Author: graybo

Beer last night in the company of Paul F, Julie (Mrs Aris), DA, Kearn, Paul C, Simon, Clive, Arron, Sarah and her new fella Andy. Paul S was also spotted, so a full compliment of Pauls.
Andy seems a nice bloke – obviously a bit hard to judge based on half an hour in the pub – he also seems remarkably tolerant of Sarah even when she has half a dozen Becks inside her.

The Secret Diary of Tony Blair. Very good. I guess we will see a William Hague equivalent soon, but I don’t think the Charles Kennedy version is ever likely to catch on.

beer on an empty stomach. bad plan. anyway, after college tonight, beer in the fine company of James W, Paul F, and Aris. A good evening.

go buy the May 3 issue of ComputerActive, for no other reason than the fact that this blog is featured. If I find time in the next week, I’ll scan it and post it.

total, utter, class.

bloody hell, it is totally manic here today. I’m rushing around like the proverbial decapitated avian. So please excuse the paucity of blogging. Maybe go take a look at some other blogs and see what they have to say.

Comments function now live, courtesy of BlogVoices. I did look at the possibility of using DotComments but decided not too, mainly because it would mean renaming my index file, and therefore changing umpteen links and possibly leaving a few people with broken links on their sites.

Music review (rare thing here, I know):
Zero7 – Simple Things.
Go buy. It’s brilliant.

Some of you will know that I have been considering changing over to Greymatter to power this site. But I’ve been thinking about it. Blogger has been behaving itself much more lately (famous last words), and seems to have a secure future. Whilst I can see numerous benefits to using Greymatter, I think that Blogger shows more prospect of continuous development and improvement in the future. That is not intended as a criticism of Noah Grey, because I think he has done great things in making the Greymatter software available. But I think Blogger finally looks like it has a sustainable business model in the making, and that lends a degree of security and the prospect of development.
So I intend to add a comments gizmo to Grayblog and stick to Blogger – at least for the timebeing.

Regular readers will know that I have a deep love for my city. There are some moments when Chichester is just fabulous, and just now was one of them. I’m not quite sure what it is – probably just a combination of a good mood and good surroundings. But I was just walking back from college, having eaten most of a pack of Waitrose caramel hearts (which I highly recommend – naff packaging, lovely chocs!) and I’d had a bit of a laugh with my college friends. So I was in a good mood. It was surprisingly warm, and calm, and the air had that gentle “spring softness” (god, I sound like an ad for fabric conditioner!), the city looked beautiful in a cool blue twilight, and the cathedral bells could be heard drifting across the city (Wednesday is practice night).
It really combined to put a big smile on my face and generally make me feel pretty damn good. I’m so lucky to live here.