I thought I’d probably better post up to say what I’ve been up to this bank holiday weekend, before I forget! It’s always a bit of a struggle towards the end of a long weekend because it’s three days I have to remember, as opposed to just two… still. On Friday night, we didn’t do…

Hello there! This is just a quick update to say that the new job is going well… I’ve survived so far! And am also enjoying it (which is always a good thing). It’s been a fairly slow start, but I’m gradually getting into the swing of things. Not work related, but on Saturday we’re going…

This is strange. I finished my old job on Friday: it feels odd to think that I will never have to go back there again, that from now on every morning I’ll be going somewhere different! I think it’s partially the fact that my previous job was the first proper job that I had out…

Ok, this is another techy post, for which I apologise. I thought I should probably mention it, though, because if I mention it now I’ve got no excuse for not remembering it… At work, we migrated our source control to Subversion last October. When the repository was created, it was a Berkeley-DB based repository. The…

I’ve just found a rather nifty plugin for WordPress. It basically inserts an “on this day…” item at the bottom of my posts (on each post page, not on the main page – if you’re looking at the main page, you’ll need to click on the title of the post before you can see it).…

I’ve just read a great article by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N T Wright. It’s a response to Jeffry John’s Easter message, and also “Pierced for Our Transgressions” (a book which I mentioned recently – still haven’t started to read though). I think the response to Jeffry John is excellent. His is quite critical…

Just a quick update about the past few days! At the weekend, we went up to Leeds for a wedding. One of Philippa’s friends from Cambridge was getting married, so we went up to the ceremony (which was in Leeds Cathedral – it’s very nice!), and afterwards to the reception at East Riddlesden Hall. Despite…

I mentioned early that the latest version of Ubuntu Linux (7.04 ‘Feisty Fawn’) has been released, and that I was upgrading to it. Well, I’ve been using it now for a short time, and it seems pretty good. The graphics have been reworked a little bit, there are a few refinements here and there… haven’t…

Max Barry has written a great post on his website advocating Linux. I agree with him 100%… these days I think a distribution like Ubuntu is easier to install than Windows XP (I haven’t used Vista so I can’t comment about it). Speaking of Ubuntu, the latest version was released yesterday. I left mine upgrading…

Yep, it’s that time of the week again folks! What did we get up to this weekend? Not a lot, as it turns out. I’ll skip over most of it. On Saturday we did some shopping during the day. In the evening we watched “Doctor Who”. I did quite enjoy this week’s episodes, I think…