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Welcome to my updated website. I wasn't getting any time to work on this anymore (see later posts about my family!) so I've decide to turn the whole site into a web log. I first wrote a web log back in 2002/3 when Flavia and I were travelling around the world, its still a fun read and you can see it here. For my new blog I've picked the main topics I seem to spend most time doing and researching and I'll blog them as I find anything I think is interesting or useful. Ask me question (I'll post it to the blog) by mailing me.
These are the last 5 entries in the blog, to view the blog by topic follow a link below or the link next to any post.
Technology | Web Development | Travel & family | Sport | Misc
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| roj Sport 14 June 2010 |
DLC 1sts managed to stay up in div 3 for next winter season, but it went to the last match. Because I basically missed the first half of the season I have now carried on into summer league, our team and the opposition is pretty much the same, just some of the courts are a lot hotter! Its the first time I have played in the summer since my first couple of seasons in teh late '80s, so the extar bounce is taking some getting used. I'm sure it will make me a better player, certainly a fitter one anyway! |
| roj Sport 1 March 2010 |
After our move down south last summer and a season off squash (no time with the birth of the twins) I have now started playing for Didcot LC in the Oxford squash league, currently for their first team in Div 3. I last played Oxford league in 94/95 for Challow Country club and before that for my first club Regent SC, it’s been quite a few years away but I still am recognising the odd player. OSRA league site. |
| roj Sport 13 August 2009 |
Well never say never, I ended up playing a large part of the 2009 season for MBC, for the A's after a club reorganisation saw the A's once again become the first team and the Rookie Torrent team become the second team, with the for NL team, the Eagles being wound up after 10 years of play. My last game was the 28th June, fittingly the MBC derby of the A's v Torrent, and I finished my last at bat with a double of another MBC founder member Ian Marchment who was pitching for the Torrent. It was an extra special year because my eldest son Alex came to all the games with me. |
| roj Sport 25 February 2009 |
Well 2008 saw my last game of baseball or MBC (Manchester baseball), and I have officially retired as a player. In total I played 175 league games (plus 12 cup) for MBC over 11 years, collecting 263 hits (7 home runs) and 170 RBI’s. I also pitched in at least a quarter of those games, and for 2 years I was club president and first team manager as well. So it’s a shame, but it’s time to move on. When I have time again I may go back to village cricket - hopefully with my son Alex (but I will be teaching him baseball too!). Until then I’ll just grab a round of golf whenever I can. |
| roj Technology 25 February 2009 |
No w that the price of blu-ray players has reached the price of HD-DVD a year ago, and also are available as profile 2.0. I’ve gone dual format and bought a blu-ray player, the Sony BDP S350. I bought it just before Christmas to take advantage of the various free disc offers, in fact I ended up getting 8 blu-rays with it – one more free disc than I got with Toshiba HD EP30! So how is it? Well I like it, obviously the quality of the (picture) output is exactly the same as the HD-DVD, but the player is well built, has digital coax and optical audio outs (nice) and the sound quality is as good if not better then my EP30. For upscaling standard DVDs it’s probably not as good as the EP30, but Toshiba has always been better with DVD. However due to the S350’s quick boot up time (much quicker than the EP30) and the S350 taking the only digital audio connection to my home cinema surround sound setup, it is my DVD player of preference. I won’t be giving up my EP30 though, it’s a nice machine and I still have a lot of great HD movies picked up really cheap (eg. Blade Runner, 2001, Matrix, etc). I’ll buy a few favourites on blu and use it for rental, but won’t be building a collection yet. Prices of discs are coming down, but are still too expensive and we rarely watch films more than once. The only real question is where was this BD player a year ago? |
Thanks to everyone who has enquired, but I am currently working as an Internet / Intranet and E-commerce consultant / developer for a large European consultancy firm. I am not looking for a new job, but if you are an employer / recruitment agency and you think you have the "offer of a life-time" then check my CV for details of what I might respond to.