Apologies for the lack of posts - we’ve had a horrendous ten days, building new servers, getting everything migrated, etc. We did manage a day out for Pete’s birthday on 7th, (although we actually went out on the 8th) - we went to Bakewell, and to Chatsworth; the former was charming, the latter was so ostentatious that we didn’t really like it, but ( Read more... )

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( a letter to my MP )

perlmonger has documented our delightful Wednesday here - I've had better days, frankly.

still, I'm finding the ripping of the vile blown vinyl wallpaper from the landing walls quite therapeutic, so I go out and do a bit of that from time to time.

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having cut my teeth on them doing the cookbook lookup on www.nibblous.com, I decided to address the subject of our DVD collection ( Read more... )

I had a few days in a lull, workwise - clients on holiday and so forth. So I embarked on a site which I have always wanted to do. It's still a bit rough round the edges, and I have a lot more features planned, but [fx: fanfare]

ladies and gentlemen, and anyone else who is reading this, we bring you our shiny new recipe sharing and food blogging ( Read more... )

1. a cat - Esk, to be precise
2. two monitors, a 24" Dell, and an 18" NEC
3. a very battered copy of a Yes, Minister paperback, lord knows why. Perhaps it's waiting to be catalogued; I shall investigate
4. a Microsoft Action Pack - oh the shame ... in my defence, we are about to embark on some Perl work that has to go on a Windows server, but I do realise how ( Read more... )

this is now part of our in-house coding standards:

SELECT count(*) as dracula FROM image

tip of the hat to codepope for the recommendation for this neat Skype phone which works onnaMac. I've just had a conversation with etriganuk and it worked a treat ( Read more... )