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

Just followed this sponsored link from gmail – it tells you which snowboarding resorts (not ski resorts) are still open in North America. It’s the middle of May and a couple of resorts in Colorado have still got snow and are open!…. Boo hooo… I want to be there. NOW.