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60 hours in Edinburgh (festival time)
A 60 hour visit to Edinburgh, our old hunting ground during the August festival season.
Monday, September 7, 201572 hours in London
A visit to London was long overdue - so we headed for 72 hours of sightseeing, tourist attractions and to stuff our faces full of food!
Saturday, November 22, 2014Internationalization on the Web - an often inconsistent and frustrating experience
Many websites / internet services are now offering their content in local languages - but the way this internationalization is implemented can cause frustration and annoyance to those whose only language is English.
Sunday, April 27, 2014Google App Engine Endpoints (REST services), with Java, Maven & Intellij (Part 1)
Google’s App Engine now provides Endpoints, which offer a simple way to create RESTful services for clients. Here a simple Endpoint is created using the Java API, Maven and Intellij.
Sunday, May 19, 2013Taking the WebSphere Liberty Profile for a spin, using Intellij on the iMac
The WebSphere Liberty Profile is built for developers - here I take the beta of the Next profile for a spin - using Intellij on the iMac, a new set-up for me.
Sunday, March 24, 2013New York City Food and Drink write up
Reviews of the food and drink venues we enjoyed in Manhattan, New York City during our November 2012 trip to the Big Apple.
Saturday, November 17, 2012Disneyland Paris trip report and review
Brief write-up of our day trip to see Disneyland Paris - unfortunately minus Mickey Mouse and any of the other characters.
Monday, July 16, 2012Paris food & drink experience
Write up of our food and drink experience in Paris, from our May 2012 visit.
Sunday, June 10, 2012Hungary: Budapest & Heviz Trip Report
A 10 day trip to Hungary’s capital Budapest and a 3 night trip to Heviz, a town near Lake Balaton which is home to Europe’s largest outdoor thermal lake.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009Isle of Skye
A week long trip in May 2008 trip to Scotland’s Isle of Skye, where we were fortunate enough to get great weather!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009Recent Reviews
I can see why Netflix cancelled it. There are some good scenes and characters but it feels too stretched out. And the swimming to safety scene near the end feels like the scriptwriters had already thrown in the towel.
It’s kind of ok. Although it feels like it is missing something which means it is never great. Maybe it is just a bit too jumbled between being serious and humourous.
A return to form. The humour is back in abundance; it borrows from the Terminator in places and is a fun and fast ride.
Good prep for Disneyworld. It’s not going to win any awards, but it’s a solid movie which is well made. It raised some laughs too.
A very welcome return to form. S7 has a great mix of episodes; I think Eulogy is the best, but there is nothing bad to be found.
It got better towards the end, but I found the pacing of this problematic and for large parts of the movie what was happening on screen and didn’t fit what I would consider a good Star Wars movie.