So I’ve taken down the old blog, and now I’ve just got to move over the pictures and sort out some file locations. Easy.
Remind me why I do this again? Wouldn’t giving up and using a hosted service be more modern and about 50 times easier?
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the more I want to stay inside and play with geekery. Nearly ready to replace the old blogger blog now, just want to check some new bells and whistles actually work. Today, I am mainly checking my facebook widget. and everything seems OK doesn’t it? Got myself a nice template that I’ll be able to tweak over the coming weeks. Nerd fun or what.
I've been wondering whether to get my finger out and blog more for I like running my own domain, rather than handing over the controls to And now, I get an email from blogger saying they're withdrawing the Of course, given the vast number of posts I've made over the past This is where I admire the Fakir – he still handrolls his own site, So, watch this space for a nice sparkly new look, coming soon. I’m probably stealing the Wife’s thunder here as it’s she who wants to start blogging again. However, as she’s ironing I thought I’d drop a note about the X Mini IIs we’ve just bought for going on holiday with. You’ll find lots of other reviews out there singing the praises of these and they really do deserve it. Little speaker, well made, modular, expandable and good at what it does. We’ve bought a cable to split the connection out so we can get stereo with the pair of these that we bought (rather than just mono, but twice as loud). Once we’re on holiday we may have to join forces with one of our friends who also has a pair of these. That way we end up with stereo, twice as loud again. So many places to put updates. I’ve found that sometimes it’s easier to just dump something onto my Facebook status, when once I would take the time to come and update the blog. And then Twitter came along which confused things even more. Should my Facebook status be more or less detailed than my Tweets? Should either hint at things that would be covered in more detail in the blog – if I ever wrote it?
And don’t even get me started on whether I should stick with self-hosted Blogger, or whether I should move onto something like Drupal or Wordpress.
Either way, I’m going to be making more of an effort to keep this up to date. If Jim can manage it, I can.
I got a bike!  OK, it’s not a very big bike, and it isn’t exactly flash (a made in India budget special), but it’s bike enough for me. I’ve bought the new Honda CBF125 because it’s new, extraordinarily economical (about 350 miles to a £9 tank!) and cheap. The reviews are making nice noises about it, and I liked the colour when I saw one at a bike show. What more can a girl ask for?
 We picked it up yesterday and Stuart drove it to a big carpark for me. I did my clutch and gears CBT about 8 or 9 years ago so I wasn’t convinced I’d remember the single day’s training. But you’ve got to wonder about the quality of everyone else on the road – for some reason loads of drivers chose to exit via our furthest most remote corner, some of them even managing to mount the kerbs of the planter beds. Yes. In an empty car park.
After variously mixing up the clutch, accelerator, rear brake, front brake and gear lever, I decided I’d had enough. I could remember how to go in a straight line in first (and stop again) and that was enough for me.
This morning I decided that the only way to get up to speed was to get out there, so we got the radios up and running and Stuart gave me a mini lesson. My brain was full of the mechanics of the bike, so I wasn’t really driving properly. Thank goodness for the big guy in the BRIGHT YELLOW jacket hanging behind me. It was like being a driving school duckling all over again. By the end of the 18 miles into London and back, I wasn’t stalling nearly as much, and when I did I was able to recover from it without too much fuss. At this rate, I’ll be thinking about the journey rather than the mechanics in no time.
 I know it sounds silly, but doing this has helped me feel a lot more London. Partly because it’s a pain in the arse to get anywhere in a car, so I’ve started to combat that, but more because I now feel like it’s going to be possible to just pop over to visit friends – and that I have friends I actually have friends I want to pop over to go and see.
But right now, I’m sitting at home drinking tea and aching from using new muscles. Ace.
Who said the spirit of Christmas is dead? Just look the wonderful tree our district has put on for us:  It’s been like that for weeks now. OK, I appreciate there might not be enough money in the budget to replace it, but surely a tree that looks like it has been given a good kicking is worse?
Having still not found a real reason for one of these but just wanting to own one I finally succumbed yesterday and bought a shiny new netbook. We were in Costco and they were there calling out my name “Stuart, buy me” they were saying, so I did. I am now the proud owner of an Acer Aspire One. As you will see from the time I am posting during working hours (lunch of course) as it is a really teeny tiny computer that is genuinely stuffable into your bag to carry about for the day. So here I am at work, on the free wi-fi, browsing Engadget and updating the blog. I am a very happy person right now. I’ve started getting musical hankerings again, which means spending much time in instrument shops playing with all the kit. I was in a place near soho, and spotted this in among the sheet music:
Can you just imagine what this would sound like? Superb. |
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