A Very Early Warning

the_mendicant and I have been thinking about our holiday plans.

A friend of ours has a large villa (half converted leather tannery) in the Ardeche region of Southern France. Its isolated, sleeps about 16, has a pool and loads of camping space.

We were thinking that some of you might like to join us for all or some of the time we're planning to be there. It's unlikely that we'll be able to book it for this Summer, but August 2004 is a distinct possibility.

Let me know if you'd be interested for this year, or next.

Bonne Vacances

A Very Early Warning

the_mendicant and I have been thinking about our holiday plans.

A friend of ours has a large villa (half converted leather tannery) in the Ardeche region of Southern France. Its isolated, sleeps about 16, has a pool and loads of camping space.

We were thinking that some of you might like to join us for all or some of the time we're planning to be there. It's unlikely that we'll be able to book it for this Summer, but August 2004 is a distinct possibility.

Let me know if you'd be interested for this year, or next.

Bonne Vacances

I've decided that today is day 1

First day at the office in Hong Kong and I've accomplished something very close to bugger all! I have been defeated by technology and have been unable to connect back to the UK to check my e-mails or access any of my files. Which aren't on my laptop, because I had to change laptops 20 minutes before leaving the building last Friday – joy.

However, I did manage to get a good night's sleep last night – 3 bottles of Tsing Tao beer followed by a sleeping tablet worked wonders so I feel about as human as I could expect to be today. I've also met the team here in Hong Kong and started re-planning their project with them. They seem a keen bunch, but learning their names and telling them apart is going to be difficult because they look similar and wear RS team jackets whenever we head out of the office.

Stop Press Can now actually dial-in to the UK – no more excuses for not working – ho humm

I've decided that today is day 1

First day at the office in Hong Kong and I've accomplished something very close to bugger all! I have been defeated by technology and have been unable to connect back to the UK to check my e-mails or access any of my files. Which aren't on my laptop, because I had to change laptops 20 minutes before leaving the building last Friday – joy.

However, I did manage to get a good night's sleep last night – 3 bottles of Tsing Tao beer followed by a sleeping tablet worked wonders so I feel about as human as I could expect to be today. I've also met the team here in Hong Kong and started re-planning their project with them. They seem a keen bunch, but learning their names and telling them apart is going to be difficult because they look similar and wear RS team jackets whenever we head out of the office.

Stop Press Can now actually dial-in to the UK – no more excuses for not working – ho humm

Am I Missing Something? (First in an unlimited series of rants)

I’ve just been sitting in my hotel listening to MTV and I’ve heard a track that’s made me want to vote for censorship in all its forms! What track? I hear you cry:
The Big Yellow Taxi Cab Song – by Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton
I adored the original by Joni Mitchell and its got to be somewhere in my personal top 100, but this version is an absolute travesty. It’s taken all the bite out of the original and reduced it to some middle of the road crap. To make matters worse it seems to have been written for the soundtrack of the latest Huge Grunt film where he waves his fringe at Sundry Bollocks (is it called 14 days?) This means that it’ll be on every radio station’s playlists and I’ll get it dumped in my head…in fact. It’s there now. Aargh! No, no, no!
It shouldn’t be allowed!

Mood: Ranty
Reading: The Shadow in the North – Philip Pullman..highly entertaining

Am I Missing Something? (First in an unlimited series of rants)

I’ve just been sitting in my hotel listening to MTV and I’ve heard a track that’s made me want to vote for censorship in all its forms! What track? I hear you cry:
The Big Yellow Taxi Cab Song – by Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton
I adored the original by Joni Mitchell and its got to be somewhere in my personal top 100, but this version is an absolute travesty. It’s taken all the bite out of the original and reduced it to some middle of the road crap. To make matters worse it seems to have been written for the soundtrack of the latest Huge Grunt film where he waves his fringe at Sundry Bollocks (is it called 14 days?) This means that it’ll be on every radio station’s playlists and I’ll get it dumped in my head…in fact. It’s there now. Aargh! No, no, no!
It shouldn’t be allowed!

Mood: Ranty
Reading: The Shadow in the North – Philip Pullman..highly entertaining