Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.

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…

Like the lemming I am I’ve installed Apple’s latest and greatest. The difference is, umm…. what difference. The Mail client appears better, but then I’ve not used it much before. Well see how we go.

I’m off up to Scotland again. Back for Fort William, though this time I get to race down the Nevis Ranges course 🙂 National Championships, so should be a laugh. I am just aiming not to come last. Hanging about for next week in Scotland, don’t really know what the plan is yet, though I’m…

So, what is it that makes so many Starbucks employees hear “Grande quad shot mocha please.”, as “Grande white chocolate mocha please.”? This happens all the bloomin’ time 🙁 I have also discovered that working at home is not possible for me. I attempted it this morning and I got nothing done in particular. My…