I love autumn. I’m not a summer person, even the south of England is too warm for this Northerner, and in the heat of August I long for the leaves to change and the crisp autumn mornings. I have my open university exam this month, I’ve done well in my essays but I haven’t done … October
I’ve been having tax form fun this week… but the forms are now safely in their brown envelopes ready to be sent off to the tax office tomorrow. I’m still having fun with my Zaurus – I found a neat chess game for it today which will give me something to do while I wait … ugh … tax
My new Zaurus arrived last Friday, it’s very cool… I’ve been wanting to get a PDA for some time, in order to try and tame the three diaries system I seem to have fallen into, and the Zaurus seemed like a good choice for me, I’m impressed with it so far.
I went down to town today, before the time of the silence. I needed to go to town, but I also wanted to be with other people at that point. All the shops had posters in their windows explaining they would be holding the silence at 1.46 (British Summer Time), at that time a whistle … An ordinary day
.. I’m working, writing tonight, hoping to be making some sense as I ramble on about the things I do every day, in the hope that it is helpful to someone else. The Greenbelt blog is still ongoing, it’s fun to read people’s postings after having met many of them in real life at the … Friday night …
Find out which Ani Difranco album you are most like – I got: You are to the teeth. You’re opinionated, somewhat stubborn… you like the world to know where you stand on everything, whether they want to know or not. Some might call you imflammatory, others enlightened. But isn’t everything just a matter of perspective? … Which Ani Album are you?
One year ago I left work and started my own web development business edgeofmyseat.com. One year on and I’m still in business, enjoying what I do and with plenty of work. I’m very glad I took the risk.
I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists, mostly to do with web development, and in particular to do with web standards, there are some very clever people on the many of these mailing lists and so most of the time I lurk quietly reading, and learning a lot. However, some folk (as a generalisation … mailing list nastiness
… then you are on my new server. Hopefully I haven’t broken anything while moving this site, if anything behaves more strangely than usual let me know!
I got me one of these and now I have to figure out how to use it! The idea is to use it as a development server here and I have managed to get Solaris 9 installed on it, but it’s going to take a bit of getting used to.