Well, tonight was the John Lewis Partnership Music Society’s summer concert, “An Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein”, in Cadogan Hall. We had glittery cowboy hats and brightly coloured shirts and lots of fun. I was on timpani, with my friend Zoë-Laura on tuned percussion, and it was a lot of fun. The radio-mics seemed to [...]

This is mainly to annoy Emma. She mentioned that she’d had to implement a conversion between base 36 and base something-else (64?). I cannot begin to describe how horrible that would be in COBOL. But in Ruby… ;-) Admittedly, to do this more “the Ruby way”, I’d write this as a module, or a mixin, [...]

Well, I went and bought the MacBook. I’m still getting it set up how I want it, but I have transferred all my old email across and got Safari bookmarks & Address Book synchronising nicely between my 2 Macs. I am now sitting in the garden, have sent the emails I wrote whilst on the [...]