I was quite excited to see a story on the BBC about the discovery of some 700,000 year old flint tools on a site in Britain. I thought, wow, we’ve been on this beautiful island for at least 700,000 years!
Then I realised that, whilst neothilic man was skinning a water vole down in Suffolk, the […]
I mentioned earlier that I was thinking of buying a Mac Mini. Well, last week, I bit the bullet and ordered one from the Apple store. I went for the 1.5GHz model with 1Gb of RAM. It arrived on Monday, delivered to my workplace as I wouldn’t be in at home to sign for it. […]
Excuse me while I blow the dust off this weblog, it’s been a while since I last posted.
There is no excuse for my silence, I have simply been too busy for inspiration to take hold.
The week before last was spent learning about ASP.Net on a course in Leeds. The course was way too slow […]
I am one person living in a one bedroomed flat, yet I still managed to find eleven different clocks to set back to GMT this morning. Eleven! The only thing I didn’t have to change was my computer. I synchronise it automatically with an NTP (network time protocol) server on the internet, so it’s always […]
According to an article by Robert Sapolsky, your openness to new types of music dies a death at about the age of 35. Thereafter you stick to listening to the same old stuff over and over again.
To my horror, I realise that this means I only have five years left! I’d better devote some […]
Today is Thursday. Or so I am reliably informed. I’ve spent all day thinking it was Wednesday.
At five o’clock today a work colleague told me he was visiting another site tomorrow, so would see me on Monday.
“Oh,” I said, “aren’t you in on Friday then?”
He gave me a strange look and said, “tomorrow […]
One of my responsibilities at work is administering our intranet. Amongst my many other tasks, I add the weather forecast for today and tonight to the staff page - the forecast is pilfered from the BBC, but don’t tell anyone.
One day last week, the evening forecast was mysteriously missing. So I made up a […]
Ah, what a beautiful sight. We take the Ashes after the best test series that I have ever seen. Well done England and well played Australia.
I have found conclusive proof that the world has gone mad. Yesterday, I called into Asda to buy a few vegetables. Specifically, I needed some peppers. Careful study of the fruit & veg display revealed Asda were offering a pack of three peppers for £1.28, or a bag of five peppers for £0.78.
The bags of […]
Just to be clear, I do not work for the armed forces nor the Ministry of Defence. Nor am I a mercenary. In fact, I don’t work in anything that could ever be mistaken for the military. Yet somehow I’ve wound up on a mailing list for suppliers of “defence” equipment. For evidence, here is […]