We’ve just returned from our first holiday of the year… Sunny Sardinia. The Hopkins family (+1) invaded the Italian island for a week, and had a great time. We stayed in a lovely set of villas, with a great pool (which for some reason we managed to empty within 30 mins everytime we descended upon […]
I’ve updated the cricket site at www.cardiffnorthern.co.uk for the new season and resurrected the fantasy cricket league. Liam is making the early running and Steve Palmer is off to a good start in the quest for the duck cup. I spent most of yesterdays game against Talygarn stewing over a terrible decision where I took
We’ve finalized our New Zealand itinerary, funnily enough only just before we go to Sardinia for a week. The list is as follows Arrive Auckland via Hong Kong Kerikeri (Bay of Islands) Coopers Bay Auckland Waitomo Caves Taupo Taupo (go to Rotorua) Palmerstone North Wellington Interislander Ferry to Picton Kaikoura Christchurch Greymouth Franz Josef Wanaka
[thumb:921:l]Since I’ve been away I’ve been doing various things including building some new lighting units for my fish tank. Ordinarily fish tank lighting can be very expensive and I had a need for lights that I could mount to my opening lids. Home made units consisting of 3W Luxeon bulbs mounted on various peices of
Kathryn bought me this book for Christmas and I read it on the train to and from a meeting in London last week. I literally – no pun intended – read it from cover to cover in the 4 hours of travelling and I can highly recommend it. It’s based on the exploits of a
I have finally taken the plunge and bought myself a shiny new Apple Macbook. It’s 2Ghz and comes with the default 512 meg of RAM but I plan on upgrading that. Got it on the Apple refurb store but it is quite obviously new as is usually the case with the Refurb store and thanks
Winning the award for most eye catching car security system is this effort from Australian Peter Teslan which Kathryn found here. Needless to say I want one and Kathryn is probably in the process of making one. The car owner has a site here and it has some very cool looking things on it.
For the second day running we’ve had snow and the office is looking somewhat abandoned. Car is stranded in the car park and I’m trying to decide whether to drive or walk home. Supposed to be going to see Ricky Gervais later so it remains to be seen what the roads will be like getting
Have been waiting for the new Mac chipset to come out before jumping ship from the world of windows. Apparently we are almost there so I’d better get saving.