If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Hmmm… well, quite busy, actually, none of which can be written about just yet. Lots more late nights, and long days, though, so today - Saturday - was quite a relief.
Unfortunately I’d booked in an appointment with the vet [...]

Journeys to work will never be the same again, since Kathryn pointed me in the direction of Animals on the Underground.

Well, there we go. That’s a nasty couple of days out of the way, which will hopefully only serve to make tomorrow nicer - at least by comparison if nothing else.
I was at my desk before nine yesterday morning and left it just after nine - twelve and a bit hours later. In fact, that [...]

We’ve all been working double-speed today, thanks to a generous crate of Red Bull that arrived in the post this morning.
Everyone who saw it said something about it giving you wings.
So I guess that’s a successful slogan.
Anyhoo, that aside it was a strange day. A Thursday, mentally, but according to the calendar a definate start-of-week [...]

There is an Indian restaurant in Chelmsford called Zanzibar. Zanzibar is an island off the coast of Africa, not India. That should have made me dubious to start with.
Nonetheless, I booked a table for five there yesterday afternoon, for lunchtime today, and at our appointed time we mooched down to celebrate dad’s birthday.
It was deserted.
There [...]

So after a few days offline, wondering whether I should come back at all, and finally persuaded to do so by some lovely emails from people who missed the site, I spent much of today repairing the damage. I exported all of my entries and stripping out the spammed comments.
A comment on every entry for [...]

So Keith went to the Democratic Caucus in London last night to have a say in who should go up against Bush in this year’s American election. From what he says about the number of people who were there, it sounds like there could be a good turn-out when the polls open for real. Let’s [...]

Now here’s a snazzy thing. Got your mobile handy? Good. Now try texting ‘nik web’ (without the quote marks) to 83248 and a server at the other end will bounce back my web address and iChat / AIM buddy name.
Alternatively, just text the word ‘nik’ (again without the quote marks) for my 160-character long CV.
It’s [...]

I admire Wired magazine for many reasons. One of them, and it’s a biggie, is the no-nonsense writing style that makes even the most technical matters easily digestible.
The new edition opens a piece on the similarities between computer systems and the human immune system with this great paragraph:
The human immune system is a remarkably flexible [...]

Radio 4 defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan accused the government of ‘sexing up‘ its dossier on Iraq to justify going to war, and the result of the subsequent inquiry into the truth of this allegation saw resignations at the very top of the BBC.
Now, on the day when George W Bush…
..said he was a “war president” [...]