This weekend turned out to be fairly quiet, for a change! On Friday evening we helped out at ’21’, which went well. On Saturday we went out to a BBQ at Roy and Janette’s (friends from home group). Afterwards we headed over to Wivenhoe to watch the new Doctor Who (“The Doctor’s Daughter”). It was…

By the end of this week, I will have been to three Barbecues: one on Bank Holiday Monday, one at work today, and one tomorrow at some friends from church. It seems like summer has arrived – or at least, the “pre-summer” we have which tends to be better than the actual summer. Still, I’m…

I always struggle a little when writing a “The Weekend” post after a bank holiday weekend: three whole days to talk about? I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning! (Kelloggs Fruit & Nut by the way. Just so you know). But I’ll give it a go. On Friday evening, Rich and…

Just a bit of site news: I have removed the “DJ Stuff” section of this website, because it was basically useless and hadn’t been updated in ages. I don’t really do DJing any more, so it was a bit useless to have the section up on the website. In other news, I’ve been having a…

Well, Ubuntu 8.04 has been released, and I’ve just upgraded to it! There was one “gotcha” during the installation, which hopefully will help people if I blog about it: Once I’d completed the upgrade (which I did via the usual update manager), the machine rebooted and came up with the login screen. I logged in…

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…