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Okay, so by now none of you care about my new Heckler, but I a going to tell you stuff about it anyway 😛 I received a call from Ed at John’s Bikes just before lunch to say he’d faced the headtube and fitted the headset (he’d made a blanker for the internal ream on…

So what else is there to do at 8am on a Saturday morning when you really want to be asleep but are wide awake? Well, by a car stereo that what! See, see, I am quite normal 😉 Its been weeks since some bastard stole the stereo out of my car and whilst on the…

Hmm,Cane Creek claim that their S2 headset has a stack height of 26mm. This, added to the 146mm headstock length on my Heckler should provide a 172mm total height at the front end, allowing me to fit a Maverick DUC32, but no. When you actually get the vernier calipers out the stack height on the…

and I got into the office for 5.30am so we could upgrade Open World’s PostgreSQL databases in the main web cluster. Quite impressively it all went smoothly and worked first time. We rock 🙂 I am, however, feeling really rough and just want to go back to bed. Sadly I can’t ‘cos I have a…

So, I buy a shite house somewhere foreign and hire a dodgy bulder to screw me over… then I call Channel 4 and have Amanda Lamb come visit. Plan!

So, 3 months ago I ordered it and yesterday she arrived. More to follow once I stop bouncing around like a kid in a sweet shop 😀 Edit: Better picture – 2004.09.16.18.52BST

The Chorister in The Old Green Tree is particularly fine after work, especially in the company of . Remarkable cool and quiet in the back, plus a very attractive barmaid who I’d not seen before. Must drink more often in the Green Tree 😉

Messages you don’t want to receive on your answer phone at 11.45pm after you get back from the pub… “Hello, Mr Mackinlay. This is X from Bath police station. We have had a report form a local resident that your car has been broken into. I don’t know if you are on holiday or whatever,…

I would not have thought that I’d enjoy clay pigeon shooting, but I surprised myself by thoroughly enjoying it. I wasn’t great at it, but I got 16 out of 20 on four 5-shot stands, which isn’t bad. I can’t see me taking it up though, I couldn’t say why but it just doesn’t strike…