It’s all here, every post I’ve ever made on John’s Adventures. Warning: some of the content may entertain you, make you laugh, make you cry or make you furrow your brow trying to work out what the hell I was on about!

2021:

• You Play Football Long Enough, You End Up Being The Old Guy In The Team
• A Road Trip around North West Scotland

2018:

• Visiting the Same Glacier 22 Years Apart – Seeing Climate Change in Action
• Two Weeks Driving The Circle National Parks

2017:

• Saying Goodbye To Facebook

2015:

• Earin Wireless Earphones – Well Worth The Wait
• On Life In The Mac App Store
• So I Guess I’m A Vegetarian Then
• A Few Days Snowboarding In Chamonix

2014:

• John’s Background Switcher for Mac Goes Live!
• My 40th Birthday Photo Casebook
• The Tour De France Comes To Yorskhire
• A Few Days Snowboarding In Borovets, Bulgaria
• How To Show The xkcd “Now” Live World Clock On Your Desktop
• How I Learned To Ship Software (And Leave My Ego At The Door)

2013:

• The Apollo Moon Missions and Me
• John’s Background Switcher Adds Dropbox Support, A New Photo Collage Option and More Languages
• A Week In Cornwall In November
• My Birthday Baking Photo Casebook
• Cornwall July 2013
• John’s Luggage Advice For Non-Flying Business Trips To London (And Other Cities)
• John’s Background Switcher Adds Support For 500px, Last.fm, Pixabay and Tumblr Blogs
• A Week In Lanzarote
• The British Winter Tyre Conundrum
• 7 Things I Love About Having A Dog

2012:

• Pictures From A Few Weeks In London
• Put Instagram Photos On Your Desktop Wallpaper With John’s Background Switcher
• The Perils And Pleasures Of An Inquisitive Mind
• A Weekend Camping Near Aysgarth, North Yorkshire
• Cornwall 2012
• Ten Years Of Incoherent Ramblings (Blogging)
• Moving My Site From WordPress.org To WordPress.com
• So Now I’ve Got A Dog!
• Snowboarding, Morzine, 2012
• 17 Thoughts on Software, Humans and Facebook

2011:

• The Tricky Decision Of What To Wear To Your Work Christmas Party
• Sunshine In North Wales
• St Andrews, A Trip Down Memory Lane
• Scafell Pike With Friends
• Belated Birthday Cakes Photo Casebook
• An Experience Only Counts When It’s Shared
• A Rest Is As Good As A Rest
• John’s Background Switcher 4.4 Released!
• A Long Weekend In North East Fife
• Tsunami
• Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals
• Why Depressing Music Cheers Me Up
• Reminiscing About Cold Winters Ain’t What It Used To Be

2010:

• 2010 Through The Eye Of A Lens
• The Very Serious Pursuit Of A Cup Of Coffee
• So It Turns Out The Best Small Car That Isn’t A Fiat 500 Is A Fiat 500
• A New Site Design For Autumn
• Welcome To The Cloud John, Enjoy The View
• John Does Yoga
• Growing Our Own Veg – Year Two
• The Return Of The Return To The Isle Of Arran
• My Kind Of Hand Luggage
• John’s Background Switcher 4.2 Released!
• It’s Not About The Dog
• Why I Stare At The Sky
• FogCreek Kiln, Distributed Version Control Systems And Me
• The Benefits Of Physio
• Hogmanay at The Clachaig, Glencoe, Scotland

2009:

• John’s Guide To Travelling With Hand Luggage Only
• A Weekend In Lyon And The Fete des Lumieres
• My Thoughts On The Microsoft PDC 2009
• A Week In St. Ives, Cornwall
• John’s Background Switcher 4 Goes Live!
• A Long Weekend In Wales
• Rock Star To Marine Corps In One Minute
• The Cheesecake Comes Full Circle
• My Annual Camping Trip To Pendleton
• Dinner At Gordon Ramsay’s Maze Restaurant In London
• Our First Proper Harvest
• A Road Trip From Skye To Torridon To Aviemore
• A Couple Of Days In Plockton
• 10 Years In Yorkshire
• The Best Cafe In Skipton
• Some Flowers And Veg Growing In My Garden
• Something I Should Have Said Long Ago
• Bluebell Heaven
• Beating Those Crafty Television Advertisers
• Gardening Milestone – Our Veg Starts To Grow
• Loughrigg Fell, The Lake District
• John Joins The Rotary Club
• Ten Observations That Tell Me I’m Not As Young As I Used To Be
• The First Step To Growing Our Own Veg
• My First Mac OS Upgrade
• Jim’s Stag Do
• I Guess I’m Not Going To Scotland On Rails After All
• The State Of The British Economy
• Windows 7 And The Future Of John’s Background Switcher
• Life On Mars (Better Late Than Never)
• Oh Dear, I’m Hooked On Mariokart Wii!

2008:

• Something Cool You May Not Know About Water
• WordPress Reaches 2.7 And Open Source Software
• From Joe Average To Premiership Football In One Year?
• The Mystery Of Our Plant Pot Vandal Solved
• Night Photography, Flash Guns And Too Much Of Me!
• The Days When The River Tay Used To Freeze Over
• A BlackBerry That Takes Over Your Life In A Good Way
• LOLCats, DeviantArt, Zooomr, ipernity, photobucket And More On Your Desktop With John’s Background Switcher 3.6
• Some Photos Of My Brother And I From The 70′s
• My Start-Up’s Been Acquired!
• Creating Photo Gallery Overviews in WordPress
• John’s Dead Man Switch
• The World Is Definitely Moving On
• Ben Nevis Weekend
• Passengers That Ship In The Night
• Blind Faith by Ben Elton
• Mamma Mia – The Movie
• Karaoke Nights
• SnagIt 9 Or How To Take A Step Backwards In Usability
• Two Days In New York
• The Contents Of My Wallet
• How To Make A Surprise Really Surprising
• John’s Image Converter 2
• Ploughing My Way Through The Discworld Books
• John’s Background Switcher 3.5 Released!
• A Shiny New Site Design
• You Can Take Your iPod Touch v2.0 Software And Shovel It
• They’re Much Sweeter When You Grow Your Own
• Stephen Fry’s Thoughts On The BBC
• My Glastonbury Festival Memories
• The March Of Time
• John’s Background Switcher 3.4 Released!
• Return To The Isle Of Arran
• A Flying Visit To Abu Dhabi
• The South Pennine Challenge 2008
• Bravery In Adversity
• A Chair Makes A Hell Of A Difference
• Ray Mears vs Bear Grylls – The Showdown
• Ducklings At Home
• Red Screes, The Lake District
• It Must Be Spring Time…
• A Hike Up Pen-Y-Ghent
• Snippets And Photo Albums In WordPress 2.5
• The Cheeky Rascals Round Scotland Tour
• Scaleber Force And Sunshine
• Snapshot Scrapbook Postcard Mode
• Pulitzer Feature Photography Winner 2008
• The Dating Game And How It’s Easy If You’re Not Playing It
• How To Deal With An Ankle Strain Or Mild Sprain
• Photography Tips 10 – Always Keep Your Eyes Open
• April Fools Day And Flying Penguins
• Second Comes Right After First
• My 5 Minutes Of Geek Fame
• Getting Up To Speed
• I’ve Finally Gotten Into Podcasting
• Coffee, Apple And Subliminal Messages
• Some Thoughts For Mother’s Day
• The Trouble With Trifles
• As Fast As My Imagination Isn’t Fast Enough Damnit!
• This Upstart Joins A Start-Up
• Still Wearing A Hat Syndrome
• The Difficulties Of