Category: Personal
R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio
Ronnie James Dio died at 7:45am this morning after a 6 month battle with stomach cancer. Ronnie had performed in a number of bands, most notably with Black Sabbath taking over from Ozzy Osbourne and with his own band Dio. He embraced the mythological themes of metal with dragons, castles, swords, magic and damsels featuring […]
Continue Reading...(One of the) Best Burgers Ever
Believe it or not, but I find Applebees burgers to be the best burgers I have ever tasted! This may be heresy coming from a self confessed foodie, but hear me out. Usually, I find burgers from chains fairly throw away affairs, you get it, eat it, it’s hot, it probably has some nice toppings, […]
Continue Reading...Christmas Hiatus Over
Well, 2009 is done with and we are plunging headlong into 2010. Being European, I like to take a good week off around Christmas and New Year and with relatives here for Christmas I haven’t spent much time on work or blogging. So for those that have sent emails, apologies for the delay and I’ll […]
Continue Reading...New Blog Theme
Yes, I’ve done some decorating around here, well, actually I got the interior designers in as I didn’t write this theme. I have retired my own custom theme as I felt it wasn’t making the most of the features that WordPress has to offer such as widgets and plugins. This Carrington Framework Overview gives you […]
Continue Reading...Hosting Changes
I’ve recently changed hosting providers which so far has been a royal pain in the backside. My old provider EasyCGI were fine when I started a year ago. Last fall, they underwent some changes in their platform and since then, their service has been patchy. I’m not alone this opinion as plenty of their users […]
Continue Reading...John Hughes Dead at 59
Wow, makes you feel old when the people that you grew up on start making headlines this way. He wrote, directed and produced a number of movies that define my generation by never forgetting his adolescent experiences that are common to all of us and putting them on celluloid. He set many of his movies […]
Continue Reading...About Me
FYI, I just updated my about page with my (mostly antique computing related) biography. You can find it here </shameless promotion>
Continue Reading...Get your childhood geek on
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Continue Reading...Haitus and reflections
Well, I’ve had family in town for the last couple of weeks, and since the Lost finale, I’ve been tied up and thus not posting. Normally people shouldn’t blog about blogging, but it’s my one year anniversary of both blogging and switching over to Ubuntu from Windows. Taking a break was good as I tend […]
Continue Reading...Sign Me Up For Glee Club
I’m linking this vid as a must see. Not only is it a great song (Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing), but it is an awesome version of the song. I would say almost better than the original except for the band section in the middle which sounds synthesized, and a lack of rock edged guitar in […]
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