There’s a strange meme going round that today is the last “binary date” for a hundred years. I’m not sure where it came from but a couple of people have repeated it on Twitter over the last couple of days. A binary date is one which is made up completely of ones and zeroes. So… Continue reading Binary Dates
Category: life
Humphrey the Happy Hippy Tortoise
Round these parts the period between christmas and new year is a time for turning the house upside down and trying to get rid of most of the rubbish that we’ve accumulated over the previous twelve months. My part in that is often going through the piles of paperwork in the study, filing the stuff… Continue reading Humphrey the Happy Hippy Tortoise
Not Dead
I know it’s been very quiet round here, but I’m still here. I’ve just been off on holiday for a couple of weeks. I was cruising around the Baltic. There will be stories and photos arriving soon. I just need a couple of days to get a bit more organised.
A Life Well Documented
Recently I realised that two seemingly completely different projects were, in fact, both facets of the same project. They both led me to putting more detail about my history into web sites and (once they are complete) this will mean that my life will become far better documented. The first project started when I dug… Continue reading A Life Well Documented
More on uSwitch
The people at uSwitch saw yesterday’s blog post and were rather pleased that I was so happy with their service. To show their thanks, they’ve written to me with an offer for my readers. If you use this link to visit their site and change energy supplier before the end of June 2009, they will… Continue reading More on uSwitch
Buying Power
How do you buy your power? Or, more specifically, how do you decide which company to buy your power from? Here’s how I do it. Ever six months or so I go to uSwitch and spend five minutes researching who does the cheapest gas and electricity for our usage. If I find something that is… Continue reading Buying Power
Boxing Day Walk
I know I’m about five years later than everyone else in discovering the joys of a GPS receiver, but I’m really enjoying having one in my G1. Here’s our Boxing Day afternoon stroll around Tooting Common. More details on the InstaMapper web site. We saw parakeets. I’ve known there are wild parakeets on the common… Continue reading Boxing Day Walk
Breaking Radio Silence
It’s been a bit quiet round here for the last week or so. Sorry about that. I was busy in other areas. I spent the last week in Copenhagen, speaking at YAPC::Europe. Over four days I gave three short talks and a full day training session. It good to catch up with a number of… Continue reading Breaking Radio Silence
Anniversaries
It’s been a week of anniversaries. Wednesday was the tenth anniversary of the first London.pm meeting. And last night we had our tenth anniversary meeting. But for me personally, today is an even bigger anniversary. It was twenty years ago today that I started my first “real” job. I hope you won’t be too bored… Continue reading Anniversaries
Confusing Question
We were at our usual weekly pub quiz last night. One of the questions was this: Who is the current captain of the Starship Enterprise? I have to confess being rather confused by this question. Given that Star Trek is set two hundred (or so – I’m not a big fan, I don’t know the… Continue reading Confusing Question