Antediluvian Peds
Posted in Railways on 20th July 2007
My summer weekend off crept up on me rather unexpectedly this year. Since I wasn't attending a conference this summer, and also because my planned railtour this coming Sunday was cancelled due to low bookings, I'd all but forgotten the trip to York and the tickets for the Minehead to...
Twenties Plenty
Posted in Railways on 14th July 2007
Despite a miserable and damp morning it felt good to be going somewhere today. After news of yet another tour cancellation next week, and more work-related strangeness I needed something to work out - and happily today ran pretty smoothly. I'd tried to plan a few hours at the Barrow...
Denzil Rides Again
Posted in Computers on 27th June 2007
Many years ago, as part of a project to make lots of tiny applications, I wrote a web browser. It linked with the Gecko rendering engine from Mozilla and even though you had to have a whacking Mozilla install around, it was a quick and useful way to view URLs...