31st December 2013 Lists are popping up on Facebook. And on Twitter. In both Real Life and Virtual Life, there are conversations that mention resolutions.
Year: 2013
Go ahead caller, you’re through
I was lounging around in bed, alternating between coughing my lungs out and snatching five-minute dozes to try and make up for the lost sleep
Speaking of slightly suspect video…
I have to see this film when it gets released! It’s got Adolf Hitler, ancient Vikings, Kung Fu, a renegade cop, time travel, and layer
Meanwhile, in another galaxy
I’ve been writing film reviews again. I can’t help it. I’m now conditioned to write film reviews, after all the years of high living that
Boxing Day roadtrip!
On New Year’s Day almost 365 days ago, I took the Bandit down to WsM for a jolly little trip. Today (Boxing Day) I took
It’s simples, simples
Look, it really is very, very simple: It’s ‘there’ or it’s ‘their’ It’s ‘we’re’ or it’s ‘were’ It’s ‘it’s’ or it’s ‘its’ My 16yo daughter
GSXR Recall – What’s that all about then…
Lifted this from Streetbike’s FB page As some of you may be aware, there is a bit of a Suzuki GSXR brake recall going on
Mounting the new toy
(this post should probably be over in the geekblog?) Yesterday’s road trip wasn’t just a jolly on the VFR down to London for the fun
Driving me mad!
I did a lot of motorway miles today, on the VFR. It was fun. I loved it. Except for the vast majority of other drivers.
Absolutely horrific!
This is what driving too fast in adverse weather conditions does. How do these stupids get driving licences in the first place? (no sound to
An antidote to maudlin (not Magdalen)
Good looking females Infectious laughter Decent music Motorbikes Allow me to introduce you to The Pickle!
Window shopping (not shopping for actual windows)
I have been comparing the two leading action cameras (with half an eye on when I replace the cheap and nasty camera that I use
More music geekage
On (very, very slowly) building the ultimate driving playlist… And you know that ‘Live With Me’, by Massive Attack? There is something in the way
Live With Me
There are few songs that invoke immediate goose bumpery. Massive Attack’s ‘Live With Me’ does. Every Single Time. It don’t matter, Where you turn. Gonna
Genesis. Nursery Crime. The Musical Box. 10m27s
Play me old King Cole, That I may join with you. All your hearts now seem so far from me, It hardly seems to matter
Rugby-based rhythm guitarist looking for rehearsal/practice
Really rubbish rhythm guitarist looking for rehearsal/practice/jamming opportunities in Rugby. Drop me a line if you know of someone/something, huh?
Some words should not be abbreviated
Dear Tesco, when faced with the decision of which word to abbreviate, ‘Assorted’ is not the one to chose. pic.twitter.com/RQiPwwfGoK — James HodcroftⓂ️ (@jameshodcroft) November
A stupid cyclist writes…
From today’s Guardian: There you go. Cyclists jumping red lights is not necessarily stupid despite the fact that IT’S COMPLETELY AGAINST THE FUCKING LAW YOU
Keeping busy
Things are work are mentile. So, to balance my life out, I’m keeping very busy at home too. I suppose the ‘things at home’ divide
Narrowbanded?
So my upload speed is four times quicker than my download speed? I think I’ll wait to see how things settle down.
Digital TV – the future of broadcasting?
I settled down to watch the MotoGP on BBC 1. I switched it off before the race had even begun. Not because of the BBCs
16 Reasons You Hate Your IT Department (response)
This blog post is an insider’s light-hearted response to: 16 Reasons You Hate Your IT Department 1. Password policy Our passwords exist to protect this organisation’s
Fancy a quick ride?
A grainy, wobbly look at the poor quality of video one can expect from a cheap and nasty £25 bullet camera (strapped to a Honda
People are scary
People on motorbikes (and, in one particular clip, people on pedestrian crossings) are even scarier:
Anatomy of a kind of insomnia
2.45am, gets up for a wee Goes back in to bed Rubs eye Dislodges contact lens Goes back to bathroom Removes lenses Goes back to
The Space Has A Meaning
I have seen Phil McMinn perform as the frontman of (the late) The Winchell Riots a few times. I was in the front row, with
Beating up the civvies
Cotswold Airport (the former RAF Kemble) getting beaten up by a couple of C130s Post by Cotswold Airport.
If you’re not overtaking, get in the left-hand lane!
From the Highway Code on motorway lane discipline: 241 – Do not overtake unless you are sure it is safe to do so. Overtake only
The true cost of gas
There has been, in the last week, a great deal of words said – and written – about the price rise that British Gas has
Two things…
This evening two things have occurred. The first is that my iPod seems to have stopped working – because it got so wet on my
Weekend list
Saturday: Get up Notice that it is pouring down Shower Shave Teeth Dress Put motorbike stuff on Ride the VFR to Shipston on Stour Get
Drivers guide to bikers
I actually had, today, a motorist who tried to block me – a motorist who deliberately changed the direction of his car – to stop
Busy doing everything
You know how sometimes you think you’re really really busy? Here’s a guy who makes people being really really busy look as if they are
Any port (forwarding) in a storm
Here’s a frustrating little niggle. I’m having to use a downgraded router (due to not having FTC, as previously moaned about). To allow internet traffic
And I’m back (online)
Heyyyyyy! How you doin’? Crikey, I sound like a cross between Joey (off of Friends) and The Fonz (off of Happy Days). So. I have
Moving the second (part VI)
This is odd. I have pointed a domain name registered with 123-reg to my NAS. I have done the usual stuff (created a MySQL database,
Moving the second (part V)
It’s taken 24 hours, but I have finally learned how to migrate a self-hosted website from 123-Reg to my NAS. It was more fiddly than
Moving the second (intermission)
I had successfully proved that the concept (that migrating a php front-ended, MySQL back-ended website hosted with a commercial webhost, based in Arizona, to my
Moving the second (part IV)
How to migrate a website called fredbloggs.com from a commercial host to your Synology Diskstation with no loss of uptime: Before you start, you need:
Moving the second (part III)
Well. In the best traditions of technical geekery, the next part in the exercise to self-host on a Synology Diskstation NAS was not as straightforward