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One last trip to the internet in 2009 with The Rough Guide 14
One more dive into history with the 2009 edition of The Rough Guide to the Internet. I explore how much - and how little - the web has changed since the era of MySpace, the iPhone 3G, iGoogle, and the rise of broadband.
Sunday, April 19, 2026Summer in London, Troon & Edinburgh
Trip report from our trip to the UK taking in London, Derbyshire, Troon and Edinburgh including golf, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and many restaurants.
Monday, August 25, 2025Food and Drink Disney World Experience
Food and drink reviews from our 8 night stay at Walt Disney World, Orlando in 2025 including table service restaurants, buffets, and quick service options.
Friday, August 1, 2025The magic of Disney World and Animal Kingdom Lodge
Trip report of our visit to Orlando for a stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge (Jambo House) and visits to every Disney World park: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot and Hollywood Studios.
Monday, June 2, 2025A week's holiday to the Isle of Arran
The Isle of Arran is the Scottish island I have visited most often. This time we stayed in Whiting Bay. I enjoyed a hike up Arran’s highest point - Goatfell, lots of good food and even took an Alpaca for a walk.
Saturday, June 29, 2024Automating the publication of my Out of Ten reviews using Zapier and Notion
Using Zapier’s free plan I attempt to automatically trigger the Github action workflow which publishes this website, whenever I add a new Out of Ten review to my Notion database.
Saturday, March 2, 2024Back to Edinburgh for a mini zookeeper experience
My second trip report to Edinburgh - this time it was for the mini zookeeper experience at Edinburgh Zoo, a visit to Edinburgh Castle and the adjacent Camera Obscura. Edinburgh really loses none of its appeal over time and is a must visit.
Monday, November 13, 2023A week in Balamory / Tobermory (Isle of Mull)
Tobermory was the filming location for the Balamory children’s TV show. We visited for one week to find the Balamory houses, enjoy some great food and take in all of the wonderful nature and wildlife on Scotland’s Isle of Mull.
Sunday, September 10, 2023Three nights as a tourist in London
Three night trip review of London - including afternoon tea at Claridges, Buckingham palace summer opening, Chinatown dumplings and a great boat trip down the Thames with the Thames Clipper / Uber boat.
Saturday, August 26, 2023A trip to the internet in 1996 with The Rough Guide 2.0
Prepare to be transported back in time as I delve into one of my all-time favorite books from my teenage years: The Rough Guide 2.0: The Internet & World Wide Web.
Saturday, June 10, 2023Relaunching my personal website as planetjones.net
An overview of how I migrated planetjones.co.uk to planetjones.net including a custom Hugo theme using Bootstrap, rendering my out of ten reviews from Notion and publishing automatically using Github Actions.
Wednesday, May 3, 2023Google Cloud Run with Micronaut and GraalVM
App Engine. Google Cloud Functions. And now the pinnacle: Google Cloud Run. Here I build a container running (thanks to GraalVM) a natively compiled Micronaut framework application on Google’s latest serverless for containers offering called Cloud Run.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019Recent Reviews
Feels like a proper Star Wars story. And a great telling of Imperial over-reach and how the resistance starts to form. This is the first Star Wars TV show I have watched and it’s really good.
Steve Coogan holds this together and the story of how customs officers went undercover is riveting. But it’s clear the story that this tells never happened, which loses it points.
It holds up ok. Not quite at the level of the original Indiana Jones films, but it‘s watchable.
Latest Food
There are some interesting ice cream flavours available at L’Artisan Glacier, Zurich - mine was walnut and maple syrup. I just really dislike the machine asking for a tip, when it’s counter service.
June 6, 2026
Latest Microblog
Today Switzerland votes on the 10 Million Switzerland Initiative. The letterbox has been full of leaflets for and against it. In brief the population of Switzerland is currently 9.1 million. If the initiative succeeds the population cannot exceed 10 million by 2050 and if it gets to 9.5 million before, some drastic action must be taken; which would trigger a Swiss Brexit of sorts.
This is a popular initiative - triggered by collecting 100,000 signatures. And if the vote succeeds Switzerland will have to implement it.
We should find out the result later today. It looks very close.