Long-Covid Recovery Routine

Disclaimer: The medical and health information is provided in this post is for general informational and to document my experience only. It is not a substitute for professional advice. Accordingly, before taking any actions based upon such information, we encourage you to consult with the appropriate professionals. I do not provide any kind of medical or health advice. Since it became clear that I could not recover from Long-Covid on my own, I have been working with two Osteopaths to help support my recovery....

May 12, 2022 · 2 min

The fifteen-minute Blog with Netlify and Jekyll on Windows

Disclosure: This page contains Amazon Affiliate links; as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Further information can be found in my disclaimer and privacy policy. Blogging has become a way of life for many, developers use blogs to record their learnings, journalists to cover news stories in a free form and personal style. However, my personal bug-bear with blogging has always been maintaining a hosting platform which is typically is cumbersome and awkward....

March 11, 2016 · 5 min

2010 Blogging Year In Review

I try to do this post every year as it gives me an idea of where my readers come from and what they are looking at. My blog is consistently getting 100+ unique visitors per day, most of these are new visitors who have found a blog post via organic search results (Google, Yahoo!, etc), with a smaller number having found me through links from other sites or directly into the site....

December 31, 2010 · 3 min

Long time no blog...

I had been intending to post up all sorts of bits of news about life, driving, programming and cats but it didn’t happen. I have been busy which is good, however it doesn’t leave very much room for blogging. This post is going to be one really quick catch up entry to try and get me back into the swing of it. I finally passed my driving test at the beginning of the summer, it was my fourth try and I passed with three minors which was a great feeling… since then I have driven once, as part of PassPlus, which didn’t really feel vastly different, although it was more enjoyable knowing that I didn’t have a test coming up....

October 10, 2009 · 2 min

New Webhost

I have transfered to a new web-host, if you are seeing this message it has worked. That is all I have to say about it.

May 3, 2009 · 1 min

Driving Lesson #37

I am getting slack updating the blog, I had my first lesson after my driving test yesterday, in an odd kind of way I actually felt more confident. I know I failed the test however having someone else in the car and not having it all go totally wrong gave me some confidence. The lesson yesterday basically involved driving round finding places to do manoeuves, I make a point of saying “finding” as it was strangely difficult – at one point a van driver decided to park on the corner I was in the process of reversing round, amusingly enough he even nodded and smiled at us....

March 6, 2009 · 1 min

Driving Lesson #27

Today was a new skill, parking in a shopping center car park. Or at least an adaption of existing skills. Get yourself parallel to the line kerb equivalent, roughly a doors width from the bounding line of the parking space. Reverse until the near side bounding line of the parking space is about half way through rear window. Once at this position steer full lock to the left. Keep reversing, making corrections by straightening up then moving back to full lock....

January 12, 2009 · 1 min

Happy New Year

This is just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I have been wanting to post some statistics gathered through Google Analytics for some time now so here we go. The following data covers 1st January 2008 until the post time 31st December 2008, all data excludes administrator visits and search engine crawlers. Visit Statistics Visits: 3,066 Visitors: 2,708 Page Views: 4,935 Bounce Rate: 74.72% Top Visit Origins...

December 31, 2008 · 1 min

Learn a Little More About Richard Slater

Graeme Arthur tagged me, normally I hate these things but this is kind of a reverse chain letter… sort of… maybe if i re-write the rules slightly. Rules Link to the original tagger(s), and list these rules on my blog. Share 7 facts about myself in the post - some random, some weird. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs....

December 13, 2008 · 2 min

Twitter by SMS is no more

In Europe at least, Twitter was unable to come to an agreement with mobile phone operators to continue to send incoming Tweets to mobile phones via SMS, at least one person thinks that SMS is a deceptively profitable service for the network operators. Surely services that use SMS are going to generate more revenue as people pass funny Tweets onto non-Twitter users. After all, all of those jokes that zip round like wildfire whenever something happens in the news aren’t just the creative juices of the masses expressed in a short message, they are written by the networks to encourage people to send more messages (by passing the jokes on)....

August 18, 2008 · 1 min