Caboose

This weekend my sister Clare and her husband Iain came to visit. We went on a walk around Cambridge, visiting a few pubs along the way. The first was the Cambridge Blue, then the Fort St George, the Green Dragon and finally the Boat House.

In the evening we had a very nice meal at the Loch Fyne Restaurant on Trumpington Street.

I’ve finally got round to replacing my Handspring Visor PDA with something a bit newer and shinier: a Sony Clié T625.

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It has a beautiful colour screen and all the latest PalmOS bells and whistles.

This article: The Fifty-first State? makes a lot of interesting points about a potential war on Iraq, concentrating on what happens after the (inevitable?) American victory.

The only part I’m not too sure about is the tying of democracy to American economic policies. It’s this idea of “you can elect anyone you want so long as they agree with us” that has led to many of the USA’s mistakes in the past, especially in South America.

Just got round to adding a BlogChalk to this site: United Kingdom, East Anglia, Cambridge, Romsey Town, English, German, Kevin, Male, 26-30, Gadgets, Antarctica.

I got my first comment on this blog today! It really makes me happy to know that somebody out there has read it and taken the time to comment.

There was a tiny earth tremor in England in the early hours of this morning, in most countries it wouldn’t even be worth mentioning. Some of the comments on the BBC news site:How badly hit were you? are either funny or worrying or both.

“Ian, England”‘s comment is especially good:

I’ve never been so terrified… I called the police but they said there was nothing they could do… Why do I pay my taxes????

Next week, David Blunkett announces new Police intiative to stop seismic activity in the British Isles… Earthquake Tsar appointed… something has to be done.

I’ve currently got Ronan Keating’s If Tomorrow Never Comes going round and round in my head. It’s probably because it was on Q103 (local radio is great) at the gym this morning.

Why is it that part of my mind insists on choosing music that the rest of me hates? Do I really want to know why? I knew I should have brought some CDs into work today.

I’ve been playing around with the stylesheets on the site, to try and get away from the default Movable Type look. Let me know what you think.

This weekend has been a very lazy one for me. All I managed to do yesterday was get my hair cut and then spend the rest of the day hanging around the house. Today hasn’t been much better, although I have been helping my housemate Al put his car’s starter motor back together.

Looking forward to next weekend when my sister and her husband are coming through to Cambridge, I’ll probably take some pictures and put them up here.

Back in the early days of the World Wide Web (about 1994) I had just started using it at University. This was before the big search engines had appeared (imagine life without Google or AltaVista) so the main way of finding your way around was through links pages.

My favourite site for finding resources on the web was Global Navigator, set up by O’Reilly publishing. I just discovered that somebody has resurrected it after it was bought and then abandoned by AOL. Have a look at the New Global Network Navigator Home Page if you miss the early days of the web: using Mosaic, no animated GIFs, very little content, no annoying JavaScript bugs…