Slightly late posting this (I twittered, Flickrd and emailed on the day), but Abigail Emily Beadle was born at 9.25pm on December 30th, 2007, weighing 7lbs. Mother & baby are mighty fine :) Phoebe is delighted to have a little sister, and Kathy is delighted not to have had another Caesarean section and the -attendant- +associated+ six weeks' recovery.

Three men walk into a bar. No…wait a minute. Techjuicer.com are running a competition, and you could win an iPod Nano! So could I, just by leaving a trackback, comment or sending a text message. Seeing as my 4G iPod is dying on its feet, it could come in quite handy.

Because not everyone has time to read mailing lists or check Upcoming, and one of the rules of BarCamp is that you do blog about BarCamp, here we go. BarCamp Bristol (Bristol’s first) will be taking place on October 12th-13th 2007 at Sift’s offices in Victoria St., Bristol. More information is available at BarCamp, Upcoming and you can sign up, too. What’s all this BarCamp stuff about, anyway? BarCamp is an unconference, which means that there is no distinction between attendees and speakers. Read more...

Bath 9 miles, Bristol 7 miles Originally uploaded by t1mmyb. I like cycling, if only because it’s not jogging, an enterprise I find tedious in the extreme. I’d much rather be playing football (that’s soccer for any Americans reading this), but you can’t thusly commute to work. We had a recent reaquaintance with the world’s favourite two-wheeled human-powered transport/leisure activity whilst on holiday in Cornwall. The weather wasn’t great for most of the week, and it bucketed down with rain just as we arrived in the car park in Wadebridge next to the Camel Trail; nevertheless we cycled from Wadebridge to Padstow (Phoebe resplendant in her new rack-mounted bike seat), had a cream tea and cycled back again. Read more...

On Tuesday I spoke at the February 2007 edition of Bristol Skillswap at The Watershed. I think it was the first time I’d given a public presentation, though I’ve given a few talks at work. There were about 25 people there, which was a sufficiently large number to elicit questions and feedback but not so large as to be intimidating. The subject of my talk was “Microformats: The Semantic Web for the Rest of Us”, and the slides are available online in lovely s5 format (a simple html file plus CSS and Javascript magic). Read more...

I didn’t sleep well last night, and eventually got up at 6.40am (the alarm had gone off at 6.20). Showered while it was still dark; bring on the clock change - I want my sunrise back! Kathy brought me toast and tea, which I started to eat while I got dressed. Phoebe was still asleep, though she had woken up a few times around 6, calling for her mummy. I synced my iPod to the computer. Read more...

The History Matters project is encouraging the ordinary citizens of the UK to blog about their everyday lives tomorrow, October 17th 2006. On first inspection, it sounded like a fine idea. I was all ready to kick the dust from my underused blog and start blogging. It’s not quite as simple as that, though. You can’t just blog anywhere; you have to use the History Matters One Day In History site. Read more...