In case you haven’t noticed, the site looks a little different today. I decided after 3 years to make the move from Movabletype to WordPress. Movabletype has sucked for quite a while now and the upgrade to version 3.2 really clinched it. Once you have over about 600 entries or so, Movabletype just gets so slow. It was taking about 20 seconds per page change within the management panel (where I post from) which is just abominable when I want [...]

For all those scurvy scoundrels amongst you, it’s that time of the year again. International Talk like a Pirate day has come around again and I shall be celebrating for the second year. I have tried so far today to keep to pirate lingo, though I don’t think my boss really appreciates it when I call users that I’m speaking to ‘landlubbers’, especially since things are going so horribly wrong today and server outages are rife around the company. Arrr [...]

Laura, her family and I are off to the Abergavenny food festival for the weekend. Cheese, wine, meat and mmm..Welsh spirit tasting galore. It’s a two day event, so we’re staying the night at the Bear Hotel just outside Abergavenny, in Crickhowell. Abergavenny and Crickhowell are two idyllic country villages in Mid-Wales, typical country hospitality and atmosphere is expected, and will be a welcome break from the go-go city rush that I live every day being resident in Wales’ capital [...]

I have to say that I wasn’t particularly surprised at some of the facts and figures that the Beeb has published today regarding Petrol duty (aka. Fuel Tax) and the spending of said duty. We all know that there are more cars on the road right now that ever, so therefor there is record amounts of tax being taken by the government from road tax, petrol duty and so on and so forth, but to find that from the £37bn [...]

I think that Steve Bell, cartoonist at The Guardian has hit the nail right on the head with this one You can all draw your own conclusions.