Another day, another concert. This time at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. Hannah was performing in the choir which was performing Mozart’s Requiem. Very nice it was too. There was also a Brahms concerto which was good, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 (I think) which I found a little dull.

Had a quite enjoyable evening yesterday at the University of Birmingham carol service. The free mulled wine was surprisingly palatable and the choir was good (Hannah was in it). There was a small group of brass players who were quite good and bolstered my resolve to practise my cornet more.

Yesterday we spent the afternoon at the aforementioned “cathedral of materialism”:http://www.mcarthurglen.com/centres/home.cfm?centre=swindon and then bemusedly observing the behavioural traits of some drivers in the dark in heavy traffic. We were planning on driving back to Birmingham last night, but got sidetracked by the the excellent “School of Rock”:http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/ and decided to come back this morning. Cue… Read More »

…and I am getting fat. But hey, what are you gonna do. We’re down in Reading for the weekend. It was Holly’s birthday yesterday and we went out for a meal and I partook of various meats. Did a bit of Christmas shopping today and more to follow tomorrow when we go to “a big… Read More »

I’ve been playing around with redesigning my site with a new front page and my blog as only part of it. I haven’t had much time, so I’ve largely only been doing things with CSS and the like to see what I can make it look like. I have been doing odd things with dynamically… Read More »

Well, it’s been a very long time since I last blogged. Every time I look at it, I seem to go blank. Time for an update, I guess. I’m enjoying my work. I’ve been doing a lot of work at Landrover’s plant in Gaydon. Finally there is light at the end of the tunnel and… Read More »

Getting Getmail, Spamassassin and Procmail working together.

Quick one, I have 6 gmail invitations to give away. Please leave your name and email address as a comment if you want one. If you’ve been living under a rock for the last _whatever_ Gmail is the new webmail service from Google and it gives you a lot of disk space and is nicely… Read More »

w00t! I had an interview yesterday. I have a job today. How good is that? Such a relief after filling in so many ridiculous application forms, this one came from a much nicer source. John Pinner at Clockwork Software Systems posted to the SBLug mailing list with a job opportunity. I replied with a copy… Read More »

I ate pie for dinner this evening. It was an apple and blackberry pie, made with blackberries and apples picked from the wild. Very fine it was, too. We picked just over 3.5lbs of blackberries and over 4lbs of apples. The apples were rather underripe, but combined with the blackberries and a fair amount of… Read More »