Pete Hindle

‘You have to get well. Being ill is like being attacked, you see? Your body is like a great fortress that has been besieged by invaders. You’ve repelled them, you’ve seen them off, but you have to be good, and marshal your forces and rebuild the walls, refurbish your catapults, clean your cannons, restock your [...]

I’ve been having an annoying day of dealing with letting agencies, and was feeling pretty grumpy on my way home. As I idled up my street, my eye fell on an odd piece of garbage on the street: (I’m just too prudish to have it on my front page, but you can click through for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I decided to go to Mashed08 when I was stuck in my invalid bed by my dislocated knee, unable to really move, and so the offer of travelling to a far-off Alexandra Palace in London for a developer conference sounded really fun. This morning, however, it’s a different story. It’s also a story that starts [...]

I’m in the studio, with Brian, most days now. Above, you can see a picture that reflects our usage of the studio. (Yes, I mean Brian working hard and me goofing off

I’m working on a series of portraits of people playing computer games. There are several problems with this – getting the picture right, getting people to play the game, etc – but I’ve nearly worked out all the kinks. I’m not entirely sure where this goes though, but I’ve drawn up a plan and I [...]

Click here to see the map I’m talking about. Being offically ‘old’ this year, it’s my ambition to ride the route know as the coast to coast before I become thirty. As part of that ambition, myself, Alan, and Brian did a training ride today along some of the excellent cyclepaths in the area. We [...]

My flatmate Alan has been having a rough time with his bicycles recently. After I convinced him that cycling was a good way of getting around, he got his bike stolen. Our friend, Topsy, then lent him a replacement which turned out to be one of Matt Seaton’s bicycle-shaped objects. But no more! I went [...]