So yesterday, julia_winolj and I got married.

Julia and I would like to thank a whole bunch of people, people who have grasped what kind of people we are and what we were trying to achieve.

The staff at the Hilton Hotel in Sheffield were excellent, listening to our concerns and doing their best to meet them. Christian and Erica Ward, our photographers, were ( Read more... )

Probable timetable tomorrow ( Read more... )

The time is rolling around for stag do number 1, an afternoon of beer in Sheffield, so here are your instructions ( Read more... )

Some of you will have read about my plans for stag do number 1, an afternoon of beer in Sheffield.

Plans are now in place for stag do number 2, a day of culture in London.

Meet at 10:30 on April 22nd in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern on the south bank (you can find the entrance here). We'll visit various places in the immediate area (picking up ( Read more... )

From the Met Office website:

Weather forecast: Central, Tayside & Fife
Saturday:
Early morning frost soon melting away to leave a fine dry day with some bright or sunny spells. Although it will be a little colder winds will be very light. Maximum temperature 10°C.

Yes, we're off for a weekend in the Kingdom of Fife, where hathy_col is getting married on ( Read more... )

As some of you will be aware, I'll be getting married in May ( Read more... )

I muck around with computers, and sometimes people ask me to muck around with their computers, and then they pay me for it.

A client with a London office of about forty users, has eight more users in an office in Paris. They didn't have good links between the two offices, and the Paris server was old and slow.

"See this tape drive here, with a ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't posted for ages. What's happened recently? We got a new car.

As previously reported, we ordered a new car -- and on January 20th we collected it ( Read more... )

Meme from robling_t via nellorat:

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Not the first sentence on that page, but the sentence best placed for comic effect:

"What are you doing? he would scream, terrified and confused. "What in hell is this place? What the hell's going on?"

Anyone else want to have a go?

My car, as featured in this icon and which I've owned new from June 2002, is being retired. It's nearly ten years old, it's done 160,000 miles, and it wants about £1200 spent on it in order to get through its next MOT, which is due at the end of February. That's more than I want to spend on it ( Read more... )