London’s Elephant Parade

May 8th, 2010
London’s Elephant Parade
London’s Elephant Parade

Caroline and I had lots of fun spotting the elephants in London. This was one of our favourites, in Carnaby Street.

I’m confused by all this ‘googlemail is becoming gmail’ malarky… seems pointless since gmail an…

May 7th, 2010

I'm confused by all this 'googlemail is becoming gmail' malarky… seems pointless since gmail and googlemail addresses have always worked, regardless… and will continue to work. What has actually changed?!

Wake on LAN (WOL) for the Point of View ION 330 motherboard

May 3rd, 2010

I’ve built myself an unraid server, using an atom-based motherboard – the POV/ION330, complete with a picoPSU, so it’s completely silent, apart from the hard drives.

Getting Wake on LAN to work on the POV motherboard wasn’t particularly easy. The settings in the BIOS weren’t clear. PME is a Power Management Event. It also has wake-on-ring. I enable both, but WOL still wasn’t working. Read the rest of this entry »

Banksy

April 24th, 2010
Banksy
Banksy

We spotted this when walking along Regents Canal, near Camden.

Touring York

April 17th, 2010

Visiting Emma and Miranda in York. We saw the sights like proper tourists. Read the rest of this entry »

Mad Hatter Tea Crawl

April 10th, 2010

For Sarah’s 20th, we went on a Tea Crawl across Sheffield. Read the rest of this entry »

50mm

April 10th, 2010

My favourite photos taken with my favourite lens: a 50mm f/1.4 Read the rest of this entry »

Unbirthday tea crawl across Sheffield

April 9th, 2010

It’s Sarah’s Unbirthday, so we’re celebrating with a Tea Party Read the rest of this entry »

Spotted at work

April 9th, 2010

http://xkcd.com/724/

and now this…

http://www.swfme.com/view/1046212

Northmost London

April 5th, 2010

On Easter Monday, Caroline and I went on a voyage to the edge of civilasation: the Northernmost tip of London.

It’s up a private road in Crews Hill. The M25 marks the boundary, so London is on the south side of the motorway bridge, and wilderness on the other. Read the rest of this entry »