Hullo blog! A few things to fill you in on how this fox has been keeping:

• I've been with my current employer for six (count 'em) months, and am still thoroughly enjoying the job. This week, I have mostly been learning Ruby (surprisingly pleasant language - very OO) and putting together SSL servers in Apache.
• In May I attended Confuzzled 2011 in the ( Read more... )

Last week, tfbaxxter and I had a heart-to-heart, and sadly, I decided we should part ways, and cease to be 'an item'. It wasn't an easy or a pleasant choice to make, and I've felt quite low this week having to live with this choice, knowing the hurt it's caused - both for myself and for him.

I do hope he can be happy, and that he'll forgive me for what I've ( Read more... )

Hullo again, you little charmers. It's been a funny few months, hasn't it? I have rather neglected this little journal, which is a bad habit I really should rid myself of.

So! I've not been up to too much since last I posted, except for changing jobs again - yes, again - finding myself at a certain international publisher of magazines, who I won't ( Read more... )

Today, it's mine and tfbaxxter 's first anniversary!  Having plucked up the courage to ask him early in the morning exactly a year ago, and been given the answer I'd so nervously hoped for, I love him just as much as I did back then and take every opportunity I can to tell him. We chat online nightly, either through instant messangers, Skype, or even the ( Read more... )

Did I tell you I was moving house?

Well, I've moved house. Having been faced with my landlord selling the present property, I wasted far too much time procrastinating and not hunting down a suitable replacement until the last minute. Still, I eventually found a tidy place not terribly far from where I was, and so over the past few weeks have been ( Read more... )

Team Fortress 2, America's favourite war-themed hat simulator, has been available for the Mac for some time, but its performance has been rather lacking. This isn't really unique to TF2, to be fair - many games perform noticeably worse on Mac OS X than they do on Windows on the same hardware. While it's annoying to have to do so, for the moment to ( Read more... )

 I've always been fond of using 'alternative' operating systems. Back in the very early 90's when I first became aware of computers, we had an Acorn Electron, an 8-bit 6502 machine with 32K of RAM and a cut-down version of the BBC Micro's operating system. Sticking with Acorn (my parents are teachers, and brought home machines from the schools ( Read more... )

This is a little overdue, but better late than never! As mentioned in my previous post, I spent the week of the 23rd of July on a cruise - my first ever - to beautiful Norway. In specific, we visited four towns/cities: Stavanger, Olden, Ålesund and Bergen, as well as spending the first and last days entirely at sea as we traversed the North Sea. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow at noon I set off for Southampton, to embark on a week-long cruise of Norway, in honour of my Grandma's 80th birthday. It was a surprise treat, and certainly a very pleasant one - plus it means I get to see tfbaxxter , if only for one day, when we disembark in Stavanger. I thoroughly enjoyed my last visit in August 2009, and while I'm still not ( Read more... )

As of today, tfbaxxter and I have been together for ten whole months! During that time, we've spoken online almost every day in some form or other, be it through instant messengers, e-mail, or voice over IP. (I work for a telecom company, which makes this even more economical, but we also use Skype, since it's free and readily available.) We've also met ( Read more... )