As much as I usually enjoy my job, I really cannot wait for the opportunity to take some much earned time off and go back home to Manchester for Manchester Pride. So much so, that I have a countdown clock on my work computer’s desktop marking the (slowly) deminishing time between me and the end […]
2 years in London
Following on from last year’s post (it is really weird looking back at it), I thought that I would also recognise that today marks my second year in London – hurrah! To be honest, I still find London as a city a poor substitute for Manchester, however I think that’s just homesickness etc talking as […]
UNIX time system reaches 1234567890 seconds old
Just a quick one to give a passing nod to the UNIX time system, which will ‘celebrate’ reaching 1234567890 seconds old on Friday 13th February 2009. Or, to re-phrase, at 23:31:30 GMT on 13/02/2009 it will be 1234567890 seconds since 00:00:00 GMT on 1/1/1970, which was the UNIX epoch. I hasten to add that it […]
New Year will be delayed this year.
Fab story from the BBC News website (source) that reports that 23:59 will actually last for 61 seconds this year instead of the usual 60. I am a little unsure of how why the BBC terms it ‘rare’ for this to happen though, as by my calculation, over the last 36 years, there have been […]
Gari Wellingham 