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• Category: Design
  • What the hell Jaguar? Let’s take a look at the Type 00
  • Hertz doubled the cost of my car rental. Here’s their process design trick.
  • Don’t design in customer traps on your systems
  • A new manifesto for the web
  • Design Dilemmas: When bathrooms become battlegrounds
  • Category: Architecture
    • Taller buildings let us design better towns
• Category: Finance
  • The great pension scam, how people were conned, and how young people fixed it
  • Wealth, income, and why that bloke on Question Time with £80k was wrong (and right)
• Category: Friends and Family
  • 2024 – A recovery year of experiences to make 2025 a banger
  • Recovering from a heart bypass. The physical and mental challenges.
  • I broke my heart in five places and got it fixed
  • In Love With My Kids
  • Why Planning Meals With Young Kids is Hard
  • Baby 2!
  • Yummy Yummy!
  • Doug’s Stag Weekend
  • Me? Reading?
  • Sean’s 40th Birthday Party
  • Category: Dad
    • Staleys in the Isle of Man
    • Finding a missing person in South America (and elsewhere)
    • Dad´s Headstone
    • Quiet Weekend in Arica
    • Food!
    • The Story of Juanito
    • Arrangements, part dos
    • The Funeral
    • Arica – Day 1 – Arrangements
    • Arica – Day 1
    • Chris Coveney…the Introduction
    • Christopher Coveney
• Category: Immigration
  • A review of Nitin Sawhney’s Heart Suite
• Category: Leaving Poverty
  • Steps and missteps on my path out of poverty
• Category: Motoring
  • Are VW in trouble with their electric car strategy?
• Category: Motorsport
  • What a difference a tyre makes – mini review of Yokohama Advan Neovas on track
  • Oulton Park Trackday With GTDC
  • Photos From the Aintree Spring Sprint 2008
  • Aintree Spring Sprint 2008
  • Look Before Crossing
  • Stop Whinging and Learn to Drive
  • Hillclimb and Sprint Photography
  • When Your Mic Breaks, Improvise!
  • Caterham at Oulton
  • Vroom-Vroom
  • God Save The Queen! (Petrol Sniffer Style)
  • When Track Safety Goes Wrong
  • Ouch – garage door dangers
  • Aintree Circuit Trackday Video, May 2005
  • Loton Park Hillclimb Video, July 2005
  • Aintree Sprint Video, September 2005
  • Donington Park Trackday Video, November 2005
  • Gordon Holmes Demonstrating What Autotesting is All About
  • Spinning a BMW Z3 M Coupé at Rockingham
  • How I started in motorsport
  • Aintree, 22nd April 2006
  • Pre Aintree Jitters
  • Category: Event Reports and Previews
    • Aintree Sprint Report, 8th September 2007
    • Aintree Sprint, 30th June 2007 – Rain again
    • Anglesey Sprint, 9th-10th of June 2007
    • Thoresby Park Sprint, 23rd September 2006
    • Aintree Sprint, 2nd September 2006 – Boat racing!
    • Scammonden Dam Hillclimb – 20th August 2006
    • Loton Park, 29th July 2006
    • Loton Park Preparation
    • Aintree, 24th June 2006 – Pushing harder and harder… yet…
    • Of broken toelinks (Anglesey May and June 2006)
  • Category: How to
    • What Happens at Your First Sprint or Hillclimb
    • Sprint and Hillclimb Checklist
    • Competing in Your First Sprint or Hillclimb
    • How to Get Started in Motorsport
  • Category: Videos
• Category: Music
• Category: Personal Growth
  • Back to basics
• Category: Politics
  • The EU are bullying the UK
  • Why political parties lose support by winning.
  • Our office cleaner doesn’t vote. I think I know why.
• Category: Stuff I'm Selling
  • Bell & Coggins Pattern 1321
  • Bye Bye Skoda
  • Wardrobe For Sale
• Category: Technical
  • Will there be a successful WordPress fork?
  • AI is predictive, not intelligent
  • Twitter is about to die. Here’s why.
  • Getting Quicker
  • Live Threaded Commenting on WP
  • WordPress Performance, Make it 3x Quicker!
  • What it’s Like to Present and Attend at WordCamp UK
  • mySQL Database Search & Replace With Serialized PHP [Updated]
  • Slow Posting Performance in WordPress 2.7
  • Handy Tip for CSS Reloading
  • Broadcom B57nd60x 10.10.0.0 performance problems (Dell XPS especially)
  • PHP Serialization Fix for WordPress Migrations (& other applications like Expression Engine)
  • Wordcamp UK 2009 to be in Cardiff
  • Pros & Cons of Software as a Service
  • iPhone Blogging and WordPress
  • Very Cool Camera Tracking Technology
  • 21 Years In IT
  • Geek Joy!
  • Reducing Nokia N95 GPRS Map Charges
  • Migration Successful! Well…almost…
  • Resolving WordPress Migration Issue
  • Shiny new things!
  • Category: IT
    • The astonishing power of modern computing
    • The productivity paradox
    • Off-Cloud Backup for Heroku apps – a possible answer
    • Interesting times in the world of software
    • Blog “Reboot”
    • Is WordPress Slowing My Site Down?
    • Five Things Bing Does Better than Google
  • Category: WordPress
    • WordCamp UK – Great Stuff + a Little Controversy
    • Of WordPress Training and Learning
• Category: Travel
  • Maps of the World
  • Travel with Jeremy Hardy
  • It’s happening!
