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…

The observant among you may notice that my site now has a new design (well, you will have if you’re not looking at this site through some kind of blog feed reader). I don’t really know whether it’s an improvement on the old one, I just did it for two reasons: (1) fixed-width layouts are…

I’ve noticed recently quite a few screenshots of web pages which seem to be very long, i.e. they are of the web page in its entirety, not just the viewable area (I’m very bad at explaining things: basically, what I mean is, if you have to scroll down a web page to see it, then…

Host: “The first rule of robot club is: you do not talk about robot club! The second rule of robot club is, you DO NOT talk ab– wait, I got that wrong. The second rule of robot club is, no smoking. Tim (to Mike): Why aren’t we allowed to smoke? Mike: shhhh! We’re not supposed…