I’ve decided that I’m finally going to get that undergraduate degree. I have narrowed down to two options: 1) The Bachelor of Professional Studies at UNE. Pros: I have 50% credit from RMC and should be able to complete it in a year or two. Cons: as interesting as lettuce fungus. Start in February. 2) [...]
Here’s one of my favourite photos of Tim and Lucy on the Foreshore at the mouth of the Hunter River in Newcastle. Nobbys lighthouse is in the background, where Tim spent a lot of time with his mate Rob Stevens, whose family lived there. Lucy’s mum Sue very kindly sent us the print. It reminds [...]
When you’re a kid, the things that scare you are simple. Monsters in the closet, girls, the dark, being singled out to answer a question, dentists. As you grow older, the things that scare you diminish. However, new things creep in, including the mother of them all: WINDOWS WAS UNABLE TO BOOT. THE FILE WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM [...]
It was anything between 29 and 39 deg C today in the UK depending on who you ask. It was hot for England. I must have been here too long – I was baking all day. I feel so soft having come from Brisvegas that gets to 40 with 100% humidity on a regular basis. [...]
Radsy Recipes #1: Before you start, make yourself a Martini. You deserve it. Take a small butternut pumpkin and slice it thinly. Lay it on a baking tray and smear it liberally with crushed garlic, finely chopped marjoram/oregano (fresh if you can get it) and extra virgin olive oil. Place in a medium-hot oven and [...]
Radsy Recipes #2: For this you need a rockmelon and some other stuff. The whole purpose of this is as a morning-after breakfast, so some forethought is important. Are you going to be having lots of Martinis and wine tonight over a large plate of pumpkiny goodness? Get the ingredients for the radsy super-breakfast as [...]
Here I sit, again, in front of WebSphere Application Developer hacking bug fixes for a product we just paid 40,000 quid to Logica to develop for us. Apparently so long as it appears to work during the acceptance test it’s good enough. Never mind that under the thin veneer of functionality lies a product so [...]
Scrubs is such a cool show. American comedy is either amazingly lame or, occasionally, superb – never anything in between. It seems very strange to me that all the American comedies that I like begin with an ‘S’ – Scrubs, Simpsons, South Park, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live. Cath is also an ‘S’ lover – Sex [...]
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