Freakcity

Also got to explore his basement. Perfect setting for some photos too. Really annoyed I didn’t think to bring my camera ...

I have a routine. Gym, work, cycling, coding, photography. Loose enough I don’t feel trapped by it, but str...

Just the day before I’d made arrangements with work to spend some time in London. Dee was ill, doctors had given her 6 months to a year to live. I’d arranged to visit next week, spend some time with her…

She’d been ill for a while...be...

Worked out how to get Node working with systemd in fedora.

Worked out how to get my Node site to build using make with Jenkins

Set up continuous delivery for my photography website.

I can now push ...

Working too much.

Not enough time to blog properly, but due to the previous two factors not really got much to blog about anyway. The world turns, snow becomes sun, cold becomes warm, we hurtle through space at 17k mi...

Plodding along in Berlin, going a bit stir crazy as all I seem to do these days is work and sleep. Thinkin...

A few days after switching the entire site to MySQL, I discover that there’s performance issues. Digging into it more, I discover that actually, IIS processes are crashing, consuming 100% of the available CPU and that’s making everything slow and crashy,

Then I dig i...

So if you’re a SoundCloud type, add me on soundcloud.com/scottbert/

If ...

One of the things about getting older is that you accumulate baggage, both physically and mentally. This happens from birth to death without slowing down, without being noticed. It’s easy as you grow up to pretend to be an adult, indeed that’s how people learn to be an adult. What’s harder, is ...

They were the first band I followed, formed to raise funds for our youth group by playing covers in local pubs. They soon changed their name and stopped playing covers.

I didn’t really know them, but I learnt to play some of ...

If only he could’ve seen the outpouring of love on his facebook wall, perhaps he’d not have done it.

Sometimes we leave it until someone’s gone before we tell them how we feel. Perhaps if we didn’t wait so long...

Finding yourself in a different country is interesting to say the least. There’s a whole new city to explore. New people to meet. Mistakes to make. Maps to learn. Transport to work out. In our case, we moved into a completely unfurnished apartment, so there was bed, sofa, blinds, kitchen stuff,...

Some of you may know that I’ve been living and working on secondment in Berlin as of January this year. It’s pretty awesome here and I like it a lot, so I/we have decided to move here properly. 

We’re going to get rid of the flat in London when the lease ...

Well, more specifically, the Electoral Services Office.

I am very glad we have this amazing postal voting system that lets me have my say in how my city is run tomorrow. I am less glad, however, when you send me my postal vote on ...

That is all.

That is all.

I used to be a proper photographer, but then Instagram arrived. Now I point, oversaturate, add frame and submit like every other person on the planet. Cmon, it’s not even real photography. Grawrgh.

I have a perfectly decent SLR. I have a perfect...

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A pretty misleading article in the Grauniad’s “Comment is Free” section.

Kinda annoyed me. It should state ON THE ARTICLE that the author “Andrew Boff” isn’t a journalist, he’s ...

Fucking amateur economists. “The Euro was flawed from the start”, no, the fact we had to bail entire countries out because PRIVATE FUCKING CAPITAL took all of the money is the flaw here. And our government want to continue the same economic fuck up, the one started by Thatcher and Reagan with t...

Full Frontal was excellent yesterday, learnt a whole bunch of stuff and was validated on my approach to MVC Javascript by a man getting up and giving a talk on it that described almost exactly how I’ve been coding for the last two years. Was nice...

The chicks got mixed up.

Rather than sort it out, each mother drowned the other’s chick, taking them by the neck in their beaks and pushing them underwater.

I woke up.