Archive for April, 2007

Alcohol becoming socially unacceptable?

Following a news article on BBC web site about a charity lobbying to prevent children drinking at home, I actually got one of my comments published on Page 35 of the Have Your Say section. My comment is that I am worried that now the moral brigade have been succesful making smoking in public places [...]

April 29, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· 4 Comments
Posted in: Alcohol, Society

Oxford Brewing Group – Taste and Swap day

The Oxford Brewing group is holding a Taste & Swap day at Kennington Village Hall on 2nd June 2007. An invitation is open to any craft brewers who can make it to Oxford that day.

April 26, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· No Comments
Posted in: Craft Brewing

So simple a child can program it

There was a discussion panel session entitled So simple a child can program it, on a mobile phone at ACCU 2007. We had a similar side discussion at a meeting of the Oxtremists and there was an article at O’Reilly called Where’s the 8 bit revolution for my kids? This is a few notes about [...]

April 20, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· No Comments
Posted in: Software Development

Thought it was time to get a blog

Everybody else seems to have one, so now do I…. This will cover several subjects: Software Development – I run a software development company, developing software in C++, Java and whatever else is useful to solve a problem. We are focussing on small games devices at the moment, eg. mobile phones and custom made handheld [...]

April 15, 2007 В· The Abingdon Drinker В· One Comment
Posted in: Uncategorized