That’s not me wondering how something went wrong on a Volkswagen (insert emission gag here), that’s me wondering how it’s gone from July to being October all of a sudden. September in particular just seems to have evaporated (4 days in Dublin probably didn’t help!). There are so many clichés kicking around about time going …
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More Rubber, More Pie
Once again I’ve had to restore the site from a back up after the planned migration to WordPress didn’t really go so well. Whilst moving the actual content was pretty simple, shifting and managing the images wasn’t going to work as well as it does with the current CMS so I’ll be sticking to that …
A Little Rant, Some Rubber and Spring Dub 2015
After wasting at least an hour of my time this evening, today’s lesson is don’t try and take shortcuts and make sure you back up before making any fundamental changes to your website! Fortunately I did make a back up of the site, otherwise there’s every chance I would have thrown the laptop from my …
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Not For The Faint Hearted
It’s a strange old world, and it seems that despite the sheer numbers of cars they produced, the VW world is actually quite a small place. This evening, for example, I received a private message on the Early Bay forum from a chap who had seen a picture of the bug on a post on …
Someone Got Shiny…..
So here we are in 2014 – and what a difference a year makes! I can’t even remember last January and whilst in some ways that’s quite a scary thought, it’s probably for the best. 12 months on, and the new job is going ok and 10 days before Christmas I moved into a lovely …
Wolfsburg 2002
It’s scary to think that it’s now 11 years ago since Brad and I undertook our first German road trip. It was a trip that would see us drive over 800 miles in our rented Seat Vario, taking in Lübeck, Berlin, Leipzig (and Colditz Castle), Wolfsburg and finally Hamburg. This was in the days before …