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2026 (3)

January 5th - Some predictions for 2026
January 3rd - 2025, quantified
January 1st - Happy New Year!

2025 (188)

December 31st - 2025: a year in review
December 29th - Reviewing my 2025 predictions
December 27th - PowerCalc for Home Assistant
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 23rd - My best children’s books of 2025
December 21st - Playlist of the month: Novelty Christmas
December 19th - My best adult fiction books of 2025
December 17th - Fritz! Repeater 3000AX
December 15th - My best non-fiction books of 2025
December 13th - Pressidium Cookie Consent plugin review
December 11th - Recycling your food waste
December 9th - Setting WPA mode on ESPHome
December 7th - Fritz!Box 7530 AX review
December 5th - How will electric car owners pay the new mileage tax?
December 3rd - Achieving a state of internet Zen
December 1st - 92% done with 2025
November 29th - Unblogged November
November 27th - York’s Chocolate Story
November 25th - Getting ready for Christmas
November 23rd - Filler content
November 21st - Full of your daily dose of fibre (broadband)
November 19th - Thought Bubble 2025
November 17th - Kelham Island Museum
November 15th - Ecosia
November 13th - Playlist of the month: Songs about Trains
November 11th - WordPress Wayback Link Fixer plugin
November 9th - Why do I like trains so much?
November 7th - Buying things on AliExpress
November 5th - Using an iPad as a desktop PC
November 3rd - The World of Glass
November 1st - Now it’s November
October 30th - Unblogged October
October 28th - Rude Science
October 26th - Meeting the Map Men in Leeds
October 24th - Castlefield Viaduct
October 22nd - How many theatres are there in Bradford?
October 20th - Operation Ouch: Brains, Bogies and You
October 18th - Park and Ride for Northern English Cities
October 16th - Difference between level 1, 2 and 3 chargers
October 14th - Playlist of the month: Rain
October 12th - Windows 10 Extended Security Updates
October 10th - Haden 4-in-1 Air Fryer Microwave review
October 8th - When you should (and shouldn’t) charge your electric car to 100%
October 6th - Converting a Tasmota smart plug to ESPHome
October 4th - Regenerative braking in electric cars
October 2nd - Bowland Wild Boar and Animal Park
September 30th - Unblogged September
September 29th - Playlist of the month: Symphonic Metal
September 27th - Bolton Abbey
September 25th - Route planning apps for electric cars
September 23rd - Little Moreton Hall
September 21st - Button battery charger
September 19th - Cadbury World
September 17th - Energy monitoring over Matter
September 15th - The Art of the Brick exhibition in Leeds
September 13th - Miscellaneous notes on North Wales
September 11th - Our 2025 holiday: Chester Zoo
September 9th - Cohhee Intelligent Battery Charger
September 7th - Our 2025 holiday: RSPB Conwy
September 5th - Just the one child, thanks
September 3rd - The Cat That Slept for a Thousand Years
September 1st - Septembaargh
August 31st - Our 2025 holiday: Bodnant Garden
August 29th - Playlist of the month: Welsh pop music
August 27th - Our 2025 holiday: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch station
August 25th - New new new iPad
August 23rd - Our 2025 holiday: Anglesey Sea Zoo
August 21st - National Trust Tracker app
August 19th - Our 2025 holiday: Plas Newydd
August 17th - Higoom Cordless car air pump review
August 15th - Our 2025 holiday: Beaumaris Castle
August 13th - Some thoughts on the state of public electric car charging in 2025
August 11th - Our 2025 holiday: Portmeirion
August 9th - How we handled poor phone reception
August 7th - Our 2025 Holiday: Llandudno & The Great Orme
August 5th - How to disable go2rtc in Home Assistant
August 3rd - Our 2025 holiday: Conwy
August 1st - Aaaaaaah, August again
July 31st - Playlist of the month: Artists turned actors
July 29th - Home Assistant Green review
July 27th - Nanoleaf Matter Essentials LED Bulb review
July 25th - Tasmota firmware upgrade failing due to lack of storage space
July 23rd - TasmoAdmin: manage multiple Tasmota devices
July 21st - Our 2018 summer holiday in the Loire
July 19th - Heading off on holiday to North Wales
July 17th - Robin Ince and Pierre Novellie at BradfordLitFest
July 15th - The Potato Book and The Snack Hacker
July 13th - Hello to our new electric car
July 12th - Farewell to our old car
July 11th - Tuya-Cloudcutter
July 9th - Portisch firmware on a Sonoff RF Bridge
