Apologies for the lateness of this post, and the techy ones before it… I thought I should probably post a quick summary of the weekend! On Friday night we went to see “The Simpsons Movie”. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, as short TV shows don’t always translate well to the big screen. But…

Apologies for making two techy posts in one day, but I’ve just come across a problem which I think it might be good to post up in case it helps anyone else. As I mentioned in the last post, I’ve been using MySQL-Python to connect to MySQL using … you guessed it, Python! Anyway. Long…

It seems that the past couple of days I’ve had to spend a fair bit of time working with programming languages beginning with the letter ‘p’: At work last week, I wrote my first ever perl script. Our client had asked for a script which parsed a CSV file and inserted the data into a…

I’m just reading through “The Twilight of Atheism” by Alister McGrath. It’s a very good book – I’m only 3/4 of the way through it, but I would definitely recommend it! One thing which he said that I found very interesting is that protestantism indirectly created circumstances in which atheism was able to thrive. I…

I’d just like to apologise in advance to anyone who has already heard this story… I’m afraid I did rant in person to a few people! But I thought it was probably worth posting up here as well. You know, just in case anyone hadn’t heard it. Because it’s worth hearing. Yeah. So. I mentioned…

So… what did we get up to this weekend, then? “Not a whole lot” is the astonishing answer to that question! On Friday night we went out to the Rose & Crown on East Street for a drink, which was nice 🙂 On Saturday, we went to the recycling place to get rid of all…

I’ve just heard that we won’t have the internet until next Wednesday (25th). That’s a bit longer than I’d hoped for really… can anyone explain to me exactly what it is that takes so long about provisioning ADSL? I mean, seriously, it takes absolutely bloomin’ ages to get a DSL line enabled… what are they…

I haven’t filed this one under “The Weekend” because it was a very unusual weekend! On Friday night, we dropped a few things off at the new house – mainly the expensive stuff (computer, hi-fi, decks, TV etc). Afterwards we went back home and did some more packing (fun fun fun! — I never want…

Just a quick update to say that we are moving house tomorrow. This, amongst other things, means that we will probably be without the internet for a few days, so I may not get the chance to update here much. This also means that we will have a new phone number as well, once we…

As some of you may know, unless you have iTunes installed you can’t use an iPod whilst it’s plugged in to a computer. As it charges through the USB connection, effectively this means you can’t listen to an iPod while it’s charging up. This is annoying! I did think about installing iTunes, but to be…