If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s all go on the housing front. Mortgage for the house more or less sorted, solicitors pushing for an exchange date on the sale of the flat, surveyors booking themselves in to go and check out the new place [...]

I had a somewhat romantic notion that when I move I’d be as green as I could with my energy consumption. Central to that idea was solar panels, photovoltaic cells and a small wind turbine strapped to the chimney. They’d provide at least some of the electricity I’d need.
Proper logs in the grate would heat [...]

Straight in at the number one spot for terrible gift ideas this side of Christmas is BreathCapture. It’s basically a small glass vial that you can put on a chain around your neck or wrist, or have mounted on a stand for your desk, containing the freshly (or not so freshly) exhaled breath of a [...]

The first day of the rest of the year. January 2nd 2007: back to work. Ugh.
It was indescribably difficult to get up this morning. I think the half of the MacUser team that took today off had the right idea. I arrived back at my desk to find it in the same mess as I [...]