July 7th - Our journey towards an electric car – part IV
July 5th - Ditching proprietary Zigbee bridges
July 3rd - Our journey towards an electric car – part III
July 1st - Into the latter half of 2025
June 29th - Zigbee PIR motion sensor
June 27th - Playlist of the month: Remixes
June 25th - ESP Firmware alternatives
June 23rd - Which integrations are slowing down Home Assistant?
June 21st - Flashing Tuya smart plugs with Tasmota
June 20th - ProBreeze portable air conditioner review
June 19th - Recent travel miscellany
June 17th - Assorted notes on Athens
June 15th - 10 years of being a homeowner
June 13th - LanguageCert HE Summit in Athens
June 11th - The Athens Acropolis
June 9th - Hello from Athens!
June 7th - Our journey towards an electric car – part II
June 5th - Which UK counties have I visited?
June 3rd - Tuya Zigbee Window Sensors
June 1st - Jooooooooooooon
May 31st - Integration
May 29th - Our journey towards an electric car – part I
May 27th - How to: read a not-so-smart export meter
May 25th - Birthday blogging
May 23rd - How many UNESCO World Heritage sites have I visited?
May 21st - How to: Use automatic Octopus tariff data in the Solax app
May 19th - Authors I’ve read 5 or more books by
May 17th - Playlist of the month: British Eurovision hits
May 15th - Bifrost – a Hue smart light emulator
May 13th - Eurovision 2025 – my verdicts
May 11th - York Model Railway Show 2025
May 9th - Separating the art from the artist
May 7th - Byland Abbey
May 5th - No more Google Nest themostats in Europe
May 3rd - Ampleforth Abbey
May 1st - No Mow May
April 30th - National Centre for Birds of Prey
April 28th - Playlist of the Month: Wedding first dances
April 26th - Knowsley Safari Park
April 24th - Decarbonising London’s Rail Termini
April 22nd - National Emergency Services Museum
April 20th - Happy Easter!
April 18th - How to use bindings in Zigbee
April 16th - Is it the Easter holidays?
April 14th - RSPB Fairburn Ings
April 12th - Well this weather is rather lovely
April 10th - The new Areas dashboard in Home Assistant
April 8th - How to save money with gift cards
April 6th - A Minecraft Movie review
April 4th - No more Google Assistant on Fitbit Versa 3
April 2nd - How to: Make Bluesky more manageable
March 31st - A highly subjective ranking of UK cinema chains
March 29th - Playlist of the month: Robert Miles’ Children
March 27th - Sci-Fi Weekender XVI – a retrospective
March 25th - Dashboard Badges in Home Assistant
March 23rd - Six port car charger review
March 21st - Sci-Fi Weekender XVI
March 19th - Does your phone have a wrist strap?
March 17th - National Trust properties reachable from West Yorkshire (part two)
March 15th - Shapewear: is it worth it?
March 13th - Abbey House Museum
March 11th - A tale of two dongles
March 9th - National Trust properties reachable from West Yorkshire
March 7th - Cooking with a slow cooker
March 5th - How many British Prime Ministers have you lived through?
March 3rd - Learning French and Welsh with Duolingo
March 1st - Springing into March
February 27th - Grouping devices together in Home Assistant
February 25th - Let’s make the Bradford Playhouse accessible
February 23rd - Homeway – easy remote access to Home Assistant
February 21st - The Earth Centre, Conisbrough
February 19th - Playlist of the month: 2000s Student Union Rock night
February 17th - Sous vide cooking in an Instant Pot
February 15th - Magna Science Adventure Centre
February 13th - Onvis Matter and Thread Smart Plug review
February 11th - How to use Bluesky Labellers
February 9th - Recent sidebar additions
February 7th - Resolver – a tool for complaining
February 5th - Answering the blog questions challenge
February 3rd - Finally February, again
February 1st - I’m hosting a webinar for LGBT+ History Month
January 30th - Could our house go off-grid?
January 28th - Playlist of the month: Electro Swing
January 26th - Radiator reflectors
January 24th - Neurodiversity
January 22nd - A trip to the Company Shop
January 20th - The Sad Bastard Cookbook
January 18th - Two years of solar
January 16th - Bradford 2025 – UK City of Culture
January 14th - 23rd blogiversary
January 13th - Snow longer welcome
January 11th - Bringing back more blog posts from the archives
January 9th - Is Five Guys sustainable in the UK in the long term?
January 7th - Jorvik Viking Centre
January 5th - 2024, quantified
January 3rd - Some predictions for 2025
January 1st - Welcome to 2025!

