Holiday time!

I've been on leave for a couple of weeks - spending some time with the kids now they're off school. Deb is off for the whole summer - yikes! I was glad to come back to work for a rest.

We were in Menorca for 1 week. We went to the same hotel as last year in Ciutadella. It's an all inclusive and reasonably nice. The old town is wonderful - tiny narrow streets and little squares. Although it was very hot (90F +) we still managed some time to sight see - mostly in the evening when the heat had gone out of the day.

As usual Jessica went hell for leather playing in the pool and had worn herself out after 4 days. She ended up quite grumpy by the end. Alex also got tired, and finished wanting to spend a lot of time in the room.

Still we had a good time and were lucky to miss the airport chaos last week.

Back at work now and likely to be spending quite a bit of time in Accrington. Lucky me.

GVIM and fonts

Tip #914 - Looking for the perfect programming font ? : vim online:

I've been struggling to get my preferred text editor GVIM set up according to my taste for ages. I'd given up basically until I found this note at the VIM homepage. I downloaded the ProggyClean font and installed it as instructed. I then recompiled VIM to use GTK2 (can't believe I was still using GTK1!) and now everything looks cleaner and is much more usable than it was. Woohoo! I'm using it to now to work on my draft for a website. This is planned to be for parents of autistic children on Wirral to share thoughts, interventions, things that have worked for them. It's still a long way from being finished. I'm currently struggling with the mechanism for adding links to content. I'll have to post more detail when I've got time.

See you soon!

Byzantine Studies Page

Byzantium: The Byzantine Studies Page:

Quick note to add this page to my blog. If you're interested in Byzantium, then this is as good a place as I've found on the web. I haven't done nearly as much research through this page as I would have liked. This is the best portal that I've come across - although I'd happily hear of a better if you know one. If nothing else, this site can point you to a translation of the full text of Michael Psellus' Chronographia. I haven't read all of it, but for the period of Byzantine that I'm interested in this is probably one of the best sources there is.