There has been a slightly disturbing trend recently. Firstly, I hear Ronin Keating’s version of “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls. Then, just now, on the radio I heard a very familiar song come on: “Don’t Stop Me Now”, by Queen. Except it wasn’t performed by Queen, it was McFly. Nothing particularly wrong with that…

Well, it’s been almost a year since I migrated to Linux. I’d experimented with Linux in the past, but I’d always gone back to Windows fairly soon after! So, how has the year gone? What are the good and the bad points? Well, I don’t really have time to do more than a quick review.…

Well, it’s that time of the week again! Yep, another “The Weekend” post 🙂 On Friday night, we didn’t do very much at all. On Saturday, we did quite a lot … our furniture from Homebase arrived (yay!). So I spent a couple of hours putting it up. Both items (a bookshelf and a cupboard)…

There’s one thing about Linux I don’t like. In Linux, you’ve got two big graphical desktop environments — one is called Gnome, and the other is called KDE (there are others, but those are probably the biggest at the moment). This is all good, because it gives people a greater choice. If you prefer the…

I’ve categorised this post as a “the weekend” post, although actually I think you already know most of it 🙂 On Saturday, we had a new hi-fi arrive 🙂 I’d ordered it the previous week in town. It’s comprised of a Marantz amplifier and CD player, and a set of speakers from Monitor Audio. Although…

It’s been a fairly busy week for me! Monday night I didn’t do much – Philippa was out for dinner with some of her work colleagues, and I just stayed in. On Tuesday, we went to steak night with the chaplaincy people (Alex, Chris B, Anne-Marie, Alison and Joan). Afterwards we went round to Alex’s…

Quick post… I know I’ve been fairly quiet on the DJing front the past couple of months. Well, fear not. The past couple of weeks I’ve bought a bunch of DnB records. The world hasn’t seen the last of DJ Phill S yet… 😉

Well, firstly, I suppose I’d better tell you lot what I got up to this weekend. Well. On Friday, it was Philippa’s graduation. We both took the day off and met up with Phil’s parents for her graduation. It was a really good ceremony — I think I enjoyed it more than I did my…

It’s hot. It’s incredibly hot. In fact, it’s record breaking hot. Still, I have managed to survive thus far — and I take comfort in the fact that people in other countries manage to survive higher temperatures 🙂 Anyway. I’ve just watched “Family Guy – Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.” I have to say I…

Today has been an exceedingly hot day. At least, it has been in our office. For some reason our office is particularly warm, which means that it gets uncomfortably hot in this kind of weather. We seriously need some air conditioning in there… I have a feeling I’m not going to get much work done…