Our precious little Isobel was born at 2:22am on 26th July. She was a healthy 10lb 6oz (Becky delivered her naturally and without any form of pain medication).
The last three weeks have been a bit of a blur! Izzy has been well behaved though and she sleeps quite well at night. Becky has recovered well and her and Izzy are getting in to a feeding routine. Neither of us are looking forward to me going back to work again tomorrow though. read more
Anyone interested in the current dire state of the UK’s economy, exactly how it came about and some interesting observations on our government’s mishandling and our media’s misreporting of it will find the following 3-page article very interesting indeed. I would definitely recommend it to those who are not economists.
“Jimmy Doherty’s GM Food Fight” was shown on BBC 2 at 9pm on 25th November, 2008. It motivated (annoyed) me in to writing this post.
I found the programme to be quite biased. In many ways and on many levels… read more
This evening, I went to install Enigmail on my 64-bit Ubuntu machine. Enigmail is an excellent Thunderbird extension which integrates GnuPG. I was rather shocked though to discover that the Enigmail team don’t offer a 64-bit Linux download for their latest version either on their own site, or at AMO.
What they do offer for 64-bit users (of Linux, or Windows for that matter) is a source code tar-ball and a some build instructions. The build instructions require you to first build part of Thunderbird before tackling Enigmail. Seems like a lot of effort to expect your average Joe-user to spend.
I spent that effort anyway, and here is what I did: read more