I’m staying this week in Mestre. Which was described by a colleague as ‘the Slough of Venice’. Which is probably not a bad analogy The Venice Festival is on right now, and allegedly it can take up to 90 minutes to get from here (to all intents and purposes at the end of the causeway [...]
At the weekend I visited the Science Museum in South Kensington, London with my parents. I think the first time I went there was a school trip when I was about 9 or 10, and I’ve been quite a few times between now and then, but not recently. It’s fantastic! It starts off well – [...]
One of the other passengers on both the flights to and from Bucharest was none other than Sir Cliff Richard! My Mum is dead jealous
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Posted 02 May 2006
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I was in Hamburg for most of last week, upgrading a customer’s system. I stayed at the Park Hyatt hotel, which was fabulous, as usual. I have stayed here before, when I was installing the system originally way back in 2001. In fact, when I installed the system I made several visits to Hamburg. I [...]
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Posted 27 November 2005
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I’ve had a Navman 630 for some months now, and I’m very happy with it. The 630 is the predecessor to the 650. The big difference is the 630 uses an SD card to store the maps (limited to 256Mb by the hardware), whereas the 650 uses an internal 2Gb hard disk. The disk is [...]
Previously, I’ve mainly stayed at the Hilton hotel in Prague. Recently I was upgraded to a Gold HHonors card (the Hilton frequent sleeper card) which means you are automatically upgraded to an executive room and you get access to the executive lounge. Both of which make your life much more pleasant This time I’m staying [...]
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Posted 27 August 2004
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Saturday just passed I went down to Brighton for the Pride celebrations. I popped down with Ruth in Das Loony Mobile* (DLM) and we met Martyn down there. We also saw, briefly, George, Gordon and Fiona. Of course, we were too late to see the parade, but we did pop along to Preston Park, which [...]
Saturday just gone I went to Bletchley Park (again) with Martyn and Robert. We met a bunch of friends at the Park and had a fab day. The highlight of the day for me was seeing the Colossus in action. Don’t let anyone convince you the Americans made the Worlds First Computer. That honour goes [...]
This evening I had dinner with my friend Michael, who I haven’t seen for ages. We used to work together 2 jobs and about 5 years ago. Michael is an Evil Landlord, although 5 years ago we did computer systems for airlines. In fact, he’s a Fabulous Chap and a Stout Fellow to boot. He [...]
I was working in Aldgate in London today (Monday). I should be there tomorrow and the next day too, if it were not for the fact of the RMT Tube Strike tomorrow night (for 24 hours). So, I’ll probably have a short day tomorrow, then go back again on Thursday. Hopefully the trains will be [...]