Very pleasant trip to Cambridge yesterday, ostensibly to attend Bodies in the Bookshop, a Crime Writers’ meet-and-greet thing at Heffers bookshop. Met up with the ever amiable Simon Kernick who joined Al and me in the Eagle afterwards for some…

deteculative Originally uploaded by John Self. Excellent stuff from the Selfmeister Click the image to see a bigger, clearer version.

Just realised how rude the title of this post sounds! Took a couple of photos of our little bungalow, and uploaded them to Flickr. The Nissen hut thing is meant to be a car port, but at the moment it…

Just testing an image to see which is the best size from Flickr to suit this blog template… Looks like ‘medium’ (500×375) is perfect!

We have invested in a new digital camera, so hopefully a few more photos will be appearing on here and on my criminally underused Flickr page. It looks like this:

I think he has announced it over on Palimpsest now, so I can let everyone know here that Rick Green has started the first Palimpblog! His posts have already been pretty varied and thoughtful and it will be interesting to…

Since upgrading to Itunes 4.9 I have been attached to the US store and not the UK one and am unable to buy any music. Anyone have this problem? What have I done wrong?!? 🙁

Interesting post over on the TwoWayWeb News: I got a response from Jimmy Wales to a note about Wikipedia on Scripting News on a private mail list. He may if he wants, make his response public. Imho, it was unnecessarily personal.…

Christ, I feel terrible. Off work again for the second time in three weeks. Think it must be Glandular fever – others have had it recently. Still, it gives me plenty of time to loll in bed and do nothing…

From Phil Bradley: If you’re a Firefox user, Google has now produced a version of the toolbar for the browser. Features are listed from the link: Google Toolbar Help

A small, and pretty poor, photo I took with my camera phone while yomping round Llanymynech a couple of weeks back.

Had a pretty good drive to work this morning – right up until I reached Henley. Between there and Warwick, I and about 30 others were trapped behind some numpty doing 40 in a 60 the whole way. Meant I…

Interesting article in today’s Guardian Online supplement: Just when the government badly needs to show its competence at running large IT-based projects, along comes another wave of bad news. On Tuesday, parliamentary questions revealed that the cost of running Inland…

John Self at Palimpsest has already got on the bandwagon for the latest Sean Wright opus, the superbly titled Wicked or What? See his initial pre-publication posting here. The notoriously sane Jesse Jameson blog also covers this exciting release.

I have been playing around with Outlook 2003 in an attempt to get all my email addresses sorted out so that I regularly check them all. Previous attempts to use Thunderbird have failed as I found the way it handles…

LA Times ‘wikitorial’ gives editors red faces This is quite funny, and serves as a warning to any organisation jumping in feet first to a new technology without fully considering the likely implications. It was the boldest of innovations. A…

Yesterday I finally got round to writing another piece of Parsnip, the thoroughly inept fantasy author. They raced through the arid desert land which was what Zamora was comprised of, mostly. There were some nice bits but they were all…

Not a lot going on here I am afraid. This is entirely due to the fact that I don’t have internet access at home, and now I do much of my web browsing through FeedDemon it’s a bit tricky doing…

In response to my legions of demanding readers… The new job is going pretty well! I work in a team of about 10 people, all of whom are jolly friendly. Essentially the team pimps itself around the Council doing bits…

Yesterday was the Big Day Out for members of Palimpsest, the arts discussion site I help maintain. It was also my birthday, and what a great way to spend it. Whilst in the pub I discussed blogging for a short…