Two sets of congratualtions are due:
First, and a week or so late, Chris and Abbie’s son Dominic William McGrail was born last Sunday 24th July. He is reportedly “fantastic”, which is good news.
Second, Steve and Carla have a son Jaron James Dalton, born Friday 29th July while we were swanning around Yellowstone (depending on [...]
If I feel a desperate need to write something unrelated to our journey, it might pop up here, but for the most part this blog is going to go quiet for a while.
However there will be daily posts to the Road Trip Diary, connectivity willing, with pictures, jokes, detailed analysis of meals, and all [...]
Steve Bell cartoon 8 Jul 2005 - (Flickr user ukslim).
I was a bit naughty to duplicate this, but it brought a lump to my throat and I wanted to share.
Meanwhile, on the letters page:
To the British people: We feel your pain, sorrow and anger. Please learn from our mistakes. Don’t lash out wildly.
Hans Bryant, [...]
Fellow Wordpress users and Google trackers might be interested that I’ve just installed a Google Sitemap Generator plugin for both this blog and the new travelogue pages.
A sitemap is an XML document that tells Google (or anyone else that cares to look) what pages are on your site, and how often they are likely [...]
I’ve been involved in the occasional heated debate about why hand-crafted Sudoku puzzles may or may not be superior to computer generated ones, and how the Guardian’s puzzles might contain “almost imperceptible witticisms” per their writeup to accompany the first published puzzle.
Well, here is a justification from various representatives of Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle [...]
So this is one of the ways Adam Curry is looking to monetise his podcasting activities: selling Castblaster. I downloaded the trial beta and had a play. Most of the buttons don’t work, which I assume is an incompatibility with Windows 2000. That’s fine — it only claims to work on XP. It’s [...]
It’s not long now until we’re on holiday! Hooray!
The now traditional road trip diary will be on this other page. Get yer RSS aggregator pointed at it.
With the end of Debbie’s marking finally in sight, we made some time to watch From Hell, a Jack the Ripper film with a twist, last night on TiVo. There were a number of reasons I wanted to see this film:
It’s yet another film adaptation of a graphic novel by Alan Moore, and yet [...]
Google Earth keeps getting cooler, and so does Flickr.
If you install this plugin for Google Earth, then every time you stop moving, it will query Flickr for the 50 images with location tags closest to where you’re looking, and overlay them as thumbnails on the map.
It makes me want to buy a GPS again.
Suzanne and lightwands - (Flickr user ukslim).
JV held a barbeque to celebrate his birthday. Suzanne provided an adequate quantity of food — although a little more cheesy pasta salad wouldn’t have gone amiss.
I enjoyed a can of Special Brew, bought as an experiment because Paul claimed it was undrinkable. I managed, but it took [...]