Day Trip to Durham

Went up to Durham today and fetched number one son. The town was full of loaded cars and harrassed looking parents (including us). I think we brought back around five computers. At the moment they are all humming happily in his room, using up my mains and stealing my network bandwidth.

It is nice to have him back for a while.

No Such Thing as Bad Publicity

Went to a publicity workshop today. We did a SWOT analysis. Strengths, Weaknesses, something beginning with O and Threats. I wonder if the thing that begins with O is important?

Click. Google. Oh, opportunity. I wondered what that knocking noise was.

Man of a hundred spoons

As regular readers (do I have any? he wondered) know, every day I have a yoghurt in my office. I used to take spoons from the kitchen, but after a month of this we had no spoons in the kitchen and a pile of them in my office. Not good. So I joined the disposable society and bought a pack of plastic spoons to keep in the office and work my way through. My father in law does bulk buying stuff and offered to get me some more. I was then presented with 100 spoons in quite a large bag.

I've never had so many spoons. They half fill a desk draw. And the funny thing is, I'm afraid to use one. Because then I would only be the man of 99 spoons...

Update: I've just found another cache of spoons in my desk draw. I am now "the man of one hundred and seventeen spoons". May you all tremble before me.

Recreational Coding

I'm writing programs for fun again. It is sad and scary, but I think I'd rather write software than play computer games. Some time back I wrote some code that was a computer game. That was heaven. But now I'm fiddling with something else and really enjoying the experience of whacking lines of C# down and making them do stuff.

I used to think that this made me rather sad. I've now decided that it is OK for me to do this, as long as I don't bother other people by going on about it too much.

Things I Have Learnt: number 4

Another in the series of things I have learnt. A refreshingly short set of facts to guide you through life:

The question "What kind of fool do you think I am?" is rarely, if ever, answered satisfactorily.