Archive for July, 2005

events in london

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

I’ve deliberately not really mentioned the recent events in London. Not because I am not concerned about what is or isn’t happening - more that plenty of people have already said exactly what I am thinking. I did travel to london the week after the first set of bombings and apart from an increased number [...]

Ross and Lorraine wedding

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

I had hoped to sort out photos and stuff but I figured that by the time I get around to doing that properly the wedding will be months ago…
Saturday 16th July 2005. The day that for some reason that escapes me Lorraine finally married Mr Biddle. As I’m sure I’ve mentioned I was one of [...]

Course great, hotel ok, resturant wierd

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

5 days in London on a Sun course. Course was pretty good and the trainer was excellent. Only three of us on the course which was a little odd (good though). We were staying in the TravelInn out in docklands so although we had a 25 min commute it was only on the DLR so [...]

F1 goodness

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Well, the manic couple of weeks are finally over. The GP, a week away in London on a course and Ross and Lorraines wedding are done. Hurrah.
Rather a lot to catch up on so GP weekend first…
GP: Excellent. Somehow we managed to get 9 blokes from all over the country co-ordinated enough to all meet [...]

Death of the independant shop?

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

A couple of weeks ago, I ordered a load of kit from 7dayshop. At the time, it was all listed as being in stock so I expected it to turn up within a few days. Also, because they will only deliver to the credit card holders registered address I actually went to the bother of [...]

Manic couple of weeks ahead

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

Well, we have upgraded the mailsystem at last. The messaging patch that we have had problems with worked. The UWC patch that was scary appears to have installed. Even the mysterious messaging queue that we appear to have even though we don’t understand what it does appears to have patched without problem.
Directory server however is [...]

slight hicup in Tescos plans for world domination

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Whoops!