2024 (193)

December 31st - 2024: a year in review
December 29th - Reviewing my 2024 predictions
December 27th - Playlist of the month: New Year
December 25th - Merry Christmanoëlavidad!
December 23rd - My best children’s fiction books of 2024
December 22nd - My best adult fiction books of 2024
December 19th - My best non-fiction books of 2024
December 17th - Shopmium – cashback on grocery shopping
December 15th - Adventures with a Homey Pro
December 13th - Splitting and renaming the Underground
December 11th - Croissant, a social media cross-posting app
December 9th - Koko Analytics – a stats plugin for WordPress
December 7th - Is the Waterloo & City Line Step Free? It’s Complicated
December 5th - How to: view and share pronouns on Bluesky
December 3rd - Bolling Hall Museum, Bradford
December 1st - Descending into December
November 30th - Playlist of the month: Musicals
November 28th - Cheques, postal orders and the DVLA
November 26th - The coming enshittification of Canon Camera Connect
November 24th - Storm Bert
November 22nd - Bridgy Fed – linking Bluesky with the Fediverse
November 20th - My evolving home working environment
November 18th - DNA – Data Not Amendable
November 16th - Skeets, an iOS client for Bluesky
November 14th - Sky Follower Bridge
November 12th - Patronage! At the Costco
November 10th - Hello from a new host
November 8th - Oh, America, not again
November 6th - Comparing Bluetooth and Zigbee plant monitors
November 4th - Steetek USB/HDMI KVM Switch review
November 2nd - Comparing Zigbee2MQTT with ZHA
October 31st - Playlist of the month: Halloween Party
October 30th - Spooky Skeletons at Lotherton Hall
October 28th - Have you ever been to a Greggs Outlet?
October 26th - So long, Solax local API
October 24th - The Mersey Tunnels
October 22nd - The Museum of Liverpool
October 20th - Wi-fi version numbers
October 18th - Taking a ferry across the Mersey
October 16th - Visiting the ‘other’ Eureka in Wirral
October 14th - Fully-vaccinated and ready for winter
October 12th - Beetlejuice 1 and 2
October 10th - My life in railcards
October 8th - Sowerby Bridge blog posts
October 6th - How many parking apps do you have?
October 4th - It’s Bandcamp Friday
October 3rd - The Current Account Switch Guarantee
October 1st - Welcome to October
September 30th - WordPress, and conflicts of interest
September 28th - Comparing ZeroSSL and Let’s Encrypt
September 26th - Frustratingly, paper bank statements are still a necessity
September 24th - Things I’ve learned about running a dishwasher
September 22nd - Manually renewing SSL certificates with Certbot
September 20th - Kvidio Bluetooth headphones review
September 18th - Furthest compass points
September 16th - Playlist of the Month: Ikea
September 14th - My chosen HACS integrations
September 12th - Sometimes it’s good just to write utter rubbish
September 10th - Apple AirPods Pro as hearing aids
September 8th - Mr Fitzpatrick’s Temperance Bar
September 6th - HACS – community components for Home Assistant
September 4th - A visit to Gawthorpe Hall
September 2nd - Joining all the Brits and Brazilians on Bluesky
August 31st - Playlist of the month: 90s Summer
August 29th - A return trip to the National Coal Mining Museum
August 27th - Our go-to cookbooks
August 25th - Storm Lilian
August 23rd - What we didn’t do in Northumberland
August 21st - Our 2024 holiday: Beamish
August 19th - How I stopped Teams from glitching
August 17th - Our 2024 holiday: Cragside
August 15th - Our 2024 holiday: Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
August 13th - Max Card – discounted days out
August 11th - Our 2024 holiday: Warkworth Castle
August 9th - Our 2024 holiday: The Farne Islands
August 7th - Creating a Bluetooth proxy with ESPHome
August 5th - Our 2024 holiday: The Alnwick Garden
August 3rd - Our 2024 holiday: Bamburgh Castle
August 1st - Welcome to August
July 31st - Playlist of the month: Actors turned artists
July 29th - Our 2024 holiday: Seahouses
July 27th - Back from our holidays
July 25th - Our 2022 summer holiday in Brittany
July 25th - Our 2023 summer holiday in the Loire
July 23rd - Our 2021 summer holiday in Kent and East Sussex
July 21st - Our 2019 summer holiday in the Dordogne
July 19th - Using an SSD with a Raspberry Pi
July 17th - The benefits of a domestic holiday
July 15th - Comparing different smart home protocols
July 13th - Displaying CPU temperature in Home Assistant
July 11th - Raspberry Pi cooling fan and case
July 9th - Modern Image Formats plugin
July 7th - Some 2029 election predictions
July 5th - A General Election debrief
July 4th - It’s polling day!
July 3rd - Phomemo D30 Bluetooth Label Printer review
July 1st - Madam Misfit
June 29th - A temperature-controlled fan using Generic Thermostat in Home Assistant
June 27th - Playlist of the month: Appalling Cheese
June 25th - Blocking AI crawlers
June 23rd - Sonoff Wi-Fi RF Bridge review
June 21st - Cheap international roaming – Airalo eSIM
June 19th - The 7 election candidates in Halifax
June 17th - European motorway toll tag
June 15th - An incoming General Election
June 13th - A week off
June 6th - Cross-posting on socials
June 4th - The Black Country Living Museum
June 2nd - ThermoPro TP357 Bluetooth thermometer review
May 31st - IF – a film about imaginary friends
May 29th - Dudley Zoo and Castle
May 27th - AboutMy.email
May 25th - Oh blimey I’m 40 now
May 24th - Ethical investing
May 22nd - Sign up to my newsletter
May 20th - Jodrell Bank
May 18th - Tropical Butterfly House
May 16th - Investing in Stocks & Shares ISAs
May 14th - Some recent things I have learned about SEO
May 12th - Delicious in Dungeon
May 10th - Playlist of the month: Eurovision hits
May 8th - Eurovision 2024 – my verdicts
May 6th - Home Assistant and Google Home broadcasts
May 4th - 11th wedding anniversary
May 2nd - Election day
April 30th - Playlist of the month: Covers
April 28th - Is it worth using premium car fuel?
April 26th - Not going out
April 24th - More car-related shenanigans
April 22nd - Butterfly Tale
April 20th - Patty Gurdy
April 18th - Heat Pump mythbusting
April 16th - Baking our own bread
April 14th - Unfortunate – the untold story of Ursula the Sea Witch
April 12th - Sprive – a mortgage over-payment app
April 10th - East Riddlesden Hall
April 8th - The advantages of a smart home
April 6th - On the Snooks Trail in York
April 4th - How do you solve a problem like the Central Line?
April 2nd - Meross energy monitoring smart plugs
March 31st - Happy Easter!
March 29th - Playlist of the month: Funeral songs
March 27th - 25 years of Rollercoaster Tycoon
March 25th - The expense of keeping a car on the road
March 23rd - Using Toolbelt instead of Jetpack on WordPress
March 21st - Converting Tuya devices to Tasmota
March 19th - The Cartoon Museum
March 17th - Young V&A
March 15th - Sci-Fi Weekender XV
March 13th - Build Something Better by Grace Petrie
March 11th - Cute at Somerset House
March 9th - Bank of England Museum
March 7th - Back from London
March 5th - OpenBenches
March 3rd - Pop Music Activism
March 1st - CarPlay with Home Assistant
February 29th - Leaping towards London
February 27th - Playlist of the month: Alcohol
February 25th - Disney Minus
February 23rd - AdGuard Home
February 21st - Readly and PressReader
February 19th - What to do if you find a bat
February 17th - Nginx Proxy Manager
February 15th - GoblinTools
February 13th - A basic Home Assistant automation
February 11th - Sign language on trains
February 9th - How we dry laundry
February 7th - What ChatGPT thinks about Omar’s
February 5th - Omar’s Balti House in Bradford
February 3rd - How to join a preferred Thread network in Home Assistant
February 1st - Finally February
January 30th - Playlist of the month: duets
January 28th - Sonoff Zigbee and Thread/Matter dongle
January 26th - Finding alternatives to Goodreads
January 24th - Silencing unknown callers
January 22nd - Recent days out
January 20th - Is there a Zigbee network in your house?
January 18th - One mouse to rule them all
January 16th - Back to posts every other day
January 14th - 22nd blogiversary
January 13th - WordPress backups with UpdraftPlus
January 12th - MakeMKV review
January 11th - New old posts from the archives, part 3
January 10th - How to: install Home Assistant Supervised on a Raspberry Pi
January 9th - Simplenote
January 8th - Broadband speeds
January 7th - SoundPrint – an app for finding quiet spaces
January 6th - Wonka and Wish
January 5th - Avatars
January 4th - The Birthday Gift of Blogging
January 3rd - Some predictions for 2024
January 2nd - 2023, quantified
January 1st - Happy New Year!

