Year: 2005

On Saturday night, Claire and I went to the Tsunami Relief concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which was pretty fab. We arrived at about 3:15pm, just as things were starting to kick off - on one of the many park and ride services being operated especially for the event. The buses and their …

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On Sunday, Claire was reading me a BBC News article about a woman who fell from Constitution Hill this Saturday, sustaining a severe head injury.

It turns out that the woman was Nia, the receptionist from the Technium. We found out when she didn't turn up for work this morning. The Technium manager sent a text …

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I seem to have come into posession of a couple of haggises (or "haggii", as I prefer). Would any of you Geek Night regulars like to join Claire and I a little earlier this evening for a haggis supper before we get down to the board games? A vegetarian alternative can be arranged for, if …

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Grr! Yet another fuck-up by the folks who run the Technium phone system: right now, every sixth call (exactly) to SmartData's number is put through to the WDA's answerphone (the WDA share our building). It's a fucking joke.

This is on top of the various problems we've had with our voicemail. And don't get me started …

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Jon has posted to his blog about "Second Term", JibJab's most recent parody of the American policial system (you'll remember It's Good To Be In D.C. and This Land, which I blogged about earlier). In any case, the versions you'll find on JibJab and Yahoo are surrounded by advertisements and can't easily be resized (hey; …

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Geeky post.

I've just been playing with the data integration and XML-parsing features offered by the new version of Macromedia Flash (traditionally used for animation on the web, but nowadays used for all kinds of things, like those silly games at Shockwave.com). They're actually quite impressive - here's the result of my fiddling this evening (requires …

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After last Sunday's Geek Night, I've observed that there are a fair number of us (well: Claire, JTA, Ruth and I, at least) who would be interested in an online, one-day-per-turn game of Diplomacy, an entirely skill-based strategy game made in 1959 and based on World War 1. It's a really, really simple game, but …

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There's a lesson here for any business with a web site:

I'm sure that you may be familiar with Freedom Sport & Surf, the sports goods shop on Alexandra Road (opposite the carpet shop formerly known as Rumbletums Cafe). Well; they had a website - FreedomSportAndSurf.com. But they let the domain name expire, and it's been …

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This is an urgent message for Paul M:

Some of us in Aber are concerned that your original travel plans had you returning to Aberystwyth on Monday 17th January. It is our understanding that you have an exam on the morning of Monday 17th January, and we're not sure you're aware of this. We have tried …

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