3dprinting Practical 3D Printing - Takeaway cup handle Short backstory: I'm partial to a large cup of takeaway hot chocolate, but not to the heat of the cup, those cardboard sleeves, if even available, are not a lot of help either.
perl Library loans and Goodreads Goodreads has a yearly Reading Challenge, which compares books read within a year to your previously stated target. The hard part is not reading the book though, its updating the Goodreads data. Recently
perl SQLite -> Postgres = Much ranting I'm on a "fun" journey of discovery here, having assumed (oops!) that developing some software using DBIx::Class using the SQLite database, and then switching the code to using Postgres, everything
Photography February Photo Challenge 2015 Welcome to #febphoto2015! The "rules" as usual: I will give out a daily photo challenge target (hopefully on the day before). You/We leave the house on that day and take
Budgeting How To: Personal Finance Part 1 The trick with keeping track of your personal finances is to keep budgets. This may sound tedious (and sometimes it is), but it also gives you the freedom to spend without worrying (as
2015 2015 - Three big things Some plans for this year, three main goals, and some smaller ones around the edges.. 1. House The obvious one, this house needs the roof, render, insulation, boiler, fence and electrics fixing. Then
walking Walking Solo 3 months since my last blog entry, argh! Anyway.. Recently, as it was Get Walking week (or is it month?) I went on a couple of group walks organised by the local Ramblers
Photography Month of tidying/decluttering The month of the February Photo Challenge is over. I hope you enjoyed it! I didn't do too brilliantly, due to the lurgy and some general apathy. I must try harder! I will
tea A good cup of tea 60 seconds on the subject of "A good cup of tea" without hesitation, deviation or repetition, starting now. A good cup of tea, I always find, is one that you make
swindon Learning Ming Dynasty Tonight at the Swindon Board Games group we had some "fun" trying to figure out the rules for Ming Dynasty. After reading the rules several times and in various layers (they
swindon What's on in Swindon? Ok, I've given up trying to figure out how it is that other folks figure out what events are on locally. Bigger and hipper towns seem get better coverage (seem, because I'm not
smartduino Smartduino fun/rant This week I have spent my spare time mostly fiddling with the Smartduino and.. Wondering what good "Views of Swindon" would look like. I'll deal with them in separare blog posts
blogging 52 weeks of blogging 2013 in numbers: Backed 6 kickstarter projects (received 5 including one from 2013) Walked 231 miles in the last half of the year (fitbit's interface doesn't want to give me a sum for
