This weekend turned out to be rather busy! On Friday evening, we had our ‘Clerks’ night. That was good fun, the Clerks films are great (if not for the faint hearted!). On Saturday, we did a bit of shopping in the morning, and in the evening went round to Wivenhoe to see the Eurovision with…

We watched Eurovision on Saturday night. It was quite good fun… I’m not sure I’d like to do it more than once a year, though! However, just to be controversial I thought I’d post up a rant about it… What is the point of Eurovision? As far as I can tell, it exists for the…

Not much to say really, I just thought I haven’t updated that much recently so I’ll just post up a quick one to let you know what’s going on (or not!). I’ve updated the links section with a few additional links. If you don’t know it already, check out XKCD (under the ‘others’ section), it’s…

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…