Today saw the start of the smoking ban in public places in England and last night at the stroke of midnight I lit up a cigar in a pub on the seafront and puffed away in an ironic celebration against smoking. Of course the ban didn’t actually kick in until 6am but who cares. I’m [...]

Over at Aidan’s blog he has just installed some code to display gravatars (Globally Recognised Avatars) on his site. Basically you register your email at site.gravatar.com and assign a thumbnail image to it, and when you comment on anyone’s blog who has added the gravatar script your image will show when you comment. Of course [...]

I decided to have the day off yesterday as hardly anyone else in my department is around which limited me on some of the stuff I had to do. Yes I could’ve gone in but as I’ve got holiday left to use up I thought I’d spend the day doing something constructive and so I [...]