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Past acquaintances

In the first proper night out I've had in Northampton since I moved back, it was weird seeing so many old acquaintances that I haven't seen in a long time, without actually trying! I sometimes forget that I spent most of my life here, and that no matter what some of that is going to filter back into my life...

Bored commuters

The one thing that has always made me curious, from the time way back when I was commuting from Loughborough to Nottingham, to now with my journey from Northampton to London, is how some people can sit there and do absolutely nothing day after day.

Importing into Drupal

Considering I spend all day at the moment doing integration work I would be quite annoyed if I hadn't managed to pull in all my old Wordpress blog posts. I had a look at the module available, but didn't want to pull any additional fluff over so did it programmatically with an import script, aided by

Coming up for air

Wow... it's been a long time since I've put a post online, in any shape or form (except for the odd comment on Planet-F1) due to what can only be described as the chaos of London. Well, that's not strictly true, but the whirlwind adventure of the entire of 2008, along with struggling to complete long-overdue freelance work, plus moving jobs and lots of dates and thus girlfriends (after over 2...

Free from freelance

Finally, after weeks of torture, I've finally managed to get a release of the web application that I've been working on to the client. Admittedly I've had a while to do it, but with two job changes, moving and a new city, plus trying to make new friends, sort out hobbies both old and new, and keep in touch, it's all been a bit too much. 80 hours this last week proves that much. On one hand I'm...

No time, no time at all

It's gone midnight and although back in the day I'd be up raring for another few hours of instant messinging, I find myself flagging after a bank holiday trying to catch up with weeks worth of emails, messages, texts and allsorts...

Domestication

After reading a post on Megatokyo it made me think about how things have changed for me since leaving home (to go to University) to where I am now. Unlike a lot of my friends I've never moved back home other than the occasional few weeks here and there between places so I haven't gotten accustomed to 'things being washed' or 'dinner being ready' for a good few years now. Except that now I realise...

House prices in the UK

Well, after all the faff that we've had to listen to over the last few years about skyrocking house prices, it's all finally starting to fall apart. The British public are now worried about repossessions and negative equity, and all sorts of pundits are appearing on various news clips to give their 2 cents, especially as to how to rectify this situation.

Between jobs

I would say "it's that time again" but that would be a bit premature, seeing as I didn't expect to be looking for another job for at least a year, let alone have already gone through that process, gotten a job and have spent today as my first day off (and failing miserably at Super Paper Mario, which was kinda embarrasing...)Â but after only 3 months I've decided to leave where I was in search of...