Over the weekend months and months of planning and discussion came to fruition in the form of the sixth of the Ayacon series of conventions which started in 1998, of which this is my second time working as a committee member (although in 2005 my role was mostly 'in name only' as I was on honeymoon the weekend of the event ( Read more... )

My exercise in breathing new life into old hardware has taken another couple of steps forward - the first being the arrival of some drive belts for my Amstrad 3" floppy drives from PCW enthusiast John King, the second being the resurrection of my external 3.5" drive (the voltage regulator which provided a 5v supply for this had apparently gotten ( Read more... )

Spend most of today catching up on the housework - a bit dull and domestic but fairly unavoidable, and had a nice meal in town with Laura (marred slightly by a bit of a headache which had been creeping up on me all afternoon).

Inspired by seeing the film we've finally made our minds up and booked tickets for Ten Years of ATP this December, which ( Read more... )

Had an evening that was in different parts fun and eventful ( Read more... )

Something I've been doing for the last few months and haven't written about yet is that I'm now a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network ( Read more... )

Had the 1-year on check on my hip yesterday ( Read more... )

I was back in Coventry yesterday for another visit to Warwick university. The weather made for a very pleasant drive down, and the traffic was light enough for me to make good time ( Read more... )

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This weekend we were down south for Minamicon, Britain's longest running Anime convention and now in its 15th year ( Read more... )

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