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Matt Taylor has more on what we can expect from Monday's storm and the areas most likely to be affected by strong winds and heavy rain. Commuters are being warned of travel disruption on Monday as a storm bringing hurricane-force winds and rain starts moving across England and Wales.  Three ...

So I was caught up in the change from LlloydsTsb to Lloyds/TSB. I was with TSB originally, then got merged in to the big group, and now they are splitting up again, I am going back to my roots! (And also taking the opportunity to move all my accounts to one place, rather than having the...

I have been writing software for around 30 years - half of that professionally.  In that time I have written software in 13 different programming languages, all with their own quirks and foibles, and their own development environments. So while I can not claim to be the source of a...

For reasons that I have no real desire to explain, I am entirely done with Twitter. So where as before I would go on there and rant about the dumb-ass politics this world seems to be drowning in, or about the utter moronity (which I am pretty sure is not actually a word, and n...

 Sadly I seem to be falling back in to my old patterns of diary keeping - that is I write a lot at the start, then tend to tail off a little and start writing very sporadically indeed.  Now, part of that is down to having major heart surgery, and getting back in to the…

Today was my first day back at work - the first time I have been in the office since the 15th of February.      Mostly I was there to sync up my laptop, because I was having major VPN issues and locking my account out of the network every five seconds (which was not…

So tomorrow is my first appt ay the Stroke OPC, and I am a bit worried that they will tell me my hand is as good as it is going to get. Except it is my right hand, that I use for typing, and for writing. Both of which I do at work quite a…

I spent a fair part of today (in fact, a fair part of this week) installing a test system at a customer shop. They have a branch at The Hive, but this is another branch set up in a shopping centre about fifty miles away.  The system is setup in two parts - the management…

Because I have been spending most of the last twenty seven days writing stories, I really haven't had either the time or the inclination to write that many diary entries. So - here's what the last twenty seven days of my life consisted of (excluding the parts where I was writing for NaNo of cours...

The last two days of field testing did not go as well as I'd hoped. While we were doing some testing in The Christian Book shop, we (the owner and I) noticed something was going on with one of the detection subsystems. Something that hadn't shown up in the Alpha and Beta testing, and definit...