Author: sroot

  • Rotary Internation Convention 2009 – First timer notes

    Here I am, hooray! blogging from the NEC for free, at a net cafe at the Rotary Interational Convention in Birmingham. In another 15 minutes I’ll be off to be a “HOC Ambassador”, HOC means “Host Organising Committee”, and ambassador means I volunteered to help. In my case, I’m told I’ll be handing out goody…

  • Goodbye Alicia

    Sad news. My mother in law, Alicia, died on Tuesday morning at 4am from Cancer. She was 53. The whole family were with her, we’d all travelled to the hospital in London to be there.

  • Moving to a new web server

    For many, many years (well, since 2004 which is a long time for internet things) my web server has been at Rackspace. Well, I say ‘my’ web server but in reality it’s their web server, dedicated to just my use and fully managed by them. They’ve been great. Small amounts of downtime, answering the phone…