Finally, - we’ve had some proper Spring weather, so it was a chance to go to Mottistone and look at the Bluebells. (And also to see if my N95’s GPS linked camera would play nicely - which it did!).

Also discovered that Gorse bushes appear to smell of Coconut!

I’ve updated The Wight One to be Widget capable, - surprisingly easy thing to do. The main reason for doing it was so that I could make use of the ReadySetFlickr plugin in order to display images from my Flickr account. Once I’m happy that the theme’s working (and when I’ve finally added the CSS for comments) I’ll package it up nicely and make it available for download.

After having tweaked the layout and CSS a little more, Porgy (on the right) no longer breaks things.

The IWSO concert at the weekend went pretty well in the end, - despite the fact that we were unable to perform Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 that we’d prepared (we’re still trying to work out exactly what happened with that one). Chiao-Ying Chang, the pianist instead performed a Liszt piano sonata, which was very well played, even if it wasn’t my favourite piece in the world.

I’m actually slightly relieved that we didn’t do the Concerto, since I wasn’t feeling too well anyway, and the triangle part’s a bit of a pain (I know it sounds daft, but it’s true). I’m blaming Luke for the latest round of illness at work, since he started it…

Work continues on the new theme for this site, but with the IW Cantata Choir concert on Saturday, and rehearsals of one sort or another most evenings this week it’ll be a while before anything much happens.

Shock horror - some form of update!

Actually, I’m mainly doing this as a dry run for upgrading Wordpress to 2.3.2 for other places - if it was going to break any site, I’d rather it be my own. I’m (marginally) less likely to shout at me.
Another reason for this post is that without it, I’d not have made any changes here since 2006!

I fear most of my on-line presence is now at Facebook; I know it’s got a load of privacy issues, but I’m fairly sure I’ve switched off most of the major intrusive bits on my account (aside from the whole not-being-able-to-really-delete-your-account one anyway).

We’re up to 11 staff at DataSwift as of Wednesday - at this rate we’ll need another new office!

Whilst on randomly different topics, I’ve just watched the Bourne Ultimatum, and whilst watching the end credits noticed that there was one for “Pigeon Wrangler”. Also, there were specific credits for Bassoonist and Percussion, but not for the other members of whatever orchestra was used. Most bizarre.

It’s amazing how much better a weekend is when there’s an extra day attached!

The August bank holiday is always a bit crazy on the Island, as several thousand scooters arrive for their annual gathering. Anyone on the roads also runs the risk of getting stuck behind many tonnes of steam-powered vehicle as it’s also the annual Havenstreet Steam Fair.

Well, I’m finally settled in (almost) my flat, just got a few dozen more boxes to sort through (although for now they’re all up in the loft). Since I’m going with work to the LAN tournament in January, I decided I ought to learn how to play Battlefield 2 Special Forces. It took me several attempts before realising I needed a parachute on the first level I played (not having played either this, or the original before, and of course, I hadn’t read any instructions!). Still, once I got that sorted it’s great. I’m rubbish though.
Games seem to be taking longer and longer to install and load these days - it was at least 20 minutes before I could actually play (and my machine’s not exactly a slow beast either).