One of our Marketing people just sent out an extremely excitable all-staffer to tell us that our venerable company had been name checked in an article on BBC News ( Read more... )

Noticed that the BBC website is running a tad slow? That's because Fearne Cotton just said on her Radio 1 show that there's a picture of her with enhanced, much larger breasts on her page of the website.

1 song later, she asked people to stop going to the site because it's creaking under the strain.

Earlier today, I talked on our wedding blog about deciding how to go on a diet. Every Thursday afternoon at my office we have biscuit time, a social event lasting half an hour or so where we chat, drink tea and eat biscuits ( Read more... )

Today, the BBC reported a story about people building complicated, intricate designs out of lego. They mentioned a package called LDraw, which is CAD software for lego. Being a bit of a nerd, I went to have a look at it and see what it does. And then I found... this. It's an emacs extension to let you write LDraw files. Yes, someone has created ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who came along (and brought tasty alcohol!) to the murder mystery party on Friday. It may have been one of the best yet - multi-coloured drinks, some fabulous costumes and accents, best robot ever, etc etc. I wish I'd given myself more time to prepare, though; Friday was an insanely hectic day even with Matt Reynold's help and ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention at the time, but You Can't Please Everyone has produced possibly the funniest piece of concentrated ignorance ever committed to pixels (from a review of Animal Farm):

This book was terible. I was forced into reading this book in school. Which is no surprise, this is exactly the kind of book our government wants to force people ( Read more... )

Today I was bemused by the idea of shattered bacon, and reading through the comments I came across someone whose bacon-related abuse of Americans amused me sufficiently that I popped over to their blog to find out more about them. And the first thing I noticed was a plug for Dan's lj-to-google reader converter.

P.S. I am in a rare linky mood today

So I've been researching what it is that astronauts eat, in preparation for next week's party. And I found this recipe, published by NASA, for tofu with hot mustard sauce (one of 250 dishes astronauts can choose to eat while on missions, although they have to make menu decisions up to a year in advance): Read more... )

I'm not enjoying life at the moment. It's difficult to put into words what's wrong; living in Oxford and travelling home at regular intervals is harder than I ever imagined it could be. My job is not that bad (although a lot less fun than it used to be), and Caro and Jerry are nice enough (but we have our tensions), but when I'm in Oxford I feel ( Read more... )

JTA and I have a cool, shiny purple wedding website now at http://www.r-jta.info/ - thanks Dan ( Read more... )