Ian Robinson’s Soapbox

I’ve just got the following in an Email from Andrew Guyton: Ok, I’ve attached a photo of your guitar. Must admit it doesn’t look very green in the picture, but I can assure you it is.The certificate is coming this Friday, so all being well, I’ll get the guitar on a carrier to you by [...]

Just bloody right too. Put the torches and pitchforks away folks. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has responded to complaints that Google’s Street View doesn’t do enough to protect citizens’ privacy by stating that removing Street View would be disproportionate to the relatively small risk of privacy detriment. More info at: UK rejects privacy group’s [...]

Not to shabby CUPERTINO, California—April 22, 2009—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 second quarter ended March 28, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 [...]

I’ve been neglecting my geek muscles way too much lately. It’s time to get back in the game and immerse myself in the new stuff that is hitting the market. Basically do stuff for The Plan minus the Open University stuff which I’ve dropped. From a infrastructure technology point of view I plan to dive [...]

This is a timed posting (I’m actually in bed asleep hopefully) to let the world know that I’ve just completed my 45th trip around the magnificent star we call Sol. Go me

It was 6 years ago today that I had an appointment with a Urologist in the Ulster Hospital to get a check-up for what looked like testicular cancer. It was. Now 6 years later I’m 50% deficient in the bollock department [the other one still works ] but still here to annoy people. Which is [...]

Like most people I get a stupid amount of email in work. Most of it I don’t need (cc’ed to me) or it’s something that could have been addressed by someone coming to talk to me. In the past it was perceived that sending an email was better than going to talk to a person, [...]

I’m not sure Willpower is the correct title for this post. But it’ll do. I recently posted this tweet to my Twitter stream: To which Bill Cooke replied: This got me thinking. I tend to make what looks like snap decisions about some things I want to do and once I’ve made such a decision [...]

Happy days. Just upgraded to newer version of WordPress. All seems to be working okay. This post will test the Twitter integration is working as well.

I’ve documented my experience with testicular cancer on this site quite extensively over the last 6 years. Have a look at the category for it. Best to read this post first. You’ll need to read the posts from the bottom of the page up to get the right order. I consider myself completely cured of [...]