Well, nothing much interesting has happened over the past couple of days. At least, nothing noteworthy. It was Philippa’s birthday and we went out for a meal last night, which was cool 🙂 I’m doing a training course this week in central London, it’s at a place called Spring IT which is near Liverpool St…

Apologies for the cryptic title, but – remember how in 2000, everyone was talking about how we were all promised we’d be living in silver jumpsuits by the year 2000, and none of that had materialised? Well, something might be about to materialise in the not-too-distant future: flying cars. I would imagine, with sod’s law…

I’m talking about Oracle’s software. There is ALWAYS something seemingly small and insignificant that goes wrong, but it ALWAYS takes ages to fix… ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Ah well, that’s the way it goes, I guess. Especially when you’re working with Linux (I like it, apart from the fact that I find it difficult sometimes because I’m not…

Well, it seems like I can use PHP OK on my Linux box, except for the fact that I can’t write any files… if anyone’s got any ideas as for permissions, let me know. I’ve tried setting chmod 777 html and chown phill:apache html but it hasn’t seemed to make much difference. So if anyone’s…

I might think about moving over to a new web host soon. OpenHosting have served me well, but they are a tad expensive… I’ve found a hosts called UH-Hosting, and they seem to be pretty cheap. The main thing is, MySQL databases – with OpenHosting you have to pay extra per year. Another option is…

Well, here’s a picture of a situation which I find wholly acceptable: Note, the Linux desktop in the background, but the Windows taskbar at the bottom and the Windows applications running… Ok, so it’d probably be better to run Linux primarily, but I don’t want to do that. Incidentally, Linux is running on my old…

Ah, the good old customary “The Weekend” post. Not loads to say… on Friday, after work Philippa met me and we … um … stayed in during the evening. We watched “Swordfish”, it’s a good film. Then on Saturday afternoon we headed back to Colchester, and in the evening we went to the Anglican Chaplaincy…

Yeah baby! I’ve just got a new computer and it’s FANTASTIC!!! Woohoo!!! I just can’t believe how much quiter it is than my old computer… you can barely hear the fan on this one, it just sounds like a quiet hum. My old computer sounded like a jet engine taking off. And this computer is…

Well, a couple of reviews coming from the opposite ends of the musical spectrum here! Firstly, the choir last night. It was a fantastic evening! I have to say that I wasn’t previously a fan of choral music, I don’t really know why… anyway, hearing it live really made it something special. It was quite…

Just in case you were wondering where I’ve gone the past week or so, I’ve been posting up on my new blog. So for the latest updates to my life, go there — and hopefully soon, I’ll be able to transfer the new site across…