Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

My Christmas present to me was, for the second year running, a Master of Malt whisky advent calendar. So this was 24 30ml bottles of whisky for £119.95 so that's 720ml or about a bottle of whisky in total and for that price it seemed pretty reasonable to try so different whiskies.  read more ...

So here's the story of the trip back from visiting my dad in Hampshire this last weekend.  read more ...

I was reading a post on Mastodon today about migrating from Substack and in the linked article Molly said:  read more ...

Ever since my stroke I've struggled with reading books, something which I used to love prior to 3rd February 2002.  read more ...

A friend of mine has been with her email provider since forever but they're now proving unreliable so she wants to move on and was asking for my thoughts so here goes.  read more ...

I'm currently moving our codebase from PHP7 to PHP8. In PHP8 the developers are strongly encouraging users to explicitly declare variables and to move away from implicit casting but here's a doozy where they've arbitrarily changed the way implicit casting is done.  read more ...

As you may well know we have a website called WalkLakes which is about walking in the Lake District and the main income stream from that is that we sell PDF versions of our walks and also GPX route files for use with GPSs and mapping software.  read more ...