I walked up to J Avenue for a late lunch today, and took my new camera (Sony DSC-W230) with me. Home via the scenic route…
Lunch – steak & swiss cheese sandwich, with cha yen. Glorious.
Continue reading ‘A photoblog – because, well, why not?’
A week in Southport would once have seemed the dullest of destinations.
But having now lived in a variety of elsewheres for about seven and a half years, I think I’ve spent long enough away to appreciate what can be a surprisingly pleasant town.
Perhaps absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I’ve no doubt that I’d be bored silly if I were to spend years, or even months actually living there again, but yet a week was not quite enough.
I hadn’t been back to England for almost two years, and quite aside from family and friends there was so much more that I’d missed without even realising it.
Continue reading ‘Dear Old Blighty’
I am useless at this, aren’t I?
One thing I have learned is that there’s nothing worse than announcing a hiatus in terms of guaranteeing a total loss of audience, as well as any faint hopes of making time to write – a friend recently wrote in an email that he’d “stumbled across your blog (which I must confess to thinking dead)”. Whoops.
Continue reading ‘Busy busy’
A day trip to Samut Songhram (Thai: สมุทรสงคราม) began with a shrieking alarm clock at 7am. Then another at 7.30am. It was, it appeared, time to get up. Not my favourite activity, and certainly not my favourite time at which to perform it. Continue reading ‘Samut Songkhram’
configure: error: Autoconf 2.61a-341 or better is required
Hmm…
$ port info autoconf
autoconf @2.63 (devel)
Variants: universal
Grr…
$ sudo port upgrade autoconf
$
Argh.
