Woken up this morning (slight discomfort, co codomol worn off, re dosed, see last post) to find my twitter account and/or pinterest account has been hacked. The hacker had pinned a story on my pinterest account (a…
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- Hackers - get a proper job
- Felix up the Eiffel Tower
Here's my boy Felix up the Eiffel Tower. Cracking view! He's just come back from his first overseas solo (without us) adventure on a school trip. He arrived home around 11pm last night and he doesn't speak fluent French…
- Vasectomy - done
In my last post I wrote about the Djibouti proverb which gauges a mans richness by the amount of children he'd fathered. I've fathered 4 now which by today's standards (in this part of the world at least) is plenty. I…
NappiesAccording to the audiobook* I'm reading at the moment, an old Djibouti proverb goes like this : "A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers" and then, went on to the question "After all, what else does…
- MacBook Air
I've got a MacBook Air parked on my desk at work today. I wanted to type some stuff to try out the keyboard, so I thought what better place than dragondrop.org to absorb my words. I must say, it's incredibly thin. The…
- Grand Canyon
By eck, it's grand that is. Clair and Ben (wearing a splendid T-Shirt) stood in from of a STUNNING vista of The Grand Canyon in Arizona. Loads of DD club points for this one - iconic background (fo' sho), wearing the…
- New Flickr
It's been a remarkable few days for technology. Google's annual developer conference last week revealed yet another Star Trek tech ; "Hot Wording" - a device that constantly listening to you, waiting for you to say…
- Where will Nokia be 5 years from now?
A couple of years ago, Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia made a tough decision. He partnered with Microsoft - his former employer - to deliver the operating system for Nokia's next generation of handsets. For the last two…
- Big fat lazy Sunday
This post is in danger of being the thing I've tried to avoid so far with my blog 365 project - a blog about my lunch. Thing is though, I've not done a lot other than food today. After a bit of ball wanging for the dog…
- PIPS
Petch from PIPS | Photo credit / kind permission of A W Backhouse - thanks Andy! I'd asked twitter #harrogate if anyone had heard of the PIPS last night - they were billed to headline a free gig night at the Zoso late…
- Grove Road School Disco
Tonight's annual school disco at Grove Road School Harrogate, was the "Best Disco Ever" according the kid who wrote lovely note I found on the floor. If I was still an actual real kid I'd probably have thought the same.…
- 500 on the twitter, 160/4 on the cricket
For ages now, my follower count on twitter has floated at just under 500 followers. At the time of writing this, it's on 500 (hoopla!). That's around 100 followers per year, just over 1 new follower for every 12 tweets…
- Annie Mo smiles video
Embedded video At just under 2 months, Annie Mo is now smiling properly. These are not windy smiles but genuine happy smiles. I captured this the other day and thought I'd share. I'm so glad I captured one of her first…
- Resumed progress
Resumed progress on project finish kitchen. A project that started last October in a very intense fashion for a month - we swapped rooms around making our old dining room our new kitchen, which involved removing a skip…
- Atom Panopticon
I visited_ The Atom_ this evening. In Wycoller, Lancashire, near a row of gnarled old trees wrapping their limbs around what looked like a row of gravestones - slabs of rock forming ancient 'vaccary walling' (a sight…