At the moment I am still enjoying the novelty of having a turntable again and the rituals of playing a vinyl record. For a start there is that way of holding an LP by the edges and flipping it over, which just can’t be taught or described; you just do it, and even after so […]
Entries from October 30th, 2022
On the road again
October 26th, 2022 · Comments Off on On the road again · Life
Having spent a week seeing, and trying to avoid getting run over by, all those mopeds, scooters and motorcycles in Istanbul I was getting a bit of an itch to get on my own bike for a bit of a spin and today I had a good excuse. I needed to pay some cash into […]
Getting some use out of the new black passport
October 25th, 2022 · Comments Off on Getting some use out of the new black passport · Life
Last week I had my first taste of overseas travel since before the pandemic, and the first outing for my new black passport. It wasn’t my first flight of the year: I have had three flights out of Gatwick this year, but all of them were up to Glasgow which is not (yet) a foreign […]
Video nasties
October 12th, 2022 · Comments Off on Video nasties · Life
Today’s post saw the arrival of my belated birthday present from the NHS: a bowel cancer screening kit. Obviously this is going to involve me posting a stool sample to some laboratory. The kit contains an instruction sheet for doing all this, which includes a QR code which can be used to see an instructional […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·WTF
(Yet) Another birthday-related post
October 12th, 2022 · Comments Off on (Yet) Another birthday-related post · Life
No apologies for mentioning my recent birthday again. It was a big one after all. This is about people that I share my birthday with. I already knew that I shared my birthday with Seb Coe, Lech Walesa, Julia Gillard, Wim Kok, Silvio Berlusconi, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Les Claypool, Cervantes and Lord Nelson from looking it […]
Tags: WTF
Eye in the sky
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Eye in the sky · Life, Technology
It looks like I now have a hobby at last. For my 60th birthday the kids clubbed together and bought me a drone. A proper serious one. Apparently there are implications and extra conditions for drones of 250g and over, so this one is 249.5g but very sophisticated. In fact it is so sophisticated that […]
Born to be mild
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Born to be mild · Life
The last time I posted about motorbikes was back in November last year, when I passed my test and was thinking about what bike to get. Of course there has been some activity on that front. I did go out and do the stupid thing and buy a bike in December, when it was going […]
Tags: Motorbike
Just like starting over
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Just like starting over · Life, Music, Technology
Quite a long time ago I sold my turntable (a gorgeous Linn Sondek LP12) and all of my vinyl. We were moving to a smaller house and the vinyl was taking up a lot of space, not to mention the space needed for a proper rack for the turntable, amplifier, speakers, etc. I found that […]
Tags: Music·Technology·Vinyl
Upgrade time
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Upgrade time · Technology
So. The place where I host all this is upgrading the version of php and this site was not compatible with the new version of php. My fault for not touching anything for ages: I had an ancient version of WordPress and some ancient and problematic plugins and themes installed. At the moment I can […]
Tags: Wordpress
Ping!
October 8th, 2022 · Comments Off on Ping! · Life
It looks like I have not posted anything here for 8 months, because I really haven’t posted anything here for 8 months. Maybe this is a sign that the new job I started back in February is a lot more demanding of my time and attention span than the old job. Or maybe I just […]
