No, not me — I know I’m not normal! I’m talking about the program “Am I Normal” which aired on BBC2 last night. I managed to catch about the last two thirds of it. This is a brief synopsis of the programme: Dr Tanya Byron explores what some consider the fine line between religious devotion…

Well, it was a less “Weddingy” weekend this time round! On Friday night we helped out at ’21’, a youth group at Fordham for those in school years 7-8 (or something like that). It went pretty well, although I was a little apprehensive because I haven’t done any youth work before at all. We’ll be…

Apparently some of Spike Milligan’s work is “going mobile” – i.e. being released as mobile ringtones, wallpapers etc. In order to celebrate the occasion I decided to post up a few Spike Milligan quotes: Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. Are you going to come along quietly, or am I going to have…

I’ve added caching to this blog using the excellent WP-Super-Cache plugin for WordPress, after reading yesterday’s blog post by Jeff Atwood. I don’t know whether it will make much difference in terms of what you actually notice, but it will at least help out in the extremely unlikely event that this site gets a large…

I don’t know what’s been going on with Firefox lately, but it’s crashed quite a few times. This is unusual – normally it’s pretty rock solid for me: although it’s slower than other browsers, it is at least fairly stable. But the past few weeks, on my work PC it crashes occasionally when I’m trying…

This weekend was quite… “weddingy”. I know that’s not a word, but I just made it up. So there. On Friday night we didn’t have much in the way of weddings to do – Phil was out helping at the Fordham youth group 21, and I … well, I stayed in and didn’t do much!…

The traffic around Colchester during rush hour is getting ridiculous. Take this morning, for example. Time it would take to drive to work without any traffic: 25 minutes Time it took this morning: 1 hour (I set off at 7:45 and got in at 8:45). I just find it really frustrating sitting in traffic, not…

I’ve decided that the time has come for me to stop pretending that I’m any good at web design, and actually bite the bullet and use somebody else’s design skills for once. Fortunately for me, using WordPress there are literally hundreds of available templates you can use for free. I’ve chosen one which I like,…

Well, I suppose it’s time to post up a quick review of what happened last week! Philippa’s parents came up to help us do some decorating – we wanted to do the whole of the spare room in one week. The spare room had previously been rather a bright shade of pink, so we wanted…

Covers of songs, that is to say. In my guitar learning, I’ve been looking out some old songs to play, and I came across Joe’s “committee song” (to the tune of “Can’t take my eyes off of you” by Andy Williams)… it certainly brought back a few memories (“At last Linja’s arrived / at just…