Entries from December 2007
Off to Glasgow on a whim
December 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment
After deciding with some friends that we would definatly NOT be trapped at some crap Church New Years event (no offence to those who run good ones!) and being way too late for Edinburghs famous hogmanay, we booked a nice 4 star apartment in central Glasgow, withouts tickets to the main even we’ll be barrier [...]
Tags: Hat Tips · Technology · Web 2.0
Blackberry 8310 upgrade
December 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment
After having the Blackberry 8700g for about a year at work and really getting to grips with some of the basic functionality, which in fact I think is much under used. Most of my colleagues simply use their blackberrys as email readers, they dont even try to read the attachments. It seems a rule with [...]
Tags: Technology
Travel Blog: Back Home
December 27th, 2007 · Comments Off
Well as I mentioned in the last few posts I ended up just taking pictures and enjoying the break instead of blogging (which I equally enjoy, but is more a solo pursuit, and a time consuming one), but we are finally home, though not without adventure.After the last blog Rachel had a few nasty falls [...]
Travel Blog: First day on the slopes
December 17th, 2007 · Comments Off
Today was our first day of snowboarding, first we headedinto Kranjska Gora to buy a new hat for rachel. Then we went back to the hostel is meet our snowboard tutor "dario" who drives a clapped out old vauxhall vectra with drum and bass blasting out but is a nice guy all the same! After [...]
Tags: travel
Travel Blog: Arrived in Slovenia
December 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
We arrived last night after not too much bother apart from having to change our airport transfer tickets and using up some of our GBP on over priced mini cans of coke on the easyjet flight.Once we collected our baggage and got the car rental place, who it seemed weren’t having a great night of [...]
Travel Blog: Flying with Easyjet…
December 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment
…has so far not been as bad as I expected! we did encounter the cattle like rush for the best seats, but being a seasoned airline blagger I managed to get us an emergency exit seat.I had to admit to feeling slightly cheap (I know Im a hidious snob) while in the queue for the [...]
Tags: travel
Off to the Alps thanks to google
December 15th, 2007 · Comments Off
Well at least in part to google… …As you may have noticed there hasn’t quite been the usual level of blogging this week, this is mostly to do with the fact that I am working like a mad man at work to allow myself a week off before Christmas to go snowboarding in the alps. [...]
Tags: My Life · Technology · The World · Web 2.0 · travel
Golden Compass – Fuss over nothing?
December 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I saw the Golden Compass over the weekend, really enjoyed it and am perplexed as to why there is so much outrage about it. Quite possibly a clever marketing scam? If so they have many hooked and lined. I am willing to be wrong and deny my desire to see the rest of the movies [...]
Tags: Church · Entertainment · Miscellaneous
YWAM Colorado Shootings
December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off
I heard about this last night from a few of my friends who are in YWAM, it is a horrendous tragedy and no words can express the grief and pain that these circumstances merit. Please be praying for the families of those who have lost, the two guys who survived who will undoubtedly be suffering [...]
Tags: Christian Living · The World
I got passed the hot potato
December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off
It seems I expressed one too many technical points in a meeting today and it was formally decided that I should manage the next stage of web development for the company. This is not a good thing, although I would be happy to do this, were it my only job, but unfortunatly commerical web can [...]
Tags: Blogging · Miscellaneous · My Life · Technology · Web 2.0
