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Summary: conference not bad. Hotel ok. Breakfast excellent. Location interesting…

Around this time last year, I got sent up to Sunderland Uni (great bacon sarnies btw) to look at their email system. The two days I visited coincided with the coldest, snowiest spell that we had had for a while. I also had to buy new shoes on the way up which set off an [...]

Very odd weather this morning. I left Folkestone in a blizzard. It was dark, blowing a gale and snowing like mad. So much so that the main road was covered in snow and slippery as hell and the M20 had police and gritters all over it. 15 miles up the road and all is dry [...]

Yes, after much rambling and rumour finally today it was officially announced. It’s happening! They are getting married!
Ross and Lorrainne that is of course I’ve even got the invite and everything. According to the BBC it appears that another couple have announced a wedding as well. Errrrrr should I care? They’ve even taken [...]

Trip in to work this morning started well. Found an old Bon Jovi CD under the seat, stuck it on and cranked up the volume. Short lived though - by the time I got onto the motorway (must be at least 2 mins from my house) I was already getting annoyed by idiots with fog [...]

Found by foo this amused me somewhat

Blimey. Its been a time…
Having finally got an access point installed in our meeting room (ha!) it turns out that my Ipaq although claiming to be WIFI compatible is only compatible with channels 12 and 13 if it runs the Spanish firmware.
Guess what channel we need to use in the meeting room :-(((
Arse. Maybe I [...]