Pete Hindle

If you are an RSS reader of this blog, you’ll not have noticed that I’ve made the site look different. Go take a look.
Cool, huh?
I’m going to keep my site this way for a while, as I feel that it’s a bit of a baffle that stops the less-nerdy and those people who casually browse [...]

I had to buy a new helmet, because my old one broke when I was going round the corner near Heaton Park Road (actually, the junction at Heaton Hall Road and Wandsworth Road) and did a huge swerve to avoid some numpty riding a downhill bike. I mounted the pavement and ended up gently crashing [...]

Over the summer period, I helped develop a one-day course for teaching people Wordpress. Today I ran the first course I’ve done by myself (having had far superior teachers to hide behind in my previous sessions).
They’ve all been graciously hosted by Newcastle’s Polytechnic, and I’ll be posting up links to their excellent websites as soon [...]

So; remember this?

Turns out I almost broke my knee over the summer. I was a few degrees off snapping the bone, but I managed to bounce at the right point and ended up with a very long recuperation period. I’ve got a bunch of physio exercises that I need to do every day, which take [...]

I’ve got some changes in my life coming up ahead, and I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to be focusing my attention. One of the really big thinkers in this area is Merlin Mann, and in a post on his blog he lays out some points for dealing with the constant flow of stuff [...]

Newcastle blogger Alex Bettylou wrote this review of her favourite coffee shop, after I asked her to do something along those lines. I was a little surprised at her choice of venue, but like my girlfriend says, I’m a snobby snob snob snob, so I’ve got some exacting opinions about coffee shops.

It shall serve bastard [...]

I often seem to myself like some sort of internet-appliance-made-flesh. And this month, we have the phone bill to prove it, with a massive overcharge for 47gb of ‘excess internet usage’. Thanks, BT! I love you too!
However, after my last post I managed to climb out of my stained office chair, throw on some clothes, [...]

I’m terrible at getting things done. I’ve even read the book, but I still find it hard to get things finished; perhaps it’s the nearly persuasive presence of the Internet in my life. I have found myself wishing that I had somewhere to go that didn’t have the internet, so I could get more work [...]

Happily minding somebody else’s business, I was filling a bug report on Processing when my laptop finally up’d and died. I’ve been expecting it for a while though, but I thought I had a while left yet.
I’d recommend reading the bug report for a clearer picture on what happened.

I woke up this morning with very little on my agenda, and decided to take myself to the local Sainsburys – the posh end of the supermarket spectrum. It’s about twenty minutes walk from here, and that’s a good stretch for my leg (which is healing nicely, thanks).
When I got to the supermarket there was [...]