My old N73 had a broken ’1′ key so I took it back to the O2 shop. As in was still under warranty they swapped it straight away for a new phone. Pretty good service. Fortunately, they didn’t have another N73 in stock so I was offered an E65 instead. It’s a slider phone, still [...]

The Prince Lionheart Slumber Bear sounds like the typical over-hyped nonsense targeted at new parents: The Original Slumber Bear contains the ONLY actual intra-uterine, recorded womb sound to help lull your Baby to sleep in minutes! The fact is, it actually works.  Norah was very restless any time we put her down in the cot [...]

Norah was born yesterday, 5 weeks early by emergency c-section but both mum and baby are doing well now. She’s 6lb 3oz and a good healthy baby — although she’s in ICU until her lungs are ready for the big bad world.  More photos in the gallery.

I’ve never understood Halloween and I’ve always hated it.  Surely it’s just legalised blackmail perpetrated by your neighbours’ children?  In my dreams, Halloween goes something like this: There’s a knock on the door. I open it to find a pack of children wearing a collection of €1 “scary” masks and/or a collection of old sheets [...]

During a rather heated argument: I won’t listen to rational reasoning Of course, I tried irrational reasoning as well but that didn’t work either

Dreamhost have recently made themselves carbon-neutral. I’m not really convinced about the use of carbon credits but they have to be better than doing nothing at all. Dreamhost continue to impress me, not just with their candid honestly about system problems, their pricing and features but also their social responsibility (they’ve long had a double-your-donations [...]

I treated myself to a new phone last weekend: A Nokia N73. My old Sony-Ericsson had finally annoyed me enough so I took the plunge and bought myself a decent phone. Many of the reviews said that the N73 was buggy, very buggy and slow. It isn’t. Well, at least the latest firmware shipped by [...]

It’s quite staggering the gulf between a good recruitment agent and a bad one. The bad ones are just after your CV, and your name in their database, so that they can encourage employers. Unfortunately, they’re usually short of both candidates and positions… mostly because they’re a) lazy, b) rude or c) incompetent (in order [...]

Here’s one of the best spam messages I’ve seen in a while — it’s actually quite honest about what it is

Well, since Hilary has broken the news, I guess it’s safe to talk about our move. For a good few months now we’ve known that our rental contract on the flat would end in January, as would my PhD funding. Either we could find a new place to live in Southampton and I could look [...]