iamcal.com Since May 2000

Sep 23rd: I'm in the process of setting up a new laptop and need to wait for the giant Dropbox sync. Getting Windows 10 to stop sleeping when locked required two different registry hacks. In 2018 :(

Sep 4th: For some unfathomable reason, Bedfordshire (the area in which I grew up) grows some of the hottest chilli peppers in the world, all created by Salvatore Genovese.

Aug 6th: I've updated my 2018 reading list to include my June and July picks.

Jul 5th: If you have a SnapScan S1300 (very excellent document scanner) and can't get it to work under Windows 10, try following these instructions

May 23rd: MousePoint is a fun little progressive clicker game that subverts the actual clicking aspect. It's a pretty short play (about 6 minutes), but a lovely example of the genre.

Apr 16th: Ideally MySQL include this in a future version of mysqldump, but here's a neat little utility to split extended inserts into one row per line. This allows you to use extended inserts (for much faster importing of large tables) while having the ability to grep and diff rows easily.