13 March 2006
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Over the weekend, I’ve made a few refinements to my perl script for grabbing my blog index from del.icio.us. It now writes directly to the file on my webserver rather than relying on a redirection of standard output, which consequently … Continue reading
12 March 2006
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Jane and I have just got back from visiting Iglesia Bautista Carismatica de Londres, a Spanish service at Chatsworth Baptist Church in South London. It was a great chance to combine Christian worship with honing our language skills but, even … Continue reading
11 March 2006
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We’ve been doing a little bit of decorating this week and the current task is the dining room floor. Yesterday Jane hired a sander to remove the old varnish and before bed we put the first coat on. This morning … Continue reading
10 March 2006
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Del.icio.us have been doing some planned maintenance this morning which has revealed a glitch in my blog index script. At the moment, it polls the del.icio.us server for my most recent entries and then returns them to “standard output”. If … Continue reading
10 March 2006
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As a change from crime fiction, I’ve just started reading The Haiku Handbook, which I picked up in the library earlier this week. Haiku, a form of short impressionistic poetry, are something I’ve been interested in for some time and … Continue reading
9 March 2006
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If you’ve looked at my website recently, you may have noticed the new blog index down the right hand side of the “home” section. This is designed to give a view of all my blog entries and allows further filtering … Continue reading
8 March 2006
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Bouncing back from months invested in reading Quicksilver, I’ve just polished off three crime novels in a row: Jo Nesbo’s The Devil’s Star and Birdman and The Treatment by Mo Hayder. All three are based round troubled but brilliant detectives … Continue reading
7 March 2006
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The Elusive Teeth have undergone a few personnel changes recently. It had dropped back down to Peter, Dave and myself but now we’ve been joined by John, a drummer. Over the past few weeks, he’s been getting up to speed … Continue reading
6 March 2006
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Since Quicksilver took such a long time to read, I want to get a bit more mileage out of the experience. One of the overarching themes is the pace of change. Today, it’s common to hear people bemoaning how changes … Continue reading
4 March 2006
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Earlier this week I finally finished Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, the first in his three part “Baroque Cycle”. That’s notable because I’ve been reading it for more than four months (albeit not continuously), significantly slower than my normal pace. That’s … Continue reading