(b)logophile

(Blogging has been light lately, and will continue so for some time — busy busy busy.) Monday I blew a lightbulb in my apartment. Didn’t have any spares, so I didn’t discover until Tuesday morning that this in turn blew a circuit breaker. The circuit breaker powering the hot water system. In my morning pre-coffee [...]

My new passport arrived today. I’ve been putting off blogging about this, because announcing to the world that a brand-new passport is arriving in the mail didn’t seem so very smart. Now that it’s here and I don’t have to keep quiet any more, I feel I must give some advice to anyone in my [...]

I had a run-in with the Gods of Traffic and Timetabling last night. Haven’t poured enough libations on the roadside recently, perhaps, or just plain insufficient grovelling. It’s a sad story, and an unnecessary one — I decided not to cycle yesterday because the day before my ears and fingers almost froze off, but in [...]

I just sent feedback to a complete stranger, about their recent website redesign. (In my defence, they asked for it, and they needed it.) Then I realised that it’s Christmas Eve. Oops. Merry Christmas all!

I’ve just spent a weekend playing host to a couple of old friends from Dunedin, NZ. I’ve also had a busy fortnight, hence the paucity of postings. There’s a bit of geek revelry in the pipeline, but first I’ve got yet another “I got horribly lost and walked for hours” story. In this one, I [...]