If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We had a good flight. It was a bucket-shop Britannia route to the back of beyond, but the seats were comfortable, the food was good and the views fantastic. The French air traffic controllers were on strike again, and […]

My bags are packed. My iPod is full of music (and the 8 German CDs ripped to its memory in the hope I’ll come back being able to speak like a native). The weather has been checked - several times, and it’s still hot enough to justify eating ice cream all day every day.
Oh, and […]

It’s nice to know that tomorrow is my last day in the office before heading off on holiday, but no matter how good the break - or when you take it - you always end up doing double the work in your last few days so things don’t fall behind.
So, it was a late night […]

A day full of nice things.
A bright sunny workday, warm enough to walk out for lunch without a coat, which closed with a big noisy thunderstorm when I got back home. Fat drops of water drummed on the window, and on the roof of the car as I drove to the gym for pilates. They […]

Quite by chance, Leo discovered that the top hit for ‘Microsoft Works 7′ through Google is not the Microsoft site, but a review written by me. I’m sure that will change over time, so as this entry slides down the archives it will eventually prove untrue, but for the moment… how bizarre.
Being the first day […]

It is very hot. That’s perhaps just as well, as I tried to turn on my oven yesterday without success. So, it’s a week of salads and (assuming the hob works, although I’ve not tested it) omelettes until I go off on holiday next week.
I could do microwave dinners, I suppose, but that’s really not […]

The day of the office move went smoothly enough. I pretty much shifted all my stuff yesterday so spent this morning putting other peoples’ things into boxes and archiving off old issues and test results.
We were done by one - and that included shifting around the plants so we have the best ones near our […]

Well that was a disappointment. London Zoo and my desk are not entirely close together. It’s a 45 minute walk, or a short roll on the bus, but the thought of meercats and a whole zoo to ourselves once the general public had been kicked out had a whole heap of us heading north on […]

After a long long swim on Monday night and then the gym last night I woke up this morning with pain in my shoulder. To be honest, I think it had more to do with mousing around my screen than dragging myself up and down a swimming pool, but either way it’s probably just as […]

Breakfast with mum to talk holidays. Cat was on edge, parading backwards and forwards and and miowing at us with disdain. I don’t know whether it was the fact I had gone or they had gone back or because she’d been beaten up by the ginger tom yesterday morning, but something had upset her and […]