.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Blackberries from the Garden, originally uploaded by ldodds. Last year it was a bumper crop of raspberries. We had some, but not many blackberries. This year the raspberries didn't do … Continue reading Blackberries from the Garden →

The fourth in my annual navel gazing series. This time to mark my 34th year. And damnit I just keep getting better.

I've disabled trackbacks in this blog, and kicked the MT cgi script into a corner to make it harder to find. I finally got sick of deleting trackback spam. So if you want to comment, please just shout. Or drop me an email. Or just link to me, as I've got a "links to me" … Continue reading Trackbacks Off →

After that brief flurry of activity yesterday I'm going to go quiet again for a few days. I've been clearing my desks so I can go and live in a field for a few days. If you're waiting for responses from me on anything, please be patient for a few days until I get back … Continue reading In a Field →

We're trying to recruit a software developer, if you're in the Oxford area and know some Java, Perl, XML and XSLT, then get in touch. The role involves working on a full-text processing system, involving reference extraction and supporting tools.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The fruit of our labours, originally uploaded by ldodds. Testing out the Flickr photo blogging feature. Thought I'd show off the massive crop of raspberries and tayberries we picked this … Continue reading The fruit of our labours →

Just some notes on a few changes I've made to my blog setup. Firstly I've added the Make Poverty History white band to the home page. Obviously not visible if you're reading this in a browser but its a cause I do believe in, so why not go and click that link and find out … Continue reading Blog Changes →

Another of my annual birthday snapshots. What's going on in my life at the moment? I doubt you're interested, but I am. So there! Home Well we stopped thinking about the loft conversion and went ahead and had one done. What a nightmare that turned out to be. Dust, mess, and disruption I was expecting. … Continue reading Birthday Snapshot #3 →

I just filled this out as an idle exercise to see that the results would be: Who Should You Vote For?. I don't feel that any party represents my views especially well, but my expected outcome was Liberal Democrat. You can see the results for yourself: Labour 8Conservative -21 Liberal Democrat 34 UK Independence Party … Continue reading Who Should You Vote For? →

So I read about the Tentacle Man, the Red Man, the Grey Lady and the Purple Man, and tried to find a picture of the much missed Bath Blue Man, but couldn't find one. Anyone care to share? His gimmick was to paint himself blue and stand immobile in an alcove next to the Roman … Continue reading Bath Local Heroes →