The ex-ex-mole scar

February 23, 2007

For those of you interested, the wound is healing very well indeed. My doctor did a good job, and it's a very neat scar. It's still a bit painful at times, when I reach too far, or when I bump it, or my jacket pulls tight over it, but I really can't complain now. I […]

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The Cake Project: A success and a failure, all in one

February 22, 2007

Over three months ago I pledged to give up sugary drinks for, well, three months. “I will stop drinking sugary drinks for three months but only if 20 other people will do the same.” A 1000ml box of Cranberry juice contains enough sugar to bake 1.17 cakes. A 500ml bottle of Coke has the same […]

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Alpha testing my engagement ring

February 20, 2007

Last Tuesday, as I was on my way up to Manchester for a conference, Kevin asked me to swing past Farringdon briefly. We met up at the tube station, and he produced from the depths of his venerable TedGlobal bag a small padded envelope. From this padded envelope, he produced a silver ring – the […]

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Who knew?

February 12, 2007

Thank you to everyone who has sent us congratulations. We've had so many cards, emails, IMs, Twitters, messages via IRC, Second Life and carrier pigeon. Ok, I made that last one up, but still, thank you all. I have so many emails to reply to, it's quite overwhelming, but in a nice way. Overwhelming in […]

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Poignant

February 8, 2007

There is something supremely sad about the photograph in this article.

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The Ex-Ex-Mole

February 8, 2007

Well, that's the second minor op over and done with. My surgeon removed 5mm all the way round the existing scar, and has sent that off for analysis too. I now have a much longer incision, which I'll take pics of in a few days when it's had a chance to settle. The other scar […]

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Caught by the Hot Fuzz

February 6, 2007

Last night, ten days ahead of general release, I was lucky enough to see Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost's latest masterpiece, Hot Fuzz. I haven't really managed to keep abreast of the Hot Fuzz pre-release news, despite being on their mailing list (god knows how far down in my inbox those emails got […]

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Mole news

January 30, 2007

Well, it turned out that my mole wasn't precisely nothing, but it wasn't particularly anything either. It showed 'moderate cytological and architectural atypia', and was a 'dysplastic compound nevus', which all appears to mean that whilst it certainly wasn't a melanoma, given my family history of melanoma, it might one day have considered turning into […]

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On Google Maps, literally

January 30, 2007

What more fun could one have on a hot*, sunny, Sebastopol day than making giant space invaders to be photographed by the Google photographers as they fly over the campus? Not much, I'd say. Last year I was lucky enough to be invited to FooCamp and, whilst we were there, word had it that Google […]

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Engagement 2.0*

January 26, 2007

Yesterday was Dydd Santes Dwynwen, or St Dwynwen's Day, which is the Welsh equivalent of Valentine's Day. Both Kevin and I enjoy appropriating whichever holidays, festivals and notable dates we fancy from other cultures – he celebrates Cinco de Mayo, the “Mexican holiday where they celebrate beating the stuffing out of the French”, as he […]

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Tended to by a celebrity

January 23, 2007

My many thanks to Tom Reynolds, our celebrity EMT, for taking out my stitches yesterday in Cafe Nero. He did an excellent job, although it was rather fiddly as the stitches were pulled rather tight. See how neat my scar is though!

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The podcast with no name, part 1

January 23, 2007

Stephanie Booth and I decided ages ago to do a podcast, just to talk about this, that and the other. It's taken us a while to get our act together, but eventually, last week, we turned on Skype and Call Recorder and we just, well, had a chat. This is roughly what we talked about: […]

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If you're not reading Vince

January 18, 2007

You should be. How can you resist anyone who can weave this so effortlessly into conversation: Yes, that’s a good idea in theory, but I can’t possibly do it because of these monkeys that have just flown up my ass. Seriously, look, my last poop was 90% capuchin.

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My mole hole

January 11, 2007

Alas, poor Moley, I knew him Horatio. I had a dodgy-looking mole removed from my upper left arm this morning. Luckily my doctor is also a minor ops surgeon so there was no need to go to hospital – the doctors' surgery is all shiny and new and purpose built and comes with a variety […]

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WordPress and importing/exporting content Part 2

January 9, 2007

Last month I was struggling with trying to import all my old posts from Blogware into a local WordPress install. Well, I finally managed to get it sorted, sort of. The Blogware import script, written by Shayne Sweeney, that I had found via Chris Pirillo didn't seem to work. Every time I tried to use […]

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