2023 (35)

December 31st - 2023: a year in review
December 30th - My favourite things of 2023
December 29th - A WordPress plugin update fix
December 27th - Playlist of the month: my favourite Christmas songs
December 25th - Merry Christmas
December 23rd - Switching to a new ISP
December 21st - An apology for the pause
December 10th - I wear hearing aids now
December 8th - AI art
December 6th - More new old posts from the archives
December 4th - Why you shouldn’t buy gift cards as presents
December 2nd - Mounting a USB hard drive on startup on Ubuntu Core
November 30th - Playlist of the month: guitar-heavy indie rock
November 28th - Ultra Processed Food
November 26th - Home Assistant with HTTPS and HomeKit
November 24th - Using Portainer to manage Docker
November 22nd - Managing e-books with Calibre-web
November 20th - Comment Spam strikes back
November 18th - Asking your friends a question every day
November 16th - Bringing back the archives
November 14th - I wear glasses now
November 12th - Running Home Assistant in Docker and Snap
November 6th - New theme, who dis?
November 3rd - Ghost Signs
October 29th - Getting started with Home Assistant
October 28th - The times, they are upgrading
October 13th - Finding peace
October 1st - Being more or less social
April 12th - New photo albums on Flickr
April 11th - New new new new new iPhone
March 28th - More in common
March 27th - Adding CarPlay to your car without installing a new stereo system
February 1st - Adventures in setting up Homebridge for HomeKit
January 23rd - Solar, so good
January 14th - 21st-ish blogiversary

2022 (8)

December 31st - 2022 in review
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 5th - The joy of having a new kitchen
November 24th - WordPress in the Fediverse
November 4th - Good intentions and Mastodon
June 8th - Home improvements
June 5th - Parenting a six year old
June 3rd - What’s this? A blog post?

2018 (20)

September 26th - Seatfrog – how to get a cheap first class upgrade
August 30th - My Podcast Diet – August 2018
August 10th - How to: fix incorrect date and time on an Amazon Kindle Fire
August 7th - Stockeld Park Summer Adventure
August 6th - New new new new iPhone
August 5th - Crich Tramway Village
August 4th - Using the Gutenberg editor in WordPress
August 3rd - It’s been a while, again
June 2nd - Chester Zoo
May 30th - New new iPad
May 25th - Birthday
May 15th - Comparing smart speakers
May 14th - Google Home Mini review
May 13th - Elsecar Heritage Centre
April 18th - Neil’s guide to surviving a cold
April 15th - We need to buy a new printer
April 9th - Nest Protect Review
April 5th - PRINCE2 certified
April 4th - Koopower Wireless Doorbell review
January 1st - New Year’s Resolutions for 2018

2017 (40)

