I note that, “according to the BBC”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6921702.stm. bq. The British Army’s emergency operation in Northern Ireland comes to an end at midnight on Tuesday [tonight] after 38 years. Operation Banner, as it was called, was the longest in the Army’s history. No doubt, there will be much rejoicing in many quarters and the end of …
I have some fun working out my “genealogy”:http://www.petersmith.org/ged/index.php. So far, I’m back to about 1812. But after that date it gets a little tricky. The problem is that census data pre-1841 isn’t very helpful (genealogically speaking), and prior to 1937 the birth, marriages, deaths indexes weren’t centralised. So, if I’m to go any further back, …
I’ve spent a happy few hours this weekend putting together a website for “Team Cru Vin Dogs”:http://www.teamcruvindogs.com/. It’s been a nice distraction from writing (my PhD thesis). The design work was done by Grant Hunter at “Hunter Creative”:http://www.huntercreative.co.nz/, and I assembled the plumbing using: * “Drupal”:http://www.drupal.org as the CMS * “A2”:http://www.a2hosting.com as the hosting company …