Archive for April, 2007

Alcohol becoming socially unacceptable?

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Following a news article on BBC web site about a charity lobbying to prevent children drinking at home, I actually got one of my comments published on Page 35 of the Have Your Say section.

My comment is that I am worried that now the moral brigade have been succesful making smoking in public places socially unacceptable that alcohol will be their next target.

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Oxford Brewing Group - Taste and Swap day

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

The Oxford Brewing group is holding a Taste & Swap day at Kennington Village Hall on 2nd June 2007. An invitation is open to any craft brewers who can make it to Oxford that day.

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So simple a child can program it

Friday, April 20th, 2007

There was a discussion panel session entitled So simple a child can program it, on a mobile phone at ACCU 2007. We had a similar side discussion at a meeting of the Oxtremists and there was an article at O’Reilly called Where’s the 8 bit revolution for my kids?

This is a few notes about what I remember from the ACCU session.

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Thought it was time to get a blog

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Everybody else seems to have one, so now do I….

This will cover several subjects:

My previous personal web site is at www.greenius.ltd.uk/personal/steven/, which contains more information about my hobbies and things… but I never kept it up to date. You can probably find older more embarrassing versions of my site on the wayward engine