BrewDog Beer Bash
Wed 2010-07-14 11:57
On Saturday June 19th I held a little BrewDog beer tasting. The tasting list was, in my opinion, impressive. We sampled the 10 brews pictured below, from left to right – they're ordered by %ABV. The beers range in strength from a mere 4.1% for the Trashy Blonde through to a whopping order-of-magnitude increase to 41% for the Sink the Bismark.
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Photos for Kat
Mon 2010-07-12 00:25
These are just a few photos for Kat, though they will probably also interest my family so I'm putting them up here. (Kat's stuck down in Sydney while I have a pretty decent summer, weather wise, up here in England on my own. :-( )
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Polaris Challenge, Summer 2010
Tue 2010-07-06 22:41
Over the weekend of the 12th and 13th of June I participated in my first ever organised cycling event, the titular Polaris Challenge. It's been a while now, but finally I have completed this write-up of my experience. Most of the delay comes down to crunching data, as usual… I've had to write and modify code to get the maps and graphs ready.
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Namur in May
Sat 2010-05-29 19:09
It's been a couple of weeks since our little weekender in Namur, Belgium. As usual getting straight into work, especially with a big beta release coming up, meant getting on with writing an entry was somewhat delayed. I put together some notes while returning on the Eurostar train and rather than attempt to write anything detailed about the trip I'll stick to these few snippets and some photos – with such a plan perhaps I will actually finish this!
Citadelle of Namur
We arrived in Namur on the evening of Friday May 14th and settled into our hotel, Les Tanneurs de Namur, taking a few moments to admire our room. Rarely do I have the opportunity to describe a hotel room as sumptuous, as I usually book hotels with the mindset of just wanting somewhere simple, but clean, to sleep. In this case the hotel was somewhat more expensive than I'd usually bother with. This was because I'd thought two weeks was reasonable notice for booking a hotel but hadn't realised that quite a large festival was taking place in Namur over the weekend of our visit! C'est la vie! The room even had a lamp with built in speakers and iPhone dock, most convenient since I had forgotten my iPhone cable!
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May 14 @ 09:13 Namur en Mai
May 05 @ 10:16 No More Facebook
Mar 22 @ 00:11 Borough, Ndjua, Pasta & Bread
Mar 04 @ 01:01 Pigeon and Potato Salad
Jan 09 @ 20:38 Snow!
Dec 29 @ 23:48 The Nightingale
Nov 03 @ 19:19 Happy retirement GSSP-C!
Oct 21 @ 22:03 Backporting an Ubuntu/Debian Package - spatialite for Jaunty
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Sep 20 @ 20:38 Cornwall, August 2009
Aug 31 @ 21:01 Café Snowdon
Aug 16 @ 19:49 Lakes Day 7 - Three Tarns
Aug 02 @ 23:10 Lakes Day 6 - Great Langdale
Aug 02 @ 21:37 Lakes Day 5 - Pottering About
Aug 02 @ 19:43 Comments
Jul 30 @ 00:31 Lakes Day 4 - Walna Scar Road
Jul 28 @ 00:15 Lakes Day 3 - The Harter Fell Ordeal
Jul 27 @ 01:17 Lakes Day 2 - Café Scafell
Jul 26 @ 19:05 Lakes Day 1 - Getting There
Jul 03 @ 08:27 Stour Valley Path
Jun 21 @ 20:33 Expedition Planning
Jun 15 @ 00:24 Preliminary Lakes Route
Jun 14 @ 20:02 Belated Postcard from Barcelona
May 18 @ 09:49 Barcelona, Day 1
Apr 18 @ 20:14 Tulips
Apr 12 @ 18:52 Chunky Beetroot, Celeriac, and Potato Soup
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Feb 15 @ 20:16 Got the Whole Process Wrong?
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