page (and the weatherbot itself) to reflect this change. In case you’re not aware, the Weatherbot is a sort of tutorial into how […]

Week three of the colour challenge is done – all things blue. Back to random photos after this!