December 30th - What to expect in 2018
December 29th - 2017 in review
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
October 31st - 100 days of Fitbit
September 23rd - It’s Bi Visibility Day, and I’m coming out
September 13th - Kilnsey Park Estate
August 24th - TP-Link Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit review
August 23rd - Adventures in home networking
August 10th - Ponderosa Farm & Rural Therapeutic Centre
July 29th - Cannon Hall Farm
July 14th - Manchester Airport Runway Visitor Park
July 13th - Quarry Bank Mill
July 11th - Fitbit Alta HR review
July 8th - Thornton Hall Farm Country Park
July 6th - What was your first Amazon purchase?
July 4th - RSPB Bempton Cliffs nature reserve
July 2nd - V&A Museum of Childhood
July 1st - Goodreads
June 30th - Step-free access on London Underground
June 29th - Ravensprings Park Model Railway open day
May 17th - When Jeremy Corbyn came to Bradford
May 15th - A child-free night out
May 5th - Getting started with Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books
May 4th - May the wedding anniversary be with you
April 28th - Listening to books, part V (Fiction edition)
April 27th - Going back to Eureka as an adult
April 25th - Beningbrough Hall
April 23rd - The National Coal Mining Museum for England
April 17th - Low Moor railway station
April 12th - Entertaining a toddler for a week
April 5th - Listening to books, part IV
April 2nd - Planning a London trip
March 23rd - PPE – the degree that runs Britain
March 22nd - Contemplating Apple’s updated iPad range
March 7th - Fitbit-less
February 27th - Askham Bryan Wildlife & Conservation Park
February 6th - Travel ban-dango
January 9th - A return visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park
January 5th - How to: fix wrong location on iPhone
January 3rd - Google Chromecast review

2016 (42)

December 30th - 2016 in review
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 2nd - Terra & Terra’s World, by Mitch Benn
December 1st - Listening to books, part III
November 25th - A day out in Oxford and its museums
November 11th - Oh, America
October 6th - Laaaan-dun
September 9th - Kirkstall Forge – Yorkshire’s newest station
August 3rd - Car insurance renewal preparation
July 28th - Hollingworth Lake
July 26th - A day out in Liverpool
July 22nd - Pokémon Go
June 24th - Devastated
June 22nd - I’m voting Remain
May 29th - Listening to books, part II
May 25th - Thirty-two
May 24th - mPow Magneto wireless Bluetooth headset review
May 23rd - Nesting
May 20th - Adventures with a black box
May 17th - New boiler
May 16th - Making a house a home (part VIII)
May 15th - Departing Azeroth
May 6th - Sending everything to Gmail
May 2nd - A day out at Chatsworth
May 1st - 30 days of Fitbit
April 1st - A new dawn for trains in the North
March 28th - Lotherton Hall
March 27th - York Model Railway Show
March 22nd - Home Farm at Temple Newsam
March 21st - Vaccinations
March 15th - The Guilty Feminist Podcast
March 1st - Kate Lycett’s Lost Houses
February 29th - 29th February
February 15th - Yorkshire Wildlife Park
February 9th - Unfitbit
February 8th - Back at work
January 31st - Big data and data analytics Seminar
January 20th - App of the Week: Laundry Day
January 18th - Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays
January 14th - 14 years of blogging
January 5th - Netgear WN3000RP Wi-Fi Range Extender review
January 1st - Hello 2016!

2015 (71)

December 31st - 2015 in review
December 27th - Flooding in Sowerby Bridge
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 22nd - Birth bureaucracy
December 2nd - App of the week: Carrot Weather
November 24th - Baby update
November 23rd - Netgear Nighthawk EX7000 review
November 17th - Professor Elemental
November 16th - Thought Bubble 2015
November 15th - 20 is plenty
November 13th - Dara Ó Briain’s Crowd Tickler
November 10th - Brewing my own beer with Brew Barrel
October 30th - The trouble with relying on free things
October 29th - Taking a Thames Clipper
October 27th - The Old Brewery, Greenwich
October 26th - Going back in time
October 25th - The Cutty Sark
October 23rd - No, Bradford is not the worst place to live in the UK
October 22nd - New post on Medium: Bluetooth on iOS
October 21st - Losing the language of love
October 19th - Hey, Rug Doctor, give us the magic words!
October 12th - A weekend in London
October 8th - Recycling
October 7th - Mac-less
October 6th - Fitbit Charge review
October 4th - Making a house a home (part VI)
September 20th - Making a house a home (part V)
September 17th - George Egg – Anarchist Cook
September 14th - How to: get cheaper car insurance
September 13th - A car. An actual car.
September 11th - 20 week scan
September 7th - A wee trip to Scotland
September 6th - Making a house a home (part IV)
August 4th - Passed
July 29th - It’s worth buying a new washing machine
July 27th - Knowing how the cookie crumbles
July 23rd - Finding a Medium
July 21st - Camkix Selfie Stick Review
July 13th - Mystery meal
July 12th - Making a house a home (part III)
July 9th - MET#6: Dubai airport
July 8th - Expecting
July 7th - MET#5: Salalah
July 7th - Secret Starbucks Sizes
July 6th - Making Victoria Posh
July 5th - MET#4: Muscat, Oman
July 3rd - TripIt review
July 2nd - MET#3: Bahrain (or at least its airport)
July 1st - Making a house a home (part II)
June 30th - MET#2: Amman
June 29th - MET#1: Getting around to writing about it
June 19th - Combining travel discounts
June 14th - Making a house a home (part I)
June 3rd - Our House – The Madness Musical
May 26th - Tropical World
May 25th - May 25th
May 19th - Being a train driver at the Foxfield Railway
April 27th - Hear Me Sing!
April 17th - Theoretically passed
March 20th - Off to foreign lands
March 19th - A year without Dave
March 10th - Don’t believe me, just watch
March 6th - Moby Dick! The Musical at the Bradford Playhouse
February 20th - The Bradford Brewery
February 19th - SSL-secured
February 16th - Home Shopping, part II
February 12th - Hello from the new server!
February 2nd - New, new iPhone
January 23rd - Home Shopping
January 14th - Diary of a Teenage Blog
January 1st - Hello 2015!

