William has fun on a slide
11 June 2008 – 11:39 pmWilliam had great fun with his Uncle Tim on Sunday.
William giggling with balloons
26 May 2008 – 7:17 pmIt was William’s first birthday party on Sunday. Thanks to his cousin, Katya, he had plenty of fun with some helium balloons.
Space for 30,000 pound coins
11 May 2008 – 1:23 pmAt work I sit next to a Clyde supporter called Tony. As well as being a football club with one of the shortest names in the United Kingdom (pipped to the top spot by Bury), there is an interesting story about the club relating to a footballer whose contract was terminated early and was paid off to the tune of £30,000. Read the rest of this entry »
A whine about wine and pain relief
5 May 2008 – 9:41 pmIt was Natalie’s birthday last weekend and we dropped William off with my parents and nipped down to the south coast for a pleasant stay in the Westover Hall Hotel in Milford-on-Sea.
Overall we had a lovely time…apart from the wine. The wine itself tasted fabulous. What made me spit feathers was the ludicrous protocol adopted by the restaurant for locating the bottle itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Joomla! is very cool
5 May 2008 – 7:51 pmAbout five years ago I set up a couple of websites, one for my rugby club and the other for a charity I am involved with for people like me who have had a particularly nasty operation on their bowels. In those days, the only show in town as far as open source content management systems were concerned was an application called PHP Nuke.
PHP Nuke was a bit clunky and took a little bit of getting used to, but it knocked the socks off maintaining a website by hand using HTML. It also allowed other people to maintain sites, something which has been hugely beneficial to my rugby website, which actually looks rather smart after I found a suitable theme. Read the rest of this entry »
Advice for new Dads
5 May 2008 – 5:16 pmI have uploaded some great advice that my old friend Lorenzo sent me when my first son arrived almost a year ago.
New home page
18 February 2008 – 11:30 pmAfter about eight years I got bored with my old home page and replaced it with this blog.