slipstream

2009

June 21
May 44
April 29
March 39
January 55

2008

June 43
May 38
April 33
March 66
February
January
Has a bucketful of home-grown broad beans! Guess what we’re eating for the next week…
May 31st
Wormed/de-flea-ed cat. Thank goodness for drop-on treatements - no need to get get a pill past a...
May 28th
Cat is snoring.
May 25th
Warch Watch
Superb nerd-dancing, and calculus-inspired lyrics.
May 25th
“My plan goes far beyond a wish to simplify the National Curriculum, and tips over into *pure...
May 24th
Listening to “Nebulous” and snickering at the idea of the ‘Tutorianator’
May 24th
Found a ridiculous number of mechanical pencil lead refills in my office drawer. Have enough lead...
May 23rd
Just to clarify, I agree totally with what was said. “Going forward” is a personal...
May 22nd
Last quote from here: http://tinyurl.com/6j6bex
May 22nd
“Our direction going forward is to replace our existing system…”. Sigh....
May 22nd
Oh Joy of Joys - ‘tis exam marking season again. Just smell the anxiety wafting off those...
May 22nd
Man, I love this new Apple keyboard. Makes typing a pleasure. Plus, it doesn’t act as a...
May 21st
Trying to convert an svn repos to a git repos.
May 20th
Hoping that this week is going to be a bit better than the last.
May 19th
Not a weekend I want to repeat: Mr. Bsag was pretty ill, but seems to be rallying a bit now.
May 18th
It’s really cold in the office today. Warming my hands on the LaCie hard drive, in the absence...
May 16th
TextEpander is saving me masses of typing today by expanding [my study species’ name] while...
May 14th
New Apple Aluminium keyboard (wired) on work Mac. Very nice! I’m embarrassed that it took me...
May 14th
Hard work battling against the wind on the bike this morning. And is it National Bottle Smashing...
May 14th
Just found 2 bottles of wine on doorstep and thought the Wine Fairy had visited. Turned out to be...
May 12th
tms [fernLightning]
May 12th
bag is hot
May 12th
Just trod on some glass from a broken lightbulb. Got broken in a 5am husband-vs-wasp incident a...
May 11th
Is it me, or is it really humid today?
May 10th
It’s Saturday morning. I’m going to put my shades on and plant some lettuces.
May 10th

Rubbish

As I cycled home yesterday through the park, a group of girls was approaching me, as I got close,...
May 8th
Wishing powdered milk actually dissolved properly in hot liquids. I’m not enjoying the lumps.
May 8th
Finally making some progress with writing and thinking.
May 7th
Trying to brainstorm, but managing only a light braindrizzle.
May 7th
Ontario bakery succeeds with honor payment...
May 7th
Wild garlic was really pungent this morning - actually feels like late spring/early summer!
May 7th
Actually sent a fax for the first time in years. “What, I have to feed actual paper into this...
May 6th
You can rely on the British Bank Holiday weather to scupper any plans you had for your day off.
May 5th
Just watched Bender’s Big Score. Will have to watch it a lot more to catch all the references....
May 3rd
Just re-arranged living room furniture, hifi and TV set up. Now hot and dusty, but it works a bit...
May 3rd
…The sound guys must have short term hearing loss. But that clip from Blakes Seven was...
May 2nd
Brian Blessed on HIGNFY repeatedly clipped the audio levels. The man is a walking, booming nightmare...
May 2nd
Hooray for highlighting and notes in Preview.app. Very handy for annotating research articles.
May 2nd