John McAleely's Home Page

Recently (in the last week): First trip to a supermarket in six months. I shan't hurry back.

My Blog - 'Train of Thought'

Its latest entry, published in January 2010: Goodbye Geocities:

Sometime last year, Yahoo shut down Geocities. So my first web presence is no more.

Things move on!

My professional blog - 'The Director's Chair'

Its latest entry, published in October 2009: One dead PC...:

Today, I am testing my backup strategy.

My morning routine is to wake up with a cup of coffee and a read of the news on my PC. This morning, however, I was the only one that woke up - my PC (a Macbook Pro) failed to join me. This wasn't what I wanted before my coffee had kicked in! It has remained stubbornly unresponsive all day, so I've concluded it is time to replace it. I've had it a few years, and it has travelled well, so I'm not overly disappointed.

I'm confident in my backups (Famous last words perhaps, but I've been through a corrupt hard disk recently that tested them), so I hope the only issue is that sourcing and setting up the replacement I'd like is going to take a few days.

While I can do day-to-day things like email & support on an old PC I have lying around, I can't run the software I need to develop Catwalk Radio. Apologies in advance if you want to get in touch about a bug, and I need to delay a fix until I've got my new computer bought and set up.

Useful information

• How to contact me. (Short version: email john@mcaleely.com)
• A couple of recent pictures of me.
  
• My Photo Album.
• Things I've bookmarked recently:
  • Android is not currently linux
  • The Man in Seat Sixty-One...
  • xkcd - abstraction and multimedia
  • Guide to rewiring internal UK phone wiring
  • Colour Chart for Telephone Wiring over CAT-5 cables (UK / US)
• As a long ignored hobby, I have written all the software you can download on this site.
• Another hobby is building and operating model railways, which I blog about on my 'workbench'.
• I create this website. (That may change if other members of the family join me online).
• There are also other places on the net you can find me.
• How to say my surname.
• A very short autobiography.

The web can be a great source of information you can't find elsewhere, and in that realm, I'd like to recommend "The Fine Art of Being Come Out To - A Straight Person's Guide to Gay Etiquette". Very funny, and true enough. Sadly, the host appears to have gone, so the link is into The Internet Archive.