2014 (81)

December 31st - 2014 in review
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 7th - Distracted in Draenor
November 24th - Susan Calman
November 23rd - Frisky & Mannish
November 21st - The Record Café, Bradford
November 20th - Northern Rail’s “Intercity” services
November 18th - Nottingham
November 17th - Thought Bubble Comic Con, Leeds
November 14th - 528 bus from Halifax to Rochdale
November 13th - De-Google-ifying, part II
November 9th - How I came to be on the ‘Chav’ page of Wikipedia
November 7th - A day out in Hawes
November 3rd - Netflix – 8 tips to get the most from your subscription
October 30th - Bruges
October 28th - Going on a P&O ‘mini-cruise’ to Bruges
September 16th - The Brontë Garden at Sowerby Bridge station
September 5th - The Ice Bucket Challenge
August 25th - Brimham Rocks
August 19th - Shattered
August 17th - Goodbye Delicious, hello Pinboard
August 10th - Alestorm’s new album
July 29th - Making do with last year’s model
July 21st - Roku 2 XS Streaming Player review
July 17th - Un-cancelling Dropbox Pro
July 15th - The Seven Minute Workout
July 14th - …and back in the gym too
July 8th - Cancelling Dropbox Pro
July 7th - Easing lactose intolerance with lactase
July 7th - Back in the driving seat…
July 4th - Le Tour de France comes to Yorkshire
June 30th - Blackpool Zoo
June 29th - A quick Blackpool visit
June 26th - Purchasing a video streaming box
June 24th - Joining Netflix
June 22nd - Save The New Bradford Playhouse
June 18th - I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue comes to Bradford
June 17th - So long, Thunderbird
June 8th - Happy Valley
May 30th - Flying without checked-in luggage
May 29th - Shiny new iPad
May 27th - Notes on Dublin
May 26th - The things we did in Dublin
May 25th - The big Three Oh
May 23rd - Back from Dublin
May 9th - Eurovision Eve
May 5th - My favourite add-ons for Thunderbird
May 4th - Paper anniversary
April 29th - My first BuzzFeed Listicle
April 21st - A bank holiday visit to Hebden Bridge
April 18th - Debating whether to ditch Dropbox Pro
April 14th - The big post-Heartbleed password change
April 13th - Kickstarted: Frisky & Mannish’s Pop Education Trilogy
April 11th - Disconnecting from work email
April 10th - Stem my bleeding heart
April 7th - Office 365 University
March 31st - Marriage
March 25th - Dave Jennings – 1960-2014
March 21st - Five years on
March 18th - The re-launched Microsoft OneNote
March 17th - Little Shop of Horrors
March 11th - Preventing Tetanus
March 10th - Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester
March 7th - Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
March 6th - A letter from me to myself in 1999 about the internet
March 3rd - The Two Together Railcard
February 27th - How to: call Freephone numbers on mobiles for free
February 24th - Tapped Leeds
February 20th - We Will Rock You
February 19th - Reluctantly opting out of care.data
February 18th - Taking the Megabusplus to London
February 17th - 27 hours in London
February 14th - Valentines Day
February 11th - Sunday afternoon at the movies
February 7th - Gin
February 3rd - Doctor Who & Me at the National Media Museum
January 30th - Bradford’s Westfield shopping centre is finally happening
January 27th - Manchester Beer Festival 2014
January 20th - Exploring a new realm
January 19th - Kickstarted: reviewing the projects I’ve backed on Kickstarter
January 14th - Blogiversary number 12

2013 (48)

December 29th - Looking forward to 2014
December 27th - 2013 in review
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 5th - Five pints
November 22nd - 50 years of Doctor Who
November 13th - App of the Week: Airmail
November 1st - Upgrading to Windows 8.1
October 28th - The Transpennine Real Ale Trail
October 24th - Mavericks – my review
October 7th - Armley Mills Industrial Museum
October 1st - Assorted notes on London
September 30th - On a top secret hotel mission
September 13th - The Sowerby Bridge Geese
September 11th - My Apple predictions – how did I do?
September 10th - My predictions for today’s Apple event
August 29th - Calderdale Industrial Museum
August 28th - What I’ve done with my Raspberry Pi so far
July 24th - App of the Week: Quidco ClickSnap
July 19th - The blood donation interval study
July 18th - BT Home Hub 4 Review
July 15th - Adventures in lactose intolerance
June 10th - Bollywood Carmen Live in Bradford
June 9th - A day out in Saltaire
June 7th - Save the National Media Museum
May 28th - The life of a 29-year-old
May 14th - Paris cultural observations
May 6th - 10 tips for planning your wedding
May 5th - Married
May 3rd - Incoming nuptials
April 23rd - I came, I saw, iPad
April 22nd - All stagged out
April 2nd - Transitioning away from Google
March 28th - Google Reader alternatives: Comparing Newsblur & Feedly
March 22nd - Things are a little quiet around here
March 14th - The demise of Google Reader
February 18th - Trinity Leeds
February 17th - My Twitter archive
February 10th - My new favourite email client
February 8th - Fixing high memory usage caused by mds
February 4th - Visiting Harrogate
January 31st - Trying out app.net
January 25th - Photos from Chester
January 21st - Metrolink to the Trafford Centre
January 15th - HMV’s fall into administration
January 14th - 11 years
January 13th - Aaron Swartz 1986-2013
January 7th - Comparing the iPhone 5 with the Nokia 100
January 6th - People’s History Museum

