Office Departure Time: 18:55

Today, it's 25 minutes later than my self-imposed deadline.

I will get better at this, oh yes.


Vox Hunt: This Gets Me Cooking

Book: Show us one of your favorite cookbooks.


This is, without doubt, my favourite and most-used cookbook. I have a very battered and abused copy of this that was given to me by my parents when I went to university 18 years ago, and which I lived out of through the leaner times as a student.

I'm very fond of Chinese food. It's healthy, quick and can be very cheap if you buy carefully.

I don't eat nearly as much of it as I used to, as Lorna isn't nearly as much of a fan of the cuisine as I am. But when I do cook it, I always turn to Ken Hom.

Post in lieu of a Lunch Break

So, back in sunny Sutton and back at the blogface after my weekend of indolence, and already the effects are beginning to wear off. I'm looking at a slightly-stupid workload before my departure for New York and the Movable Type Summit next week.

Heigh-ho.

My plans to take a walk out of the building at least once a day are looking under severe jeopardy right now.

I suppose part of this is to do with switching from a job with a finite amount to work to be achieved each week to one where the more successful you are, the more your workload increases, and in non-predictable, non-linear ways.

I will adjust. It will just take time.


Has Spring Sprung?

I'm taking a brief break from my weekend of indolance to in shopping for food.

And my, isn't it mild? Spring is in the air.

That, or global warning…


Mum & Dad - Spanish Beach 1963

Another one from the growing digital archives



Climbing the RSS mountain

A couple of weeks back, Karl was complaining about hitting 1,000 unread posts in his RSS readers.

As of 9am this morning, this is my unread count…

Looks like it's time for a large pot of coffee, iTunes on quietly (so as not to wake Lorna) and lots of reading.

Human Beatbox in the Kitchen

Last one for now, as e-mailed around by Karl:

Kitchen diaries




Vox Hunt: I Miss This Show

Video: Show us a clip of a TV show you miss.

The Goodies - How to Make Babies by Doing Dirty Things
Goodies! Goodie, Goodie, Yum, Yum!

These three acheived a level of pure visual comedy (the show was very much an adult TV version of comics like The Beano) that has rarely been neared since.

Beware The Baby Panda!

Stolen without shame from Jay Allen:

Sneezing Panda


Torn - mimed

This came up on the Ravens GuildChat list earlier (which is pretty off-topic for a World of Warcraft guild, but there you go…) and I just couldn't resist reVoxing it:

Torn by David Armand

My brother and his wife bought me this DVD for Christmas and I was in tears of laughter watching this sequence the first time around.