This weekend was busy again… no surprises there really! On Friday evening I was stripping wallpaper in our bedroom, and managed to get it finished! On Saturday, it was a matter of painting for most of the day, but in the evening we were able to go down to Wivenhoe to meet Alex, Elisa, Steve…

Just a quick post to say that I have joined Colchester Linux User Group. I wasn’t aware there was one, but I gather that there wasn’t one until relatively recently. I’ve been wondering about a local LUG for a while, showing support to the free / open-source software community, so I’m glad there is one…

I’ve just noticed that Google Reader now has a new ‘trends’ page. This allows you to see trends about what blogs you’ve been reading, and when. This is the summary from my trends page: “From your 32 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 261 items, starred 0 items, shared 0 items, and emailed…

Well, this weekend was fun. On Friday evening, the A12 near Colchester was closed because a lorry with gas canisters in it caught fire. Unfortunately, it also meant that they closed the railway line… although the line wasn’t closed between Ipswich and Colchester, it still affected my journey home! Last week was pretty bad for…

My car insurance is currently with AA Insurance. AA as in, The AA – the Automobile Association. They sent me a letter through last week to tell me that my insurance is up for renewal, and that they’d found a cheaper quote for me (it looks like they use a variety of insurance companies). They…

This weekend has been fairly productive: we made a start on some decorating! We painted one wall of our bedroom… that may not sound a lot, but it was more breaking the psychological barrier of actually starting. Now we’ve started, I think it will be easier to continue! And it’s all good experience as well.…

I had a good idea recently. I thought I would describe it here to see what other people think. I’m always moaning about the fact that I don’t go and see many gigs. The problem is partially down to the fact that I don’t know when they’re on: I could trawl the ticket-hunting websites, or…

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress version 2.3. Unfortunately this has meant the site being down for a short while (an hour or so) — for some reason, my FTP server was timing out certain connections, meaning that not all of the files uploaded correctly. I’ve resolved the issue now, and everything appears to be working…

Just a quick post tonight… I’ve been looking for a BitTorrent client on Ubuntu for a while now. Ubuntu does come with one, but unfortunately it’s not that great – it’s fine for basic downloading of one torrent at a time, but it’s not so great if you want to do advanced stuff, like download…

This weekend was fairly quiet. On Friday evening we went to Tesco, as we were having my parents round on Saturday so we needed to get some supplies. On Saturday my parents and my sister Alison came round, and we had a BBQ to celebrate their 25th anniversary. There are a few photos of this…