We went to New York again for Kathryn’s birthday. We’d been once before and seen most of the tourist sites. For Kathryn, this meant we could dedicate the trip to shopping. Apart from spending money whenever we got the chance we also did some other cool things like visit the reopened Museum of Modern Art …
Change of address
No, we haven’t moved house but if you have visited the site recently you may have noticed you were redirected. From now on london.fornax.net will be known as frogcake.net so don’t forget to update those bookmarks. 🙂 Also, I have added an RSS feed to the site so you can be sure you’ll never miss …
End of an era
The No 19 Routemasters won’t be growling past our windows much longer. According to the London Bus Page, the last Routemaster will pull into the Battersea Garage on 1 April 2005. This is just one more in a growing list of routes that have been phasing out their Routemasters over the last year. By the …
Another new job
I’ve got a new job. Starting 21 Februrary I will be IT Manager / Web Developer for Unanimis Consulting Ltd. I’m really excited about it and I can’t wait to start. It is a combination of sysadmin stuff and web development and the office is on Tottenham Court Rd – five minutes from Uni. Andrew …
Back to school
I am starting an MSc in Computer Science on Monday at Birkbeck College, University of London. This may surprise some of you, but ever since Dad brought home a state of the art 286 (12Mhz, 20MB HDD, twin 5.25” floppies, four-colour CGA screen and one of those really solid keyboards that click when you press …
F1 London
It is the British Grand Prix this weekend at Silverstone. There are plans to bring a Monaco style GP to London and to promote this idea there was a parade of F1 cars down Regent street on Tuesday night. Working nearby and finishing at 4:15, I thought it might be cool to wander down after …
New York
It was snowing when we left London and it was snowing when we arrived at JFK airport seven hours later. We thought the terminal was rather small for New York, until we realised the whole terminal was just for British Airways. Not much later we were met by Wendy and Greg. There was a brief …
Egypt Part V
On our guide’s advice, we rose early and left for the west bank of the Nile at 6am. We were the first to arrive at the Valley of the Kings, which pleased Magic greatly. We caught a little train thing “like Disney Land” from the empty car park to the place where the men with …
Egypt Part IV
The view from our room at the Luxor Sheraton was stunning. We were on the east bank and from our balcony I could see a number of hot air balloons suspended over the opposite bank. As I stood and watched, the rising sun gradually brought colour to the steep hills surrounding the Valley of the …
Egypt Part III
We had booked a driver to take us to the Pyramids the previous day and we met Salah on the steps of our hotel early Tuesday morning. As we were driving along the eastern bank of the Nile he began fishing around behind the sun visor. This was slightly disconcerting but by now I had …