Guardian Kakuro 2005-10-17 - (Flickr user ukslim).
Inspired by Steve Fulljames’ Flickr posting of a completed Kakuro, I decided to give it another go.
Yesterday’s and today’s beat me — I got near the end and found that I’d messed up earlier so that there was no way to make horizontal and vertical agree. So, I [...]
The first time I heard of the Long Now Foundation, it was in relation to their suggestion of using a modified ISO 8601 standard for time so that instead of YYYY-MM-DD, you used five digits for the year, so today would be 02005-10-19.
Why? Because Danny Hillis had realised in the 80s that people were [...]
This year is full of new experiences, and last night Steve and I went to see a football match in memory of a man struck by lightning. The Tony Allden Memorial Trophy is sort of the Charity Shield of the Midland Combination, and last night saw Leamington take on Coventry Sphinx.
Without too much at [...]
Second of our Sunday DVD rentals was Inugami. Choices Video in Leamington really does have an excellent range of Korean and Japanese films.
We rented Inugami on spec, expecting a terrifying Ring-style festival of terror. Instead we got an atmospheric family drama and ghost story set in the spectacularly beautiful hillside cedar forests of Shikoku [...]
Remember when I asked you to vote for Leamington’s Alex Rodman as FA Cup player of the round? I joked at the time that it was subverting democracy, but let’s face it, none of us really thought that asking friends, acquaintances and readers to vote was really cheating, did we?
It turns out that there [...]
Bird watching - (Flickr user ukslim).
Rob came to my desk to ask about some redundancy-related issue, and my reply was something along the lines of:
“Yes I’m afraid we won’t know when to expect the OOH IS THAT A HERON OVER THERE?”
Sure enough, a great big heron had settled on the roof of the [...]
Last night we rented The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse. If you like the League of Gentlemen (not to be confused with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) then you probably already know what this is about: the characters of Royston Vasey realise that their creators intend to move on to other themes, effectively bringing apocalypse [...]
I celebrated my birthday twice.
First, one Wednesday, Debbie and I went for a nice civilised, grown-up meal for two at Shihan, the new Japanese restaurant in Warwick. On Ruth’s advice I had edamame for my starter — soy beans in the pod, boiled and lightly coated in salt. It sort of reminded me of [...]
Horror Gav - (Flickr user ukslim).
This photo was taken only last night. I used to think Gav was a reasonable looking lad, but the camera never lies!
I didn’t know you could get a picture like this without fancy lenses and suchlike. Gav, you should be proud.
Here’s the thing, reader. I’d like you to do me a favour.
Leamington FC’s Alex Rodman is nominated for FA Cup player of the round. If he wins, a local school of his choice gets £1,000 worth of kit, and he gets to attend the FA Cup final and bathe in the adoration of the [...]