http://www.normanralph.com My thoughts online for the world to see Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:07:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A couple of weeks ago Chris, Michelle, George and I went across to Manchester to see Avril Lavigne live on tour. I had a few reservations about the trip when Chris first approached me with the idea. Avril is not everybody's cup of tea and her target audience is definitely ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/06/16/she-said-see-you-later-boy/ When Kieran first mentioned that he had the chance to go and help brew the School of Computing's graduation ale and was looking for some volunteers to go with him I nearly bit his arm off! The chance to head across to the E&S Brewery in Elland to have a ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/06/16/gpale/ Some of you may recognise the tagline I used for my heading for this post... that's right, it can be seen on some of the O2 advertising from a few months ago. They now own my services! Yep, I now work for O2 part-time in their technical support department for the ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/06/11/were-better-connected/ Having picked up an absolute bargain version of the latest offering from Western Digital's MyBook range, the MyBook World Edition - a network attached storage version of the ever popular MyBook external hard disc drives, I thought I would offer up a quick review. It is an excellent piece of kit, ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/05/17/western-digital-mybook-world-edition/ That's right, there are now just twelve days until Chris, George, Michelle and I head over to Manchester to see Avril lavigne's latest tour hit town. I can't wait, not just because it is a well earned chance to let my hair down but alse as it signifies my last ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/05/17/twelve-days-to-avril/ It has been a while since my last post and usually I would offer some flimsy excuse, blaming work or revision or illness. This time, however, I don't really have an excuse except a slight apathy towards blogging recently. I cannot explain why that would be except maybe that with ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/05/12/174/ This post could be a long one if I included everything that happened at Atheist Society's Rationalist Week 2008. A pretty good run down of everything that went wrong for us can be found here so I won't include them in this account. I want to focus on the positive ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/04/26/lets-get-rational/ There has been a couple of incidents of people posting some quite interesting self analysis pieces on Facebook, which can be found here and here (You may have to have a Facebook account or be friends with people in question to view links). My first reaction was to put these posts ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/04/26/self-analysis/ Well. It's over. It worked and we haven't gone too bankrupt... A full post will follow just as soon as I have shaken off this horrendous bout of tonsillitis! http://www.normanralph.com/2008/04/20/rationalist-week-2008-2/ I have spent most of my day finally getting to grips with some of the finer points of my website. I have been getting under the bonnet of cPanel and some of the advanced features that entails. I finally think I have worked everything out and now know enough about ... http://www.normanralph.com/2008/04/08/messing-with-my-blog/