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Last night Dr B. found out his credit card had been used for a value of around five thousand pounds.
He was quickly on the phone with Nationwide who were most helpful and will refund the lot, so no worries really, but he now swears he's never going to use cards in a restaurant again (you [...]

I recently found out that Facebook should not be used as a platform for work-related interaction.
I was at the gym on my lunch break when a colleague's status update came through on my mobile:
(Name) is wondering why oh why drivers choose the last possible moment to take the J6…
I thought 'computer drivers' (we were at [...]

I have spent the few spare moments during the last twelve days reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Those were the very moments I would have blogged instead, which explains the lack of posts lately.
I have enjoyed immensely the book itself. I have just put it down and am still feeling a bit emotional [...]

This morning Dr B. bought the adult edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
And I have just come back from Tesco across the road with the children's edition - so we don't mix them up, I claimed, but really it's because it matches the previous six in the box in the back of a [...]

So now not only can I squeeze into my skinny jeans again (well, I say skinny, the label says 32W), but I can even go out in public in them (I wore them a couple of weeks ago to a garden party spent inside due to the rain). The trick is not sitting down.
I have [...]

I used to log on to Windows Money every single day (sometimes twice a day) to download transactions from my bank accounts and log all my cash expenses.
Clearly, that was madness. I have kept a log of everything I spend every day ever since I can remember, first on paper notebooks, then on Filofax printed [...]

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What were you doing on 07/07/07 at 07:07:07?, originally uploaded by bitful.

On 07/07/07 at 07:07:07 I was in the middle of trying to figure out an error thrown by a PHP script, and I [...]

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My waking-up goodies drawer, originally uploaded by bitful.

I have not had a Saturday morning lie-in since, well, I've never had one, and now that I need one I've prepared a drawer full of goodies [...]

I have installed a plugin that displays links to archived similar entries below each post. The past is coming back and biting my behind. Not sure I like it.
For a while now I have been wanting to display some links to similar posts below each entry. I had explored a few possibilities but I wanted [...]

I've been working in the same team for fifteen months now and I have not told anyone I am gay.
Well, nobody asked - and I love and cherish the UK and the people who inhabit this glorious land because they mostly mind their bloody business, one of the qualities that earn my highest esteem and [...]

I have mentioned a while back that my taste in music has recently shifted towards a harder sound and darker beats.
After three or four months where I trampled all over my candyfloss pop past and listened day and night to screeching and wailing exclusively, things are a bit more moderate now. Just as well, as [...]

No biggie, I hear you say.
Oh yes biggie, big biggie instead. It was perhaps the first time as far as memory goes, and if you think we've known each other for a little over forty hears now, it's a shame. We just don't do feelings too well in our family.
My mother recently spent three weeks [...]

I have been exchanging emails with Dr B.'s brother, who is into his third month since stopping smoking, and only a few weeks since giving up nicotine patches.
He has been having dreams about smoking and I told him I used to have them all the time too when I stopped over four years ago. He [...]

What a lovely break. I approached it somewhat tentatively, because my last beach holiday was not very relaxing (big group of people, lots of partying, living mainly during the night - nothing I couldn't do in London). But I kept an open mind and went with the flow.
The flow consisted of a perfect mix of [...]

I like to record data and then I like to look at data. Sometimes I like to share data.
Just like I like to write down every single penny I spend, I also enjoy making a note of every single calorie that passes my lips. I then weigh myself every morning and in order to [...]

Last Thursday night I was about to start dinner when a sudden urge to go running came upon me.
Alright, it's just that after gaining a considerable advantage over Dr B. by running every other day last week in Italy, I would have hated for him to sprint and win our 'Who runs 100km first' [...]

I've been in Italy for the last few days to see my mother who is in hospital.
It is very hard to say whether it is serious or not; she had been losing a considerable amount of blood through her faeces and was taken into hospital to receive some blood transfusions and to undergo a series [...]

Yesterday I entered my first race and completed a 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) run.
It is probably not a big deal for most, but I consider it a great achievement, because as recently as last January I could not run for more than ten minutes without being out of breath.
I trained regularly, went for lunchtime runs [...]

Dr B.'s Hilton points (collected throughout one and a half years of working away from London and being put up in one of the chain's branches for three to four nights a week) were going to expire at the end of April, so he took me and his parents to Paris and used them to [...]

Dr B.'s parents are coming down from Staffordshire tonight, then tomorrow morning the four of us are hopping onto the Eurostar and spending the next forty-eight hours in Paris.
He has organised this as a present for his dad's birthday, and getting his mother to come along took some planning and presentation skills, as in the [...]

Recent comments on my pictures on Flicker left by Chig have made me realise that things are not always the way they look.
First of all, I so wish my phone (an HTC Hurricane, which is usually a particularly smart smartphone) geo-tagged pictures. Alas, although yes, it does have sat nav software, I would need to [...]

The purchase of an iPod nano (three days before the announcement that the hundredth million iPod had been sold - yes, that was me) changed somehow my Last.fm profile, so much so that it prompted David to exhult
PopBitful is Back! Back! Back!
when he saw the string of madonnabritneygwengirlsaloud in my 'recently played' list a few [...]

I have installed Show Top Commentators, a quick and easy WordPress plugin to show who left the most comments on this website. You can see the top five from the past 365 days under 'Top commentators'.
The current top five is:

David (16)
mike (10)
Dr B (9)
Justin (7)
Chig (5)

At last, something where Dr B. is not number one [...]

While preparing to install the Add-Meta-Tags WordPress Plugin, a quick way to automatically generate XHTML meta tags with existing post categories and blog tagline, for the first time I feel the need to put something in the Options > Tagline field.
I never felt the need for a tagline before. To be honest, I probably never [...]

Yesterday I wore a shirt to work.
It had short sleeves, and it was unbuttoned so I would not feel constricted, and of course, the sleeves were wrinkled, the collar was curling up, and the yoke looked like an ox had slept in it, because to me, you know, an iron is just that annoying thing [...]

I have this very bad habit of falling asleep on the couch and spending most of the night there most nights (and even all night long at weekends, when it does not matter if I am knackered the day after).
The explanation is very simple: all I want is about fifteen minutes in front of the [...]

We are leaving tonight to spend the weekend at Dr B.'s parents in rural Staffordshire. His mother is going for a hot air balloon birthday present flight tomorrow (weather permitting) and we thought we'd go and watch her take off. It will also be nice to go away for a couple of days: I need [...]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sleep with me?

You can now spare yourself the trouble of buying me a drink and wooing me, and jump directly to the Bitful Bedtime Experience, by downloading the short movie Dr Bitful's Experiment ("See him sleep! Hear him snore! Watch Dr B. trying to make [...]