Author: Keith

Off to Ireland this weekend – starting in Dublin, then to county Offaly, to Kinnity Castle for a wedding. Then…well, it all gets a bit vague. I really fancy visiting a few distilleries – Midleton has potential, but sadly I don’t think we’ll make it to Bushmills, more’s the pity – Bushmills malt is lovely… Continue reading Ireland

After a recent upgrade to Windows XP at work, I ran in to a problem opening photoshop, where I would get the very helpful error message: Could not initialize Photoshop because the file is locked. User ‘Properties’ command in the Windows explorer to unlock the file It turned out that I didn’t have access permissions… Continue reading Photoshop file permissions

Listening to the album Bari by Ojos de Brujo – well worth a listen. It’s sort of new flamenco crossed with latin rap. Very cool, and working better than The Hacker was earlier, although Reves Mechaniques is a very good album.

The update system’s fixed. How come? Because I have some development to do for work and had to recreate the local mirror of theanorak.org. Good news: I haven’t forgotten everything. Not quite, anyhow. So, on with the show, and hopefully quite a few updates – I know that Lou’s written a few things which she… Continue reading Relief

…and it’s a bit of a statement of intent. Of late I’ve been very slack and posted neither new entries to the diary, or any of the tons’o’stuff waiting to go in the travel section. So before I do anything else, Lou’s photos from India (part 2), some photos of Florida (part 2) and our… Continue reading First post of 2005…