101 Goals - 100 Day Update

It’s a bit late but I have just gone through and numbered my 101 goals in 1001 days. As per meta-goal 101, here are success criteria for each. Health 1 - Teetotalitarianism for 3 months Don’t drink for 3 months COMPLETED (Jan, Feb, March - cheated a »

Making Lemon Curd

I was just over at a good friends in Leeds and mentioned my 101 goals and needing to tick some off and if he could help me make some jam sometime. We got straight down to making lemon curd (not a jam, but my goals - my rules) and it was seriously yummer »

Theatre Fun

I saw The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre on Saturday. It is an interesting little theatre underground in Picadilly Circus with quite a history The show itself was great, really playful with the staging and the 4th wall. They used Shadow Play for the »

Shiny New Aspire Revo Media Centre

I have just got around to setting up my new Aspire Revo R3600 NVidia ION based media centre PC. Why the Revo? The NVidia ION GPU is quite compelling, HDMI out and good (though non-free) drivers in Linux. The only downside is that it does not have an »

Dan Dennett - Darwin's Dangerous Idea

I’ve just uploaded this to bookcrossing.com , if you want it - get in touch. I said I would start to do brief reviews for all the books I read (especially as I intend to release most of them on bookcrossing) so here is this one (also on goodreads.com »

New Site Launched - UKblazers

Well, I went and launched a site to get some ideas down for getting some Backblaze Storage Pods in the EU and what to do in the software stack to get robust file and block level storage ontop of those bricks. It is over at http://ukblazers.com, a blog »