I've just had a slightly dodgy nights sleep in a hotel in Cambridge. and idly flicking through the blog of my colleague Scott I turned up one of those annoying "what kind of person are you" quizzes. read more...

A perfect excuse to return to our former homestead came with the IMS/Alt-I-Lab conference in Sheffield. As the week draws to a close we are both delighted to have had the opportunity to be here. read more...

Jackie found a thread about who will die in 2005 and I wanted to send them off to play celebrity death bingo. There is also always the more real and sensible looking DeathList. read more...

While browsing through this week's Sheffield Telegraph Jackie came across an application for a licence to sell intoxicating liquor for consumption off the premises in the name of Boots Stores Limited. For some reason I can't see too many people going into Boots for a bottle of Vodka and 24 cans of Special Brew with their Sanatogen. read more...

While walking through the station this morning (as I do every morning to get from the wrong side of the tracks to the right side of the tracks) I was confronted by a man in an orange flap jacket with a strange inscription on the back:<br/> Miles Mitson, a railway Chaplain heads for the coffee bar <br/>Eeek. What do they do. read more...

So I got the job. And it looks like it will be good. read more...

South Yorkshire's "keystone cops" (as seen on TV) made their traditional bank holiday visit to Park Hill to break up a fight which had already finished. Sierra Yankee 99 this is Sargent Peabottom are you receiving, over, crrrrhSergeant Peabottom this is Sierra Yankee 99 over crrrrh. read more...

I'm sitting in the hotel lobby of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Southport. which is a very lovely place in a kind of tatty seaside way. read more...

Someone is wrapping the Claywood flats in plastic. Don't know why - presume it's for demolition purposes. read more...

Today, Paul brought me a spare wrist rest to replace the one which I snapped in half (two years ago) by hitting my monitor with it. I would post a photo but then they will see what I'm doing. read more...

In the dark mists of the past, before PHP and MySQL, I was involved with creating a rather fat and cumbersome website for a fishing tackle shop called Leslies of Luton. They must have been trawling google the other day and found mention of themselves on my very old and out-of-date cv. read more...

This weekend we endured a little motorway madness to go to my Grandfather's 80th birthday party, a trip well worth making, and as ever lovely to see all the 3rd cousins, great-secound-uncles, nephews-once-removed and so forth. Bilbo Bagins himself would be proud of such a distinguished and complicated family tree of which this is just a fragment:<br/> <br/>And the car got back in one piece and passed it's MOT. read more...

The Great Manchester Cable Fire has rucked up all sorts of fascinating stuff about secret underground A-Bomb-proof telephone exchanges. I wonder if they have one on this side of the Pennines too. read more...

It may seem like we've been in France forever now, but in fact we've not. We've been home for a fortnight and I've just been lazy in updating the blog. read more...

I went to get my eyes tested yesterday - because I keep having a slightly strange sensation that I'm seeing differently out of my right eye than I am out of my left, an odd and slightly migraine-like sensation. Anyway I was delighted to learn that I am the tiniest bit short-sighted and have a bit of astigmatism and don't need glasses at all: &nbsp <br/> &nbsp <br/>And after that, the nice man showed us some lovely expensive bling-bling shades pictured below which we did not buy: &nbsp <br/> . read more...

Today is going a little better. David Lynch is busy creating world peace. read more...

There is a bit of a hush over the office today. Jez is listening to the radio. read more...

Bah humbug. It's December and so I now accept the possibility that Christmas might be just around the corner. read more...

I'm still (as Timothy Leary would have said) totally out of it man. Which is why I'm back at work today. read more...

Leeeuchgh splutter sneeze hot cold rrrrrr. According to Jackie I look like Dave Gorman at the moment. read more...

Some nice ant-related links:<br/> University of California - pest management programPestproducts - pharaoh ant biology and habitsUniversity of Michigan ant stuff <br/>And there is plenty more where that came from. read more...

In a bid to create a little more atmosphere at work Stan and Paul went to B&Q to get a load of lovely plants. Big improvement. read more...

I am no longer a long-haired hippy. I am now a short-haired hippy. read more...

This morning to my great delight, Carnforth Railway Station has re-opnened. And it's been all over the news and everything. read more...

A few things culled from CanRandom. <br/> Map to MordorKids do RadioheadBoring Boring BoringDyson Telescope GameGeek Horoscopes <br/><br/>I thought the horoscopes particularly good. read more...

Jackie and I have been in France - it has been lovely. We did lots of nice mooching. read more...

It's a nice day. Paul is kicking himself for not putting out any washing this morning. read more...

The fag-o-meter seems to be working very well - only I can't put it on the front page with everything else at the moment as it's done in php and the blosxom variant I'm using is perl. And most of the rest of the internet is broken from here today for no particularly good reason. read more...

I'm trying to stop smoking. Here is my fag-o-meter. read more...

Russell (my boss) says that "The blue bins are crap. They are too small and only get emptied once a month. read more...

We went to a nice party at Dylan's house this weekend. He gave me a lovely cd entitled Choooooons from da Moooooooon. read more...

We are going away to France. In September. read more...

This Sunday evening we aquired some Hopi Ear Candles from our friends Chris and Emily and tried them out. Really strange having a burning thing sticking in your ear making hissy sounds, but very very pleasant. read more...

My friend GirlSam sent me a link to a directory of art-school graduates called Artshole which is very nice. Hooray. read more...

My head is falling apart. This is the official diagnosis anyway. read more...

According to the Sandwich Man today is National Yorkshire Day, meaning that for one day only, all of Britain is in fact Yorkshire. It also means that he has a large plastic white rose pinned to his t-shirt and has been called a "ponce" by his less polite customers. read more...

A couple of good friday distractions from the BBC<br/> Going Loco - your bizarre train tales Potato Earth's deep secrets <br/>Those playing railway-bingo should mark "The gravity is too strong today" for several hundred points. read more...

Russell posted Origami Boulder website to canrandom. Buy now and it will and good. read more...

This morning, following Jonathan's comment I thought I'd pull the PR out. Low and behold it has become official and I have found a wonderful wonderful thing to waste loads of time with in the form of Wikipedia. read more...

That's the feathered kind of course: <br/>www. nice-tits. read more...

Show your patriotism with the Ultimate Portable toilet for the outdoorsman. As spotted on Mishmash. read more...

A random googling moment found the following. Sam's Anchor Cafe Cam Sam Hill's Cam Another Samscam 2009 update: These are all long gone. read more...

I am Mr. Laurent Mpeti Kabila, a senior assistant leader of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone. read more...

Samscam looks even better through porn tinted spectacles. read more...

The Royal Matrix is gripping Sheffield today - we woke up to the sound of the police helicopter flying around the estate and then there were tons more cops in the station itself checking all the advertising hoarding thingies for explosives. More limp union jacks are flying over the town than you can shake a stick at. read more...

Some links from canrandom to share with you:<br/> The history of the internet Scary puppets How to use the telephone "The only successful dot-com to date" . read more...

Who says I'm the only person in the office who doesn't do any work. Paul has found a website of Heath Robinson sketches. read more...

Someone on the P&P forum mentioned a web-based nation simulation game. I have wasted a small amount of time trying it out. read more...