It was the office Christmas party last night! It came in the form of a meal down at the Peacock Inn in Chelsworth (a fairly remote location about ten minutes drive away from where we work). Philippa and I went together. It was good to have a meal with everybody – and it was a…

Well, yesterday was the winter equinox — the shortest day of the year! It’s all upwards for the next six months: it should gradually start getting lighter and lighter! Although we still have to put up with January and February (February in particular being one of the most depressing months of the year), at least…

Last night I went out for dinner with a whole bunch of people. Philippa’s sister Roz is staying for a couple of days, and Phil wanted her to meet some of our friends so invited a few people out for dinner. We all went down to the Playhouse (steak night!). Anne-Marie, Phil, Roz and I…

Ok, so, what did I get up to this weekend? In brief: on Friday evening, I went to see “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” at the cinema with Sarah & Jon and Philippa. On Saturday, in the morning I went into town to get my hair cut, and then in the afternoon lazed…

I read an interesting article the other day when I was browsing around the homepage of Fetchmail, and came across the essays section of the site. It’s about open-source software and security, using the computer game Quake as an example. It’s a very interesting read, if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s a quote:…

Well, the internet went back to normal speed about an hour after I wrote that last post. I still don’t know why it didn’t work, but at least it seems to be working OK now (although when I get back home, I’ll probably find that it’s broken again). Just noticed something random… it appears that…

Ok, I am not happy with the internet at the moment. Not the internet in general, just the internet at home. I am currently downloading something at the whopping great speed of 2.79K/s. This is on 2Mb (megabit, not megabyte, in case you were wondering) broadband. Add onto that the fact that the internet was…

Ok, so, what did I get up to this weekend? Let me try and remember… on Friday evening, Philippa and I went to the Rover’s Tye and met up with Sarah, Jon, Naomi, Luke, Sarah, Matthew, Simon and Kerry as Naomi was up for the weekend. That was a good evening, actually – it was…

Well, I finally sent my e-mail of resignation to Zeth (managing editor of Crossring) yesterday. It was a sad moment, and one that marks the end of an era. I joined Crossring a few years ago as the web assistant, and have been looking after the site ever since! I think one of the main…

And, once again, another “The Weekend” post! Excellent! I haven’t been up to much this weekend, actually. On Friday evening, Philippa came round and we borrowed one of Paul’s DVDs: “Collateral”. It was a pretty good film, quite an unusual role for Tom Cruise but it seemed to work well. Unusual film, but worth watching.…