Bitterjug’s blog

We’re still on ‘ogham.dragonsblood.net’ today, I have not had any reply from the guy who hosts my site despite asking him frequently to switch the domain. I hope he’s well, Murias, are you out there?
One effect of the move to WordPress was that we lost the “Recent Comments” page that was my favourite […]

After months of research by both our intrepid field worker and the boffins at Bitterjug.com labs, we are now able to bring you a miracle of modern technology:

We’ve noticed a proliferation of independent Churches in Kenya, most of them with imaginitive names. It must be hard, we decided, to keep inventing new names for […]

The exams have started here. We, the staff, can relax a bit. For me it means the end of classroom teaching in Kenya for good. And I mean “for good”, I can’t claim to have enjoyed it. But the exam season itself has brought us some entertainment of its own.
The universtiy have sent […]

Welcome!
I have switched over from Greymatter to WordPress and you are now reading Bitterjug’s blog at its new home. If your browser is pointing to a server called ‘ogham.dragonsblood.net’ then we’re still in the process of moving the domain to its new home — don’t bookmark that page. If it says ‘bitterjug.com’, we’re all through; […]

I’ve work to do for the college, Jackson is somewhere around my house and those new floppy drives need to be tested in his laptop, there is one final test to write for my students and…. Im farting about with the blog.
Nothing new there then! I have had to learn some PHP this week, […]

Work on the all-new Bitterjug.com blog is moving on apace:

WordPress is installed and running.
A new version of the home page has been built using PHP rather than Perl and server-side includes.
The new home page uses WordPress’ RSS feeds to fetch the latest blog entry and comments.

Yet to do:

Switch servers […]

Just back from that Nairobi on a mission :-

Get my Javascript Notes bound into a book
Fax the College’s certificate of registration to KENIC to get our domain name application approved
Ask the customs office to reduce the duty they want me to pay on a parcel from Uncle Mungbean in the UK

this is what happened…

These are […]

Or so this bycicle taxi pilot seems to believe…

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Sometimes, teaching these young ladies, I think I know just how he feels.
Never mind, this is the first day of the last week of term; my last week teaching at this place. I absolutely won’t do it any more. At the end of this term I […]

It doesn’t say anything.

Actually I somehow managed to post the “It’s All Useless” entry twice and Im just changing the first one to this to avoid making the blog even more confusing than it already is. There doesn’t seem to be a delete function in Greymatter. But if I ever get a reply from my […]

He’s on the roof again.

I think he must like it up there….

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It’s all about this:

(one day these will be as valuable as Da Vinci’s, and Bill Gates will want to buy them! — maybe)
It’s made of a cooking oil bottle, a margerine tub lid, a spice jar, a whisky bottle top, a cork and […]