http://www.tjwood.co.uk Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:31:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's June 2008 already. The past half-year has been very hectic, and very up-and-down. In breif: I found a new job, and left my old one. The new job starts in two weeks' time. This will shortly involve a relocation from Bristol to Southampton. I got that digital SLR, a Canon EOS 40D. ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2008/06/10/update/ Out with my camera down Gloucester Road and Cheltenham Road, Bristol. It's Sunday, so the shops are mostly shut, which means I can take pictures of the reflections in their windows without drawing too many funny looks. View all photos on Flickr. I'm toying with the idea of getting a ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/10/07/photos-reflections/ My final-year degree project involved developing and implementing an algorithm to detect changes between two OpenDocument Text files. Not perhaps the most exciting project in the world, but one that has genuinely useful applications. Read more about my project, read my dissertation or download the software. http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/07/20/opendocument-comparison/ The graduation ceremony on Friday was fun, but a bit like Christmas: a little too over-commercialised and over-hyped, so that in the end while it was good it wasn't quite as good as it had been made out to be. I got a bit frustrated with the silly costume so took ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/07/16/graduation/ Last week I had my last "holiday" before I start work (i.e. the next time I have a holiday I'll have to book time off and use up a relatively short holiday allowance and so on); a comparatively short three-night break in Paris with my brother. I've been on holiday ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/07/04/paris/ It was a week or so ago that I discovered my degree result. I'd known for a long time (since our course is assessed to a large extent on coursework, and I took several exams in January) that I was on the boundary between a 2:1 and a first class ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/07/03/first-class/ The last couple of weeks of my have been particularly turbulent - not necessarily in a bad way - except that all change is inevitably stressful to some extent. When fate throws a couple of curveballs into the mix, I guess my stress levels rose a little more... Just under two ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/07/01/all-change/ If you're reading this then you're looking at my new website. I started from scratch with a fresh WordPress installation which has been heavily customised to come up with the site you see now. From a casual reader's point of view, most of the old blog posts have now disappeared, but ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/06/12/new-website/ On the MoneySavingExpert.com forums I commented that I don't use Microsoft Office; I use OpenOffice.org for office stuff and Thunderbird and Google Calendar as a replacement for Outlook's email and calendar functionalities respectively. I have a Windows Mobile PDA phone, and I can keep my phone and PC in sync perfectly ... http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/05/30/living-without-outlook/ [coming soon] http://www.tjwood.co.uk/blog/2007/01/01/soon-3/