he problem with celebrating Guy Fawkes in the Southern Hemisphere is that it doesn’t get dark until very late at night. Which means that just when I want to go to bed is when the neighbours’ fireworks hit their peak. So I was awake reading for a long time last night, because there was no…
fter the stinking hot nor’westers at the weekend, the last couple of days have been cold and wet and miserable and back to feeling like winter again. Someone said it even snowed in some parts of town last night! There was definitely a lot of thunder – it was quite weird, actually: I caught the…
I can’t remember if I mentioned that I’d volunteered to host the Christchurch Bloggers’ Christmas party this year. The usual host, Miriam, has moved to Australia, and at a meetup a while back Tartankiwi mentioned she hadn’t found anyone else willing to host, so I said if she couldn’t find anyone then I’d step up…
The two main programming languages we use at work to build helpful little tools to speed up the tedious jobs are Javascript and Python. I’ve been making reasonably good progress at learning Javascript, but the Python stuff I’ve been leaving to Lucy-Jane, who is a much more skilled programmer than me. On Friday afternoon, she…
hat I’d intended today was to spend a few hours in a relaxing game of Minecraft with the nephews. What it turned into was a frustrating afternoon struggling to get the server to play nice. Still, it was a lot of fun for the first hour or so, until the server crashed… Nephew #1 had…
ytteltonwitch came over this morning so I could help her tidy up her CV (hopefully the advice I gave her turns out to be useful – I did once have a job polishing CVs, but that was a lot of years ago and in another country, so I’m not exactly up to date on current…
alloween isn’t really a thing here. It keeps trying to be a thing (largely led by the retail industry, I suspect), but it never quite makes it. For a start, it’s the wrong time of year – the days are getting longer, and warmer, so there’s nothing at all spooky about the evenings (especially as…
ery tiring day today. It got off to a bad start when I was woken up at 3.30 am – I’m not sure what by, but I suspect boy racers. And of course, having been woken up at that horrible hour, it took me forever to get back to sleep again, so I felt like…
fter my triumphant post of yesterday, I very nearly forgot to write a blog post today! I blame the fact that I have actually written a blog post today, it just wasn’t for this blog. My Toastmasters club has a website where a recap of each week’s meeting gets posted. Up until recently, there’s been…
s of yesterday, I’ve managed to write a blog post on 101 consecutive days (which of course makes today number 102, but I liked 101 better for the title…). Not bad going, really (even if sometimes the content has been a little thin). There’s been a couple of late nights in there when I suddenly…