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I only write occasionally here now, as you will see. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, which are all still accessible.

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  • Past few days

    Sorry I haven’t written much recently – it wasn’t the most fantastic weekend for me: on Thursday evening, as I was driving back home, my power steering went AWOL. I managed to get home OK, but driving a car which is meant to have power steering without power steering is actually quite difficult. This meant…

  • Is it just me…

    … or does Internet Explorer’s “ClearType” facility only serve to make things less clear? I actually find it more difficult to read plain text in IE7 than in Firefox (or other browsers). Maybe it’s just my screen (and yes, I know you can turn ClearType off although it’s on by default), but it just seems…

  • Christian song lyrics

    Some of you may know that Philippa and I are currently doing part of a theological course called the “Moore Course”, which involves meeting up every other Wednesday evening and going through the material. Anyway, during our last meeting we somehow managed to end up talking about lyrics Christian songs. Not so much the actual…

  • Weekly Overview

    Firstly, I apologise for not updating much this week. We’ve had the week off, and so I’ve been out and about a bit more than I usually would! Secondly, and finally, here is an overview of the week (aren’t I nice?) I would also like to point out that I can’t remember everything we did…

  • The past few days…

    Yes, it’s another “The Weekend” post, except that I didn’t entitle it “The Weekend” 🙂 So… what have we been up to the past few days? Well. On Saturday (note that I skipped Friday evening this time — although having said that, Philippa did go and see “Miss Potter” which was apparently very good), we…

  • WordPress Version 2.1

    Just a quick note to say that I have upgraded this blog to WordPress Version 2.1. I would list some of the new features and stuff here, but to be honest you might as well just visit that link and look at it for yourself! Suffice it to say that I think WordPress upgrades are…

  • Chillout!

    So… I was thinking the other day. I’ve listened to a lot of good classical music lately (all on CD unfortunately, although we are going to see the University of Essex Choir tomorrow, well actually ‘today’ by the time this post gets published…) Anyway. I got round to thinking about some of these classical chillout…

  • Joining the 21st Century at last…

    So, I finally got around to installing PHP5 today. Shock!!! Horror!!! It’s been around for absolutely ages. I installed it when I was still using Windows (yes, that is quite a long time ago!). When I installed Linux and wanted to get a web server installed, I decided to use PHP4 because that was what…

  • The Weekend

    I thought it was about time I had a “The Weekend” post, because I haven’t actually posted one in ages. Well, maybe not ages, but it feels like it! So… what did we get up to at the weekend? The answer to that is “not a lot”. On Friday evening, we didn’t do very much.…

  • I have succumbed (part two)

    I’m now on Facebook. Yes, I know, two social / networking sites in two months! Ah well. I’ve added a few people as friends, but I don’t really know who’s on there so if you’re on Facebook and are reading this, drop me a friends request on there and I’ll add you 🙂 (Unless, of…