I thought it would be a good idea if I wrote down what’s on my mind at the moment. It should explain why I am defaulting to sad and not happy, why I can seem a little distracted, why I seem not to care about things I used to care about and why I’m not cycling. You can read it and understand why, or you can stop reading and assume I have good reasons. Either way, I don’t want to talk about it other than on this blog: not on facebook, not on twitter, not in real life – please don’t read it if you aren’t happy with that condition. Continue reading An explanation
As I mentioned before, Cerys and I went skiing in Milton Keynes last year while on holiday. We’ve decided to go back in March for my Birthday. I’m also hoping to drag some of my friends along. Continue reading New gear
Generally, the subject of compensation seems to be taboo in this country. This seems to me, at least, to benefit employers rather more than employees. I’m going to break that taboo in this post; obviously you should not read it if you think you might be offended. Continue reading Let’s talk about compensation
…so I may as well join in, and post an opinion of the iPad before I’ve seen or touched it. Continue reading Everyone’s doing it…
As I wrote in a previous post, I have been trying to experimentally determine the control commands you can use with a violet mir:ror. Continue reading Decoding the mir:ror comms protocol
Some time ago, I bought a mir:ror from violet.net. The provided software for Mac and Linux is unfortunately very much beta-quality (which means decidedly flaky for those of you whose only experience of beta software was google mail). So I set out to see what could be done. Continue reading Hacking mir:ror on Linux
As you may have seen on various news sites, the UK is covered in snow at the moment and we aren’t coping well as a civilisation. I usually leave my work computer in the office unless I am planning to work from home the following day, and since the weather forecast on Tuesday was that it would be easy to get to work on Wednesday I did so. Continue reading How to work from home when you don’t have your company computer
I have put the 2010 Formula 1 schedule into a calendar of its own in BusyCal, which is the calendaring application I use on my Mac. BusyCal is then pushing this calendar to my Google calendar account, where I have configured it so that everyone can see it and import it into their calendaring applications. Continue reading F1 2010 Calendar
It’s been an eventful start to 2010. On returning to work, I discovered via a link to a news story in the local paper from the site homepage that my MP has asked the government to boycott the company I work for, IBM UK, because of the changes it is making to its final salary pension schemes. Continue reading Political activism
I have updated the GetGravatar Plug-In for OS X Address-Book that I wrote. The new version is here. If you had installed the old one, you need to shut down Address Book before installing the new one. Continue reading Gravatars plugin updated