Dec
24
Bonny Scotland
December 24, 2002 | 2 Comments
Well, here I am in the not-so-frozen North, British Airways having managed to deliver me here on schedule yesterday. The family are all well, and Andy’s new dog is quite the daftest animal I’ve ever come across. She’s come from the pound, and having been rescued by him, she just never wants to […]
Dec
22
Pre-Departure Linkage
December 22, 2002 | Comments Off
Right, I’m sorted and ready to go - I’ll be posting over the next few days, so just to keep my hand in, a couple of links from my Favourites folder that I’ve been meaning to post for a while:
In Passing… is a log of overheard comments from the author’s everyday life.
one word is a […]
Dec
21
The Break Starts Here
December 21, 2002 | Comments Off
Well, this is the first day of my seasonal break - though I daresay I’ll be doing some work on and off.
The company festive do was last night - we went bowling and then for food and drink, and everyone seems to have had a good time. There was a bit of a consensus […]
Dec
20
Well, Dave has finished working his magic, and my machine is now itself again, only hopefully better. Unfortunately, something’s gone awry with the import of my old ICQ data into Trillian, which Dave decided to try me on, so if you were on my contact list, please send me a message, and I’ll add […]
Dec
20
Mac Unlimited
December 20, 2002 | 3 Comments
As my own machine is currently undergoing a pre-Christmas rebuild, I’m temporarily working on the office Mac, getting used to OS X, and remembering the good times - it’s been an age since I did any solid body of work on one of these things. There’s a lot to be said for them, though […]
Dec
19
Round-Up
December 19, 2002 | Comments Off
Soundtrack - Once More, With Feeling cast album
I’ve been doing holiday greetings cards this evening, and have just about managed to get them all done. The number that I send seems to go down each year, which seems rather odd to me….
I note that the Golden Globe nominations are out - not many surprises, […]
Dec
19
Traffic Light Watch
December 19, 2002 | 1 Comment
They’re still dead. Unreal.
Dec
19
Mad
December 19, 2002 | 4 Comments
The traffic lights outside the tube station near work have been out of action since some time on Monday afternoon. It’s a major, busy, four-way junction, with two pedestrian crossing periods built into its phasing, and it’s been out of action for days. How can it not have been fixed yet?
The chaos that […]
Dec
18
Lord Alive….
December 18, 2002 | 3 Comments
….but that was amazing. The Two Towers, that is.
My local cinema was a complete scrum - they’d sold out of all four later screenings by the time we went to settle down for the 7pm, and I’ve never seen the largest of their screens full before. Three hours later, we emerged exhausted into […]
Dec
18
Today’s The Day
December 18, 2002 | 4 Comments
Well, if I’d been counting down, we’d just have hit zero - today’s The Two Towers day. 7pm screening, here we come.