2011 Newsletter
We’ve got our 2011 Newsletter online. Our printer is broken at the moment, so we won’t be sending copies with Christmas cards this year.
Author Archives: Andrew
Food Miles
I enjoy eating oatcakes with cheese. While we were on Mull, we stayed at a dairy farm which makes some very nice cheddar, so I got some oatcakes from the shop in Tobermory. The cheese, then, had stayed within the … Continue reading
New Toys
My Mum and Nana got me a shiny toy for my birthday — a Canon EOS 400D. New only to me, but I’m enjoying it a lot :). Best of all, the kit lens that came with it isn’t too … Continue reading
This year’s pictures
We’ve finally managed to upload some pictures for this year :). I’ve also discovered a few on our laptop that haven’t made it up yet, so I’m hoping to back-fill soon. Find them at http://www.aylett.co.uk/2011/.
Quote of the day: Rosie
Rosie saw me playing a logic puzzle on the computer: Are you playing that game? I like that game! Why does it have numbers?
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Testing Vid.ly (Kirsty and Ewan sledging)
The Mozilla hacks blog had an article on Vid.ly, a new video encoding service from encoding.com. I thought I’d try it out. This is a video that Lizzie took of Kirsty and Ewan sledging, from the first snowfall of winter, … Continue reading
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Migrating contacts from S40 to Android
Lizzie and I recently got ourselves an HTC Desire each, to replace my Nokia E71 and her Nokia 6700 Classic. It wasn’t hard to get my contacts out of my phone — S60 supports SyncML, so does Google, and they … Continue reading
2010 Newsletter
As usual, we’ve written a newsletter to send with our Christmas cards. We also publish our newsletters online – you can find all of our newsletters on our main website, or go straight to our 2010 newsletter.
A practical investigation into the cohesive and aerodynamic properties of crystalline dihydrogen monoxide
We were due to have a brown-bag session about Visual Studio today, but unfortunately the guy who was supposed to be running it had to work from home due to the snow. As an alternative, we undertook a practical investigation … Continue reading
Quote of the day
Kirsty: “Tomorrow, can we make aeroplane wings to put on our arms so we can fly?” I tried to explain that she wasn’t the first person to have that idea and that it didn’t generally work, but I’m not sure … Continue reading
