Jasp’s Blog

One of my cats, Peppy, died about 45 minutes ago. My brother heard him making ‘whiny’ sounds and found him on the landing, almost immediately realising something wasn’t quite right. I arrived to hear a faint whine/meow with the last breath.
None of use realy suspected it. We knew he had a bad heart, he [...]

It appears that 2006 is going to crawl in fairly quietly for me this year as new years plans came to rather little. Way back in September I had intended to be in Edinburgh for new year, but within a few weeks of moving up plans had to be made, stress levels were faily high [...]

On going home I decided to bring my recipe book, a small hard backed notebook which I use to collect recipes from different sources. On copying down various family favourites I was struck by the similarities between recipe distribution and the attitudes of the ‘copyleft’ movement.
My mums collection of recipes from various sources: friends, relatives, [...]

I finished in the lab yesterday, and managed to be completely rubbish when it came to actually getting packed, I still have to stuff phones/cameras/MP3 players etc. in my bag.
Unfortunately I have a long five and a half hour train journey ahead of me before I reach Cheltneham. I’ve got myself a book to read [...]

To those of you who know not of Sir Tim Berners-Lee then I can truthfully say that without him you wouldn’t be reading this at the moment, this blog wouldn’t be here, Amazon wouldn’t be here, you wouldn’t have just sold that old teapot on eBay and Sony BGM would not have angered the geek [...]

After a long period of downtime my blog is finaly back online, this time running under different software. Unfortunately the old blog died when my webhost went bankrupt, but through the wonders of Google I have again be able to save the content. I’ll probably just chuck the best of it in a static archive [...]