Every New Year I try and do a little blog post about the year that’s past, and sometimes look forward to the one to come. This year has been interesting precisely because it has been almost entirely boring! No (family) births, deaths, or marriages (although Penguin’s wedding almost counts). No job or career changes. No […]

Well, I’ve taken the plunge and added the facility to comment on this ‘ere blog. To be honest I’m not sure how robust it is. Although I have written a “mathma” that asks you to solve simple arithmetic to prove that you’re not a robot, which was fun. I don’t yet have a nice webby […]

There’s a part of me that wishes I was a teenager now, in the age of Facebook. And there’s a part of me that’s glad I’m not. When I was a young lad, I used to fall in love at the drop of a hat, and be utterly and totally besotted with various young ladies […]

Had out first visit of the Tooth Fairy on Monday night. The boy’s first tooth came out, and that most magical of creatures visited and placed a coin under his pillow while he slept. It got me thinking about pocket money. I remember one talk I heard by John Wimber when he was talking about […]

I’ve been chatting with friends recently about job satisfaction, and it’s actually quite hard to put my finger on what it is. Several people love their jobs, others are sick to the back teeth. It’s easy enough to identify highs and lows of any given job (and every job has both). It’s also easy enough […]

About this time last year, I finally called time on the inkjet printing thing, and moved solely to laser. To be exact the Samsung ML-1440, which has done us proud for it’s 8,850 pages. In fact, if it were possible to get parts for it still, I probably wouldn’t have changed it.. But change it […]

Eight years ago I was at a BMVC conference in Manchester for the week. I had been browsing an art gallery(!), and wandered out and switched on my phone. Text message from my supervisor, saying he was in the Wetherspoons Pub. This in itself was a bit weird, as he would never normally willingly enter […]

I’m working on a little theory about why we watch television, or rather what we watch what we watch. This comes from two observations – firstly the popularity of soaps, which I completely fail to grasp, and secondly the shows that my 5-year old likes to watch. I should add that I’m excluding programmes that […]

I feel like I need to make some comment on the passing of a pop icon. Unfinished Christian likens his death to that of Elvis or Lennon. I don’t think there’s very much doubt he was one of the world’s biggest pop-stars, certainly at his peak. I suppose I would sum up my feelings as […]

I was very brave last night – I flashed my router with a firmware I’d hexedited! I’ve got a Buffalo WYR-G54, which was very cheap, but has essentially does the job of connecting me to the Internet with wireless to boot. One of it’s big plusses is that it routes the external IP from inside, […]