Dropbox Beta invitations
Posted 2 days ago. (Filed under: Geek by Andrew)
Dropbox is a fantastic new service for sharing files, backing up files and syncing files between computers. It stands out from the crowd because unlike so many other systems, it’s so jolly easy to use.
I’ve got 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 invitations for the beta. Sorry – I’ve run out of invitations for now. If I get any more, I’ll post an invitation here.
CSS by Meyer
Posted 7 days ago. (Filed under: by Andrew)
Just a quick, and probably non-permanent, note to say I’ve just realised that a good proportion of the style on my website has been stolen from Eric Meyer. I decided to use his style resetting style-sheet, and also pasted in a bunch of his code to help me see how it all worked. My intention was to adapt it and replace it with my own unique style (or lack thereof). I must have got distracted half-way through, ‘cause there’s rather a lot of, um, “non-original content” there. So I’m hoping that attribution is a half-way house between theft and copyright. The good bits are his; the bad bits are more than likely mine. When I get a moment in between work, nappy-changing and loafing, I’ll finish ripping out the stuff I’m not entitled to. Sorry Eric.
Final stage of moving email servers
Posted 11 days ago. (Filed under: Support by Andrew)
I’ve completed the final stage in moving email on kember.net to Google Apps. That is, I’ve moved the mx records and set up an spf record.
If you have an email address @kember.net, and have any trouble receiving or sending email, please phone me.
If you have trouble sending email to somebody with a kember.net email address, please phone me, or phone the person you’re sending the message to. If you don’t have any contact information apart from the email address, please try again later, or use the contact form on this website – I’ll be fixing any problems I find as a matter of urgency.
Eat no snacks
Posted 61 days ago. (Filed under: Life by Andrew)
I shall eat no snacks for a week.
Start weight: 11 stone 12 lbs. Goal: 11 stone 3 lbs.
Current weight: 11 stone 8 lbs
[Update 30th June: Looks like it’s not going to happen without exercise and stuff. Time to get back on that stepper.]
For the last year or so, my weight has hovered around the 11 stone 6lbs mark. In the week after Miranda was born, it dipped to 11 stone 1lbs due, in part, to running up and down the stairs non-stop for 168 hours (well, it felt like that).
Well, now I’ve stopped the stair-running, I’m 11 stone 12lbs. It’s not the absolute number that I’m worried about – the government BMI calculator says I’m fine, and my maximum healthy weight would be about 13 stones (which is too high, but lets face it, they don’t know I’ve got the muscle tone of a jellyfish). What concerns me is that I’m getting heavier by about two pounds per week. That can’t go on.
On the back of an envelope, I’ve calculated that I eat between 300 and 1000 calories (i.e. kcals) of snacks per work-day, averaging at about 500. The snacks are a mixture of cereal bars, chocolate biscuit bars, chocolate-covered raisins and licorice. I haven’t included fruit in my calculations, as I intend to continue eating the same amount – just at meal-times rather than in between.
So do keep an eye on me – lets see if the de-snacking makes a difference.
Unfashionable redesign
Posted 63 days ago. (Filed under: Geek by Andrew)
According to Dean, nobody wants to know that I’m re-styling the site. When it looks like you’ve broken the Internet, don’t worry – it’s my fault.
