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A 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, 2019First steps running a Cloud Task on Spring Cloud Data Flow
Everyone is talking cloud native. Spring might not be the newest kid on the block, but Spring Cloud Data Flow holds bags of promise. Here I give an introduction to Spring Cloud Data Flow and write my first Cloud Task.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018Cold weekend in Copenhagen
A winter weekend break to Copenhagen - home of the Little Mermaid and many fantastic restaurants.
Monday, February 29, 2016Ten days in Spain - Madrid & Seville
With ten days to enjoy Spain we eventually succeeded in buying a Renfe Spain pass and made our way to Madrid and Seville.
Saturday, October 31, 201560 hours in Edinburgh (festival time)
A 60 hour visit to Edinburgh, our old hunting ground during the August festival season.
Monday, September 7, 2015Recent Reviews
Good prep for a Disneyworld visit; especially interesting to read about Walt’s original vision for Epcot versus reality. Would be more engaging with more first hand accounts.
I found the acting ok and the plot somewhat recycled. But it’s Star Wars, so I still enjoyed it.
There’s so much to watch nowadays, but this was fresh and enjoyable. Maybe drawn out a little too long, but Cordelia Cupp was a great character and very well acted.
I am catching up on the Star Wars movies now. Rogue One looks beautiful and provides action aplenty. It’s simple, but effective. Really enjoyable.
Doesn’t grip in the same way as S1, but it still works thanks to strong central cast. Some of it feels a bit rushed and formulaic though.
So many memories of this as child and I am so pleased I got to watch it with my daughter. It has stood the test of time well and is simply put a very good movie.