Archive for February, 2003

Pebbledash visions

Posted on February 28, 2003 ~ Filed Under Diary

[This is by Sarah, not Jemima, in case you think she's gone mad]
When I think of pebbledashed walls, and how they are made, I envisage a machine of the sort that fires tennis balls over the net so people can practice their strokes. I imagine people spreading soft concrete on the side of a house [...]

Sick ickle Jemima

Posted on February 10, 2003 ~ Filed Under Diary

Urg. I’ve just spent the day at home, mostly all of it asleep, ill. Poor, ickle me. Around dozing and the Archers I did a bit of work on the new PSI website. I’ve been trying out some new software for bug tracking called Mantis. It’s built using PHP and MySQL and is still quite [...]

Politics: Alive or Dead?

Posted on February 3, 2003 ~ Filed Under Culture

On Saturday, Paula and I went to the Fabian Society’s New Year Conference. The subject was Politics: Alive or Dead and was attended by about 700 people. The day was split into four main events: the keynote speech, morning ‘mini-conferences’, afternoon ‘workshops’ and a final ‘question time’ session. The keynote speech was from Robin Cook [...]