Walking to the doctors # Spent the afternoon reading about how to cope with grief, and writing about my Dad on my blog # Swimming with Tessa and Anna – Steph, Jen and Debbie are hosting a party for under 8’s at the church # Trying to catch up with...
My Dad (David John Richards) died on Monday the 26th of November 2007 at around 9pm in Lincoln Hospital. After a long illness initiated by inoperable throat cancer, but in the end an accumulation of a number of factors. The hospital staff were great and Dad’s sister, brother in law...
While I was driving to Lincoln yesterday I was listening to the excellent Absolute Science podcast (now in hiatus, but with lots of great older podcasts still available for download). At the end of some of the podcasts they have songs and this one “code monkey” particularly appealed to me,...
I’m sitting at Boaters Landing Cafe today, Debbie and I have just had breakfast and now I’m working in the sun on my Tablet. The view is great today with the sun shining on the wet beach and it’s even more interesting because our friendly Swans have decided to come...
Driving over to Lincon to see my Family. Listening to AbsoluteScience podcast. Thankgoodness for podcasts and friends to talk to! # Having lunch at a Little Chef, hoping my Brother has time to meet me before we have to get down to business # Powered by Twitter Tools.
My Dad died last night in his sleep # Dragged everyone out for a walk and a meal to keep me company # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Walking back from Lytham – listening to excellent podcasts from IBM Investor relations on the "future of" cities, the home, work, TV etc # Worried because Debbie just rang to say that we have had a large unauthorised withdrawl from our bank account using her card # On my way...
Scott describes his home office in great detail in this post. I’m a little jealous because he has his own space (I have to share mine with my Wife and she’s not very tidy!) but we have a similar setup, although Scott has even more monitors than I do!. If...
I’m a big fan of Camtasia products, both Studio and SnagIt, so I’m delighted to see that older versions are now available for free (for PC Plus users in theory). Camtasia Studio is for screen recording and SnagIt is probably the best screen capture utility around. Provided you don’t run...
For a long time now I’ve watched Jeffrey Snover and admired his passion, Graham noticed as well and linked to this short video that explains some of what motivates Jeffrey. As Graham points out the all important ingredient is that Jeffrey really believes that PowerShell is going to improve the...