2012 (39)

December 28th - 2012 in review
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 18th - Boycotting Google
December 16th - How to use Google Sync without using Exchange
December 2nd - Bicester Village
November 30th - Britain’s best high streets
November 20th - Printer sharing with VirtualBox on a Mac
November 15th - Blood donation
October 30th - Windows 8 Installation Experience
October 16th - Parting the Mists
October 5th - The probable abandonment of Twitter’s official OS X app
September 25th - iBought a new iPhone
September 2nd - Rushbearing in Sowerby Bridge
August 1st - Unexpected plain text password in the bagging area
July 27th - Free audience tickets for TV recordings
July 20th - First Thunderbird, now Sparrow…
July 12th - Tweetbot for Mac in Alpha testing
July 8th - Thunderbird on life support
July 3rd - On blogging something every day
July 1st - Tweetbot for Mac coming soon
June 21st - Creswell Crags
June 18th - Manchester Metrolink reaches Oldham
June 13th - Picasa vs iPhoto
June 11th - Newby Hall
June 6th - RailFest 2012
June 5th - London, the Howgills, Keswick and RailFest
May 25th - Officially in my late twenties
May 22nd - 10,000 tweets
May 15th - Listening to books
May 2nd - Cinemas and Sowerby Bridge
April 29th - The technical superiority of Dropbox
April 24th - SkyDrive vs Dropbox vs Google Drive
April 8th - The Equal Civil Marriage Consultation
March 23rd - Distracted by a Pictionary clone
March 14th - App of the Week: Osfoora
February 29th - Not so much leaping as groaning
February 13th - Coffee
January 22nd - Chilly
January 14th - 10 years

2011 (43)

December 27th - 2011 in review
December 25th - Joyeux Noel
December 18th - SkyDrive vs Dropbox
December 15th - Lurgified
December 8th - The Demise of Gowalla
December 7th - My Travelodge Experience
December 6th - New camera!
November 23rd - A year out of the city
November 16th - Movember
November 13th - Making a Mess in the Kitchen
October 26th - App of the Week: Tweetbot
October 14th - Engagement
September 13th - Changing the theme
September 8th - Foursquare Thursday – Are its competitors withering?
September 5th - Bingley Music Live 2011
August 30th - Neil and Christine’s Geocaching Adventure
August 25th - Foursquare Thursday – August madness
August 2nd - The state of MacFUSE & NTFS-3G on OS X Lion
July 27th - App of the Week: TweetDeck
July 26th - Being a tourist
July 25th - Mac OS X Lion – first impressions
July 4th - Getting motivated to go to the gym
June 27th - Wakefield and the Hepworth Gallery
June 20th - Leventhorpe Vineyard
June 17th - How to do London without spending too much money
June 6th - Back from the wilderness
May 31st - Goodbye Melody, Hello WordPress
May 10th - Flat-warmed
April 20th - Why I’ve voted Yes
April 17th - 30 Day Song Challenge Day 30
April 8th - A rant about BT
April 4th - I Like To Move It Move It
March 23rd - Brain transplant
March 19th - 30 Day Song Challenge Day 1: Your Favourite Song
March 13th - More Melodic
March 11th - Enabling hardware acceleration on Firefox 4
March 2nd - Och Aye The Noo and all that
February 22nd - What the cool kids are using
February 21st - All Your Base Are Belong To Serco
February 19th - 2-Factor authentication on Google
February 10th - Foursquare Thursday
January 15th - How to: Restart frozen iOS apps
January 14th - 9th blogiversary

2010 (30)

December 29th - 2010 in review
December 22nd - A bigger Dropbox, for free
November 28th - Moved
November 6th - Not dead yet
October 27th - Moving out of the city
October 14th - London’s public transport
September 28th - Demise of Web 1.5
September 17th - iBought an iPhone
September 13th - Bloglines closing down
September 5th - Bingley Music Live 2010
August 17th - National Railway Museum
August 7th - Vest Pocket Kodak
July 13th - Back home
July 1st - Miscellany
June 23rd - Buying rail tickets
June 13th - Bradford Mela 2010
May 25th - I R Older
May 22nd - When 2 become 1 – Bradford stations prologue
May 17th - Resurrecting a dead OS with KernelEx
May 3rd - Bradford – a tale of two stations
April 20th - I’m backing the Liberal Democrats
April 16th - The Calder Valley Line
March 19th - Bradford – things to see and do as a tourist
March 10th - Transperience, Bradford’s forgotten transport museum
March 10th - App of the Week: Tweetie
February 25th - Things I like about Belgium
February 23rd - Up and running again!
January 7th - Snow in Bradford
January 6th - New host
January 5th - Blackpool Zoo

