Sequence of Stupidity

• October 10th Robert given receipt for hotel booking on Robert's credit card with instructions to "keep it safe so you can use it to claim back the money later".
• Robert tosses the receipt onto desk on top of huge pile of papers.
• Receipt stays safe for a couple of weeks or so, drifting around the office.
• Robert notices the receipt just lying around and decides to address the problem by placing the receipt "somewhere safe".
• Receipt vanishes.

There's probably a moral to all this, but I'm darned if I know what it is...

Update on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 08:18PM by Rob

Ha. Found it. The document had got itself folded up with something else and I've now carefully copied the numbers onto an expenses claim form.....

Make your own jigsaws

My first ever test..

Moosaic lives! I'm about to embark on a new project and so I'm going round finishing off some old ones. And the first result of this is that you can now download my Moosaic program. This lets you create image jigsaws out of your Flickr pictures and then get them printed onto little bits of card. Fun for all the family and just in time for Christmas..

Find out more here.

Going for a drive

After all the excitement of foreign travel and dodgy planes today we just settled for a litle drive to Durham and back to visit number one son.

On the way there we saw some amazing rainbows, including one which went all the way over the motorway. I'd love to have taken some pictures, but I was driving at the time, which is a bit sad.

When we got to Durham it rained. A lot. And then some more. Number one son showed his local knowledge by getting us lost down an alley on the way to the indoor market. With the torrents of rain, poor lighting and overflowing rubbish bins the place looked like the opening shot from a CSI episode. But fortunately there were no bodies to be found.

After a splendid time talking about nothing in particular and looking at large tellies (an AV upgrade is in the pipeline) we tootled back to warm Hull.

Danger at 300 feet

Well, I'm back home now. The conference was great fun. You can see a video of me here.

The trip back was slightly enlivened by the landing process, which seemed to involve a bit more going up than I remembered from previous flights. Then the captain came on and said that a warning light had come on concerning the undercarriage as we were making our final approach. However, not to worry because he had done the aeronautical equivalent of bashing the dashboard of the plane and things were fine now...

Although it was a bit disconcerting to find all the fire engines lined up alongside the runway when we finally touched down...

TechEd Update

Yesterday and today have been a bit of a blur. I've been to more sessions. Marvelled at the .NET Micro Framework, revelled in the Robotics stuff and been very impressed with the RSS feed talk this morning. I've found time to take a few more pictures too, which is always nice.

Rather a good sunrise

Even got the moon in this one

The Expo centre

The exhibition floor

MSP's from around the world.

If you have met me you will understand the humour in this picture.

There are some more on Flickr.

Tomorrow I give my session. Wish me luck.