Mairi’s Home

For those of you without children, you won’t realise that the time you want to spend with them rises exponentially when you bring the second one home. But I would’t change anything about my family for the world.

Replacing Psi-Win: A Desktop FTP Server for the Psion Netbook

Use the Psion NetBook’s built in FTP client, with its Wi-Fi connectivity, to create a stable replacement for Psi-Win on Windows, Mac or Linux.

The Perfect Voice Recognition System?

This came up in an email conversation yesterday. If you had a perfect voicemail recognition system on your PC, would you loose the keyboard? I don;t think the perfect system exists, or will do in the near future. My personal test, as always, is how will a voice rec system cope with “URL. H. Tea. [...]

Station List and Team Update

We’re up to five teams for the Zone 1 Challenge. Joining Geoff and Neil, is myself (now looking for running partners), Imajes and company from #joiito, Adham (via emil) and Jody. One thing that Jody was asking for was a complete list of the stations that have to be visited, so here it is…

Mairi Caitlin Spence

Mairi Caitlin Spence was born at 10.52, weighing 7 lbs 14 ozs. Mother and daughter are doing fine. So’s this proud Dad. More later…

Tube Challenge Dates and Rules

There’s four teams entered now, including the probably World Record Holders. Plus a quick re-cap of the rules.

Join Me In My Farewell “Do Somthing Mad in London”

Since reading Tunnel Vision, and coming across an article in the Evening Standard about the idea of visiting every Tube Station on the London Underground in one day, I’ve wanted to attempt it, but know that it would take too long, and take too much planning.
Jody, on the other hand, really wants to give it [...]

Time To Go Home

For those of you who I’ve not grabbed on IRC over the last few days, let me tell you the news. Vikki and I are moving back to Scotland as soon as possible after the baby is born. We’re due into Whipss Cross Hospital for a C-Section this Monday coming (12th July) and all being [...]

Change in the CSS Colours

Well I was getting a bit bored with the charcoal look, so I’ve switched the CSS over to a black text light background with spot colours in purple. I like it, I’ve only 5 readers, so I can pretty much do what I like, okay?

What’s Been Happening at Fun-1

In the middle of May, Fun-1 announced itself to the Internet – Jim and I had been writing for it and posting links to the sideblog in “Lurk Mode” since early March, and we had passed round the temporary URL to friends to get their opinions of the site. But it was in the [...]

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