2009 (26)

December 27th - 2009 in review
December 25th - Merry Christmas everyone!
December 1st - The benefits of joined-up IT systems
November 22nd - New laptop
November 18th - Tumbleweed
October 22nd - Things I have done to fix the ‘Bluetooth: Not Available’ error on Mac OS X
October 14th - The RealPlayer Expirement
October 12th - Blackpool
September 28th - LG Flatron W2353V review
September 25th - LG Flatron W2353V
August 29th - There’s no leopard like Snow Leopard…
July 31st - Fun with HP Printers
July 16th - Back from France
June 25th - Melody
June 24th - The film queue
May 25th - Twenty Five
May 3rd - Solid Gold Chartbusters
April 30th - National Cycle Network Mileposts
April 15th - The point of blogging
March 23rd - End of the line
March 8th - Rovers returning to Denton?
February 21st - Wikipedia names your band
February 19th - Mac Mini alive again
January 19th - And now it’s the Mac Mini’s turn
January 18th - How to: fix your MacBook screen
January 16th - Edinburgh at Night

2008 (15)

December 31st - Looking back, looking forward
December 28th - Canon EOS 300D
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
November 19th - How to migrate a Parallels virtual machine to VirtualBox
October 27th - Posts 0 – 4 Comments
September 4th - Trying out VirtualBox 2
August 6th - Knock-off Nigel
July 19th - More on the upgrade
June 23rd - Stop… upgrade time!
June 17th - Films that I own on DVD and haven’t yet watched
May 22nd - Been away, going away…
April 8th - Firefox, Performance, and You
March 18th - Fixing a broken iPod
February 29th - Leaping to the Coast
January 14th - Mildly interesting things that I have learned about recently

2007 (19)

December 27th - End of Year Quiz 2007
November 21st - Hospital visit
October 8th - Not quite there
October 2nd - Missing .vxd files
October 1st - Interesting 2 weeks ahead
September 3rd - Bradford good for transport links?
August 26th - openoffice.virginmedia.com
July 15th - Films of 2007
June 27th - Looks like I’ll be banned from Heathrow
June 11th - What would you do with a spare computer?
June 1st - Now look what you’ve made me do…
May 15th - Here’s what you could have bought…
April 5th - Create a Safely Remove Hardware shortcut
April 3rd - Films I am intending to see this year
March 27th - Hari’s new graphics card
March 1st - Graphics card recommendations
February 22nd - Memory upgrade question
February 10th - Lowdown on London
January 14th - 5 Years of Blogging

2006 (5)

December 29th - End of Year Quiz 2006
December 25th - Merry Christmas
November 24th - Memory upgrade
May 26th - Things
January 14th - 4 years

2005 (11)

December 30th - End of year quiz 2005
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
December 5th - 1000 reasons why IE is better than Firefox
November 5th - Screenshots on a PocketPC
July 23rd - Open Tech 2005
July 13th - Good things come to those who wait
May 26th - Post-birthday notes
May 26th - To be 21
February 10th - 1.5 million invites
February 5th - Quickly compress PNG images
January 18th - Picasa 2 Rocks!

2004 (15)

December 28th - End of year quiz 2004
December 25th - Present-ing…
December 2nd - Back from Cardiff
October 23rd - New computer
September 10th - My iPod Mini arrived!
August 31st - Bollocks bollocks bollocks
August 24th - Photographic eye
August 22nd - Why I’m not switching to WordPress
August 17th - Going into print
June 10th - Beach for the stars
May 25th - I’m 20 today!
May 9th - Apple Lossless Encoder
February 29th - Boing
January 14th - My second Blogiversary!
January 13th - Media Player Classic

2003 (15)

December 30th - End of year quiz
December 25th - Merry Christmas!
September 20th - WeeMee
August 28th - John Bramham 1944 – 2003
August 16th - Why Thunderbird is better than OE
July 17th - Holiday write-up: Part II
July 12th - Holiday write-up: Part I
June 25th - Going Away
May 25th - Today is…
May 20th - My first Amazon purchase
May 7th - Paypal Hiatus
May 3rd - Back from Cambridge
May 3rd - Off to Cambridge
April 1st - Only a minor feat
January 14th - Happy Birthday Blog!

2002 (21)

December 25th - Ho ho ho…
November 23rd - Expensive day (but not for me)
October 26th - Noooooooooo….
September 25th - Hello!
September 21st - Settled in
September 14th - Packed up and ready to go
September 3rd - In brief
August 28th - Accommodation Offerings
August 25th - Reading the bumpf
August 17th - Food on the Tyne
August 16th - Releasing the pressure
August 16th - Me = Not going to Manchester
August 15th - The waiting is over
August 14th - It’s getting ever closer
August 12th - Money to burn
May 25th - Officially an adult
April 15th - Back from Brussels
March 21st - Okay, so here’s the explanation
January 30th - Reviewing Newcastle
January 24th - Oh no it isn’t…
January 14th - Welcome to my world