  • Jabs, bookings and planning for Peru
  • Category: Asia
    • Hong Kong
  • Category: Caribbean
    • Cuban bathrooms
    • Transport in Cuba
    • First Impressions in Cuba
  • Category: Europe
    • Southport, New Year’s Day 2010
    • Iceland In Winter
    • Krakow – June 2009
    • Crazy European Sports To Try This Summer
    • Nice
    • Butterflies in Liverpool
    • Liverpool Airport (Speke)
    • Rocking in Paris
    • Anthony Gormley’s Another Place
    • Italy – Lucky in Lucca, and more….
  • Category: Mexico
    • Palenque, Mayan Ruins
    • San Cristobal de las Casas to Pelenque
    • Planes, Trains and Taxis to Mexico
  • Category: North America
    • I Like It Low
    • Oh God
    • Nowt like a failed stereotype to make you think – New York
  • Category: South America
    • Peru, Chile & Bolivia Gallery
    • Dogs of San Pedro
    • A Better Type of Criminal
    • Border Crossings and Empty Airports
    • Extreme Landscapes
    • Laguna Colorada, Bolivia
    • San Pedro de Atacama revisited.
    • F%@*!?g Hell
    • Off to San Pedro
    • Un Techo Para Chile
    • Pictures of Arica
    • Itinerary Options
    • Differential Pricing with Airlines
    • Lima, again.
    • Cuzco by Night
    • Santa Catalina Convent, Arequipa
    • Road to Bolivia
    • Valle de la Luna
    • That Botfly Story You’ve Heard From Me 10 Times Already
    • More on my parasite story
    • Ouchy Wouchy!
    • Currency exchange when travelling
    • Ouch…
    • La Cucaracha!
    • The Motocarro (tuk-tuk)
    • In the Amazon Jungle
    • Sanhattan! Capital of Chile
    • Worms!
    • Another high altitude desert – San Pedro de Atacama
    • Sick boy – Arica, Lluta Valley, Lauca National Park
    • Tacna-Arica
    • The other half – Partying in Peru
    • Donkeys and Condors
    • Gin Tonic in Lima Central
    • Peruvian Food
    • Machu Picchu
    • Safety when travelling
    • On top of t’world!
    • Sand surfing in Huacachina
    • The road to Paracas
    • Del Carajo
    • Wedding!
    • Lima
    • Hotel Lost
    • The night before
    • Air Stewardesses
    • More preparation
    • Jabs
    • Ouch
• Category: Uncategorized
  • A little change on this website
  • Why learning to lose is the path to winning
  • Bono’s office, some time in 2014
  • Liverpool Central Library
  • What It’s Like to Dine Out When You’re Veggie
  • It’s OK, Coming Second Isn’t So Bad
  • Why Gay Marriage Matters
  • Why You Should Be A Secularist
  • Do You Need an SLR?
  • The Liverpool Riots Do Not Indicate That Our Society Is Broken
  • Thinking Digital University (2011)
  • Homage to Beatrice Warde or a bad idea?
  • Freedom of Information is Abused
  • New Spectacu.la Discussion Updates
  • Headshots
  • Gateshead/Newcastle Pics from Thinking Digital (part 1)
  • Collateral Murder in Baghdad
  • Rainy Days in Liverpool
  • Liverpool Skyline
  • Argh! Spiders!
  • Old Reel to Reel Tapes
  • Photoblog is No More!
  • Saab 9-5 Aero (HOT) Estate For Sale – SOLD!
  • 1999 ZZR600 (ZX600-E7) For Sale
  • Boo to MPs! Boo to Presenters!
  • Just Go Back a Bit
  • Tim Ferriss and why I don’t like his emotional blackmail
  • Cerrie Burnell – and unthinking parents
  • Wordcamp UK 2009 to Liverpool?
  • Microsoft OneNote
  • 10 Things That Will Make No Difference Whatsoever To Your Blog’s Success
  • New Year’s Resolutions for Greater Productivity
  • Health & Safety – They’re Rational, Could You Be Too?
  • Barriers that Punish
  • Using Hysteria and Useful Idiots to Drive Law-making
  • Speed Limiting in Cars
  • About the Campaign for Thinking
  • Data Visualisation – and Me
  • Barcamp Liverpool 2008
  • Spectacu.la, the New Design, and Why I’ve Been So Quiet…
  • Hang on a sec…
  • CIA?
  • Rise of the Bland Statement
  • He Used to Look So Babyfaced
  • Earthquake in Liverpool
  • Bless him…
  • Really Sorry
  • So now I’m on Facebook I Want a Blog Connection…
  • Liverpool Web Designer
  • Are Muslims the New Jews?
  • Web Design in Liverpool
  • Interconnect IT
  • Halton Bathrooms
  • Badminton Near Warrington
  • What Birds Are Saying
  • Anatomy of a Traffic Jam
  • Being a b3tard…
  • New things and more
  • Bye bye to the Heart & Soul, Liverpool
  • Hello 2007, Goodbye 2006
  • Merry Christmas
  • Comments Change
  • Showing how easy it is to do what Autotrader do…
  • Welcome to the Home Page of Obsessive Compulsives UK
  • Site Issues
  • Up and coming events
  • Hello
• Category: Video of the Week
  • Pure. Comedy. Gold. Jozin z Bazin
  • Vegetarians Are Plain Filthy
  • Now That’s Clever… The Riddle on an Oscilloscope
  • Videos are back!
  • Wheels are Dangerous
  • Balloon Racing – Beautiful
  • Car Games
  • Outcycling a Police Car!
  • Push me-Pull you
  • Breaking the Sound Barrier
  • A Thousand Incidents – Those Crazy Rally Drivers!
  • Motorsport Video of the Week #3
  • Motorsport Video of the Week #2
  • Motorsport Video of the Week #1