David Coveney

This is the view from our new office in Liv­er­pool, right now.  Well, a few minutes ago.
I con­sider myself very lucky to have this just behind my desk and it has to rate as the best view of any office I’ve worked in.  You’d think the office would be very expens­ive, but it’s not, thanks to […]

To my great shame, I’ve allowed the cob­webs to build up some­what dur­ing renov­a­tion work.
That’s going to have to stop, because today I just saw some­thing scary.  An entire spider fam­ily, with big mummy spider sit­ting in the middle.  O_0

Found these in the gar­age and have popped them on eBay. Love the old style designs — so simple by today’s stand­ards. Easy to repro­duce too.
Also real­ised just how many bands from this era were called “The” some­thing or other.
How things change…

Some­times… you just have to tidy up, and finally I got around to dump­ing the old pho­tob­log sec­tion of the site and integ­rat­ing it in here.

Over the week­end just gone I made two planned present­a­tions at Word­Camp UK 2009 down in Cardiff. I also threw in a quick 45 minutes of show and tell on the Cari­bou Theme that runs this site and is avail­able for down­load from Spectacula.

Given that I’m selling my motor­bike at the moment as well, you may well won­der if I’ve had some kind of fin­an­cial crisis of my own.
But thank­fully, no.  I just don’t need such a large and fast car any more.  When I was doing a lot of sprint­ing I needed some­thing cap­able of tow­ing a car […]

Sadly, after ten years, I’ve decided that I’ve really failed to make good use of the ZZR600 I treated myself to back in 1999.  It’s the only new motor­bike I’ve ever bought… and I’ll hate get­ting rid of it.
But prac­tic­ally speak­ing, I don’t have much use for it, most of my friends stopped rid­ing years ago, […]

Europeans are con­sidered to be the best edu­cated, most soph­ist­ic­ated people on the planet. They also like diving into bogs, throw­ing toma­toes at one another, and chas­ing cheese.

This is a glor­i­ous song about the Swamp Man Jozin… Ropey Eng­lish sub­titles below. It’s well worth watch­ing through­out. Well, to me it is…