P-a-r-t-y….y? dunno…

New stupid content on the Anorak: this year, the support staff in my building are organising another party to celebrate the end of another year. Two years ago, we organised a grand event at Brown’s in Covent Garden – with a PA, lighting and an awards ceremony. This took the form of a series of… Continue reading P-a-r-t-y….y? dunno…

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Ben’s travels

Managed to get most of “Ben’s Travels” completed this weekend. Its doubly useful – firstly I’ve been meaning to get ben’s site sorted for ages, but I’ll be able to reuse the code and layout for other parts of the travel section – particularly the photo galleries from Prague, Tallinn, Stockholm and (new!!) Rome. We’ve… Continue reading Ben’s travels

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Testing the new layout

Finally, it looks like we’re getting somewhere with the interminable redesign. After donkeys fiddling about, its finally close to a useful design. Hurrah. Now I just need to fix the practicalities.

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Travellers’ caution

A travellers caution. Beware all forms of transport not involving your legs! A brief list of our travel woes: No train service on Sundays to Stansted for…umm…the forseeable future (track ‘maintenance’, hmmpf) The 7:45 National Express/Airbus A6 to Stansted, which helpfully left at 7:30 without bothering to announce this to the 15 or so passengers… Continue reading Travellers’ caution

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Wome – Wonderful Wome

No, I’m not tired of that joke yet. Well, we’re back from Rome, and it was an amazing place. You can’t chuck a meatball without hitting some massively grand 2000-year old monolith/ruin/building/pope. Fantastic. We spent a couple of days wandering about, having first taken a 2-hour bus trip around the city, to get our bearings.… Continue reading Wome – Wonderful Wome

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