Cultural Adventures

The last two weekends I have traveled across to London from Faversham to see friends and visit a few museums. During the weekend of 9/10th I met up with my sister in the British Museum and showed her around (one of my 101 goals ticked off in the process »

Building A Backblaze Storage Pod

A while ago I saw the Backblaze storage pod and was impressed. Like many others I thought: I want one Wouldn’t it work great with ZFS The hardware sucks Building one I used to make and sell storage servers using Linux a while ago with media streaming »

101 Goals in 1001 Days

I have decided on a kind of hyper-resolution for the new year, 101 goals in 1001 days. I have a mindmap of the ones I have settled on so far and have started working on some of them already. To follow (allowing me to tick off some of the meta-goals) »

Can Google create community?

I have been meaning to blog for ages about a site I use called Goodreads. It is really excellent, I signed up ages ago and cant remember exactly how I found it but I think it might have been a Rails app. Anyway, it is a fairly simple idea, log what books »

Hiatus, Departure, Return

It’s been ages since I blogged as I have been mad busy in work though a lot has happened recently. I have: Left thebigword Packed up my house Sold/Gave away most of my possessions (keeping only books and my PC, as my friend Ben said “proves you are »