I’ve just installed rockbox on my ipod. It’s a replacement firmware whatsit that works on a few different mp3 players and supports ogg, flac etc and works with a filesystem structure (no more itunes!) although it has quite powerful support for playlists that I haven’t played with yet. It’s also themeable (see screenshot). It has… Read More »
In around 4 hours, Hannah and I are jumping in the car and setting off for a getaway in Somerset. We’re staying at http://www.helpfulholidays.com/property.asp?ref=E187&year=2006 It looks lovely and I can’t wait to get away to somewhere where people don’t kick your car door in:
I haven’t blogged in ages, so I went to createablogentry.com I’ve visited the counties in yellow.Which counties have you visited? made by marnanelmap reproduced from Ordnance Survey map databy permission of the Ordnance Survey.© Crown copyright 2001.
A colleague was stumped by how to add a Live Bookmark for Guido’s blog in Firefox. It turns out that to do that, the page offering the feed must have an alternate link in its header. The software that artima.com uses for its weblogs doesn’t do that, so I’ve hacked together an ugly little script… Read More »
Well, I have to say I almost jumped for joy when I read this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/4633562.stm That’s 400 customers who now have a better chance of a decent wedding photograph service. Elegante SUCK so badly it’s untrue. Still, we’re now getting 6 substandard storybooks out of them for nothing instead of paying for 3. We… Read More »
Well, what a week. We finally had somebody in on Friday to replace our boiler. Much daydreaming of a warm house and hot baths was done, only for our hopes to be dashed when there was a fault with the boiler. The NEW boiler, mark you. Grumph. Other aspects of our life have been rather… Read More »
I am rarely stirred to write on this blog these days but I have been so tonight. Some weeks (months) ago, we saw the first trailers for the new production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (hereon “Narnia”). My reaction was “ooh, that looks like it might actually be good”. So, with some… Read More »
At 12:44pm on Tuesday 13th December Carl and Susie became the first of my friends to become parents. Bethan Ruth Ebrey was 6lb 9oz at birth and after a lot of heart-ache on her parents’ part and somersaults on her part she came out naturally and is a beatiful, healthy baby girl. I think Carl… Read More »
Phluid, where is Robbie G? This girl wants to know so bad she wrote it on her chest. Phluid
Finally, we’ve discovered a decent vegan restaurant in relatively nearby. Sibila’s Restaraunt is an organic vegetarian restaurant and is attached to a health spa, Body and Being. The restaurant is a short walk from Brindley Place in Birmingham, and overlooks one of the canals. It’s quite small, with a modern, but quite intimate, feel to… Read More »