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…

Apologies for being rather lax this week and not posting up my regular “The Weekend” post until now! I’ve been rather busy … on Friday, we completed on our house purchase! For those of you unfamiliar with the house buying process, “exchanging contracts” means when you have committed to buying the house – “completing” means…

There are many reasons why I like Linux. I came up with a brilliant example of how it is the best today, though: the past few weeks, I’ve been uploading some sermons onto the Fordham Website. What I had been doing was ripping the CDs to hard disk [sermons are recorded directly at the church…

Last week, Anne-Marie showed us a video on YouTube from a TV show called “Big Train”, with Simon Pegg and Mark Heap (amongst others). It’s absolute classic: The Tom Henderson sketch (WARNING: contains some profanity) There’s plenty more Big Train stuff there if you search for “Big Train”… I’ve ordered the DVD, I will report…

Sorry about the slow updates recently… we’ve been busy packing! It’s quite a slow task, especially when you have to wrap fragile items up with bubblewrap, but we’re getting there. I’m quite glad we left ourselves a couple of weeks though – when you only have evenings, a couple of weeks isn’t really very long!…

I’ve decided to start up a new blog. Well, technically it’s an old blog, but it’s not really been used much up until now: Phill’s J2EE Blog. Because I do J2EE for a living, and I do occasionally want to make posts about it, I thought it would be a good idea to start up…

So… it’s time for another “The Weekend” post. On Friday evening, we … didn’t do very much really! On Saturday, we went into town in the morning to do a bit of shopping, and then in the afternoon we headed out to Currys to buy a washing machine! The sellers of the house we’re buying…

I’ve just had a quick look at Google Guice (Guice is pronounced like ‘Juice’). It’s a dependency-injection framework, similar to the Spring Framework[1]. However, it does have some differences. My initial thoughts on this I’ve tried to vaguely collate below. I apologise if I’m not making much sense, it might be better if you have…