Merry Christmas from somewhere in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. We’re heading towards Cuba. We arrive there tomorrow morning for a four day stay. We’re all hoping that Castro doesn’t die in the next few days – as that could apparently be a bit of a problem for tourists in the country.
Month: December 2006
A Mystery
Yesterday, following a series of confusions that may never be adequately explained, we ended up having a very nice dinner in Barbados with my step-mother-in-law (is that a real term?) During the meal, she mentioned that at some point earlier in the year she had met someone who knew me. Someone who worked in computers.… Continue reading A Mystery
Cruising
I’m writing this from a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Net access is (understandably) patchy – we’re sharing a 64k pipe with all the ship’s official data traffic – so I haven’t kept as in touch as I hoped that I would. We’ve been to Gibraltar and Madeira and for the last… Continue reading Cruising
7th Heaven
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine acted in a couple of episodes of the American television show 7th Heaven. At the time she told me that there was no danger of it ever being shown in the UK as it was a very American show and British audiences would hate it. But… Continue reading 7th Heaven
No Comment
Ok, I haven’t had the time to get the authorised commenting working correctly with the new version of MT. And allowing everyone to comment was just leading to an effective Denial of Service attack on this server. So I’ve disable comments on this blog until I get back from holiday and can spend time looking… Continue reading No Comment
Swings & Roundabouts
Over the weekend, we got the final details through about the holiday. A couple of things had changed. Some were better and some were worse. The flight has switched from Heathrow to Gatwick. That’s closer to us, so that’s good. But it’s switched from BA to EasyJet. That’s bad. The flight is now about five… Continue reading Swings & Roundabouts
New Planet – Doctor Who
I’ve just put Planet Doctor Who live. It aggregates stuff that it can find about Doctor Who (and Torchwood). If you can recommend good RSS feeds that it should include, then please let me know. Obviously it has web feeds. Choose from RSS or Atom. Oh, and there’s also an OPML file.