Sarah and I are just back from a week’s snowboarding in 3 Valleys. We had a blast. Here’s what happened, with some tips for anyone thinking of doing the same. Pics are also online. Getting to Meribel Mottaret on the Eurostar snowtrain We took the Eurostar snowtrain from Waterloo on Friday night, arriving at Moutier [...]
One of the most annoying things about boarding is how all the pistes are graded for skiers. Sometimes a blue is a perfect, easy, snowboarding run – wide, gentle, a little bumpy. Sometimes a blue is the snowboarder’s worst nightmare – narrow, flat, uphill… So, here’s our guide to the runs that worked for us [...]
The BBC reports today that the British Standards Institution has produced a report about website accessibility, giving lots of helpful information to ensure websites are accessible to disabled users. Thinking that sounded very interesting, I dashed over to the BSi website, RNIB website, and the Disability Rights Commission website, all of which were linked from [...]
Doctor: Are you using any family planning methods? Me: No. Doctor: Do you have a need for any family planning methods? Me: No; I’m a lesbian. After years of prolonged conversations with doctors and nurses, I have discovered this is the only way to stop them trying to get me to take contraceptive pills, and [...]
Ebay is a fantastic concept with some mind-bogglingly poor execution. Just a rant, really, but I am fed up with the following: Having to log in to Ebay every time I start a new session, despite saying I would like to be ‘remembered’. The new Javascript thingy that pops up to tell me what else [...]