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6 May 2008 (05.34 PM) Phone number frivolity

We’ve had a nice weekend away which included a meal with my parents. My dad, being an erudite guy (and an enjoyer of the same...

19 April 2008 (10.12 AM) The impending fate of a second old car

Never buy a cheap old car. At least, not unless you either know its provenance; fancy messing around with it, shelling out loads of money...

27 March 2008 (04.27 PM) Parsing IMAP folders using Ruby

One of the advantages of running my own mail server for me and Kate to use is that I can create custom email address schemes...

25 March 2008 (09.39 PM) Digital bankruptcy: too many feeds

I read an article on Techcrunch (the forever upbeat blog about whatever Web 2.0 startup has launched this hour) bemoaning the author’s 2433 unread emails. One...

14 March 2008 (12.09 PM) Videographic decisions

When we’re in Kisiizi, I’m planning to create some short videos which I’ll publish here, and—if they’re any good—I might make into a DVD. For...

5 March 2008 (05.14 PM) Improving learning with 'Brain Rules': is this new, or just common sense?

Recently I listened to an episode of the Ruby on Rails Podcast, a perennial favourite of mine. Oddly, the subject matter of this episode doesn’t have...

1 March 2008 (10.12 AM) Introducing our work in Uganda

One of the reasons I’ve started writing this blog is to keep you up-to-date with our plans to work at a mission hospital called Kisiizi,...

25 February 2008 (04.28 PM) Post-arboricultural delight

We had a load of logs delivered the other day. That’s the preferred unit of measure for such things: it’s about a pickup-truck’s worth, at...

23 February 2008 (04.20 PM) Ljubljana: food and ‘art’

Lots of the fun we had in Ljubljana revolved around eating (I’m still on the plane writing this: Kate smiled when she read that :)....

22 February 2008 (04.46 PM) Hello World (and other clichés)

What does one put in the first post to a blog? I’m assuming other people have had the same problem as me. Consider this my...

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