The weekend of painting has arrived – yay!! :o)
Month: March 2008
Along the lines to my letter related entry earlier this week (?), one of the writers for MSN.co.uk has an article about ebooks vs the real thing; http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7791455 It’s not a particularly controversial article, but it rings very true to me. I love gadgets, computers etc (as I said in my recent entry) but Jane is quite right when she said nothing can beat a good paperback! I shall perhaps have spend some quality time with my current paperback tonight in …
I would hazard a guess that it ran off at some point this afternoon when I was on the verge of ripping my monitor off it’s stand and throwing on the floor in a temper tantrum type way! The reason? Stupid bloated development environments. All I want to do is try and find out if a java library is installed. Can I work out how to do it? Of course I can’t because it so bloody complicated to do anything. …
I have been giving this some thought over the last couple of days. I am, quite obviously, a fan of I.T., the tinternet and the brilliance of email. However, I do remember a time when to get in touch with my friends I would dismiss email and write them a letter. Yes, it took longer and cost a bit of money, but the brilliance was that I didn’t just tell them about day-to-day stuff; I would write about general thoughts …
It’s always at times when I am determined to be positive, focused and generally efficient that life seems the need to test me! After meeting the milestone in my rowing career on Saturday and suffering / slightly enjoying the pains of it on Sunday, I decided to be all of the aforementioned things at work this week. Somehow though things have really been trying my nerve and sanity. It was all topped off today by a hail shower a mere …
Emotions are funny things. Today, for the first time, I competed in the Womens Head of the River race on the Thames – a 4.25 mile race from Chiswick Bridge to Putney Pier. Over 252 eights were entered this year – it’s a massive event in the female sporting calendar. Last night I was really nervous – a feeling that had been building in my stomach for the majority of last week. I kept trying to ask myself why I …
