Bitterjug’s blog

If this is the answer, what was the question?
Oh yeah, how old am I?
Lovely to spend the day at Energise rather than at the BBC, though, and even better to spend the evening with Nic at Sagar: south Indian vegetarian restaurant in Hammersmith. We had a double celebration as this was her last day at […]

Just received this certificate in the post:
CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER
In the art of Neurolinguistic Programming
Once a programmer always a programmer, heh?

I cooked Ugali yesterday. Solidarity with my Kenyan friends. Mr Kioko has had some property destroyed but, to the best of my knowledge, most of my friends are safe. Let it stay that way.
Ugali is a staple foodstuff in the part of Kenya I was in, it is made of maize-meal and water. […]

Someone who still reads this once commented that I don’t put much personal news up here. So here goes with a whole bunch of news:

This week Nic and I will complete our NLP Practitioner Certification, which we have been doing since last year. I’m excited about this: I love the idea of having a qualification […]

This week I returned to London and moved in with Nic. In typical style, I undertook this important milestone in our lives together… on my own. I returned from France while she was on vacation and moved in and unpacked while she was away. Yes, she was expecting it. In fact we’re both very happy […]

When it’s quiet, down from the plastic trees fly small birds. Sparrows; to clean up les morceaux du croissant under the tables. Their legs splay as their feet slip on the ceramic tiles.
Something orange! A crushed Tic-Tac, it’s dust too fine to peck, the broken pieces too large to swallow. They hold them in their […]

Last weekend I went to see Prince at the O2. I’ve managed to grow up without knowing much about him, when I was a kid he was just some little pooftah playing music I didn’t understand. I knew enough, however, to expect a good show and, besides, it was Nic and her sister who got […]

This almost didn’t happen. I almost didn’t go. What’s wrong with me?
I’ve mentioned here before that I feel lonely in France. My experience with the people is difficult, its hard to say whether or not I find them friendly: civil but unwelcoming. And I recognize that this is a two way thing. I believe […]

Tonight I’m baking for La Fete De La Musique tomorrow; my work wants to supplement the music with an international buffet put on the foreign researchers at the lab. Hard to think what to make that is “traditionally British”. I know cream teas are an afternoon affair, but it just seems so right.

The Wikipedia […]

I just upgraded the RAM in my laptop. I had to trawl the web to find some instructions; there weren’t any in the manual. So for anyone else out there who has a Medion Akoya LS, SIM 2010 or the equivalent MSI Megabook S260 or any of its derivatives, here is how I did it. […]