Archive for November, 2005

Xmas presents

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

If anyone out there wants to buy be an Xmas present but doesn’t know what to get, then I’d quite like the following:

A quality filleting knife. Something like this one.
These socks (black). Notice that these don’t have a logo on the cuff.
An attractive golf-style umbrella. Not the ones they sell at Sports World with Donnay [...]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Rhian and I went to the Theatre Royal on Friday night to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was excellent. I thought I’d never laugh whilst watch a Shakespeare play but this had some funny moments.
Some reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

When lager is not beer

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I was unfortunate enough to catch a bit of Friends whilst channel hopping last night. Here’s the piece that lead me to throw my virtual cat at the TV:
ROSS: Shouldn’t the pizza be here by now? I mean, they said thirty minutes or less. Well, how long has it been?
MIKE: (looking at his watch) Eleven [...]

A season in NZ

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Chris is back in the UK after a season playing rugby for Oamaru and North Otago in New Zealand.
North Otago lost their semi-final of the NPC Division Two playoffs to Hawke’s Bay. Here are a few write ups of the match 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and a review of the season. Hawke’s Bay [...]

Firefox extensions

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Here’s a list of the Firefox extensions I use:

Web Developer - Indispensible if you do any sort of web design.
OpenBook - Automatically expands the bookmarks tree when you attempt to add a bookmark.
BugMeNot - Bypass compulsory web registration.
Context Search - Changes the “Web Search for” context item into a menu containing your search plugins. I [...]


Rodney's Search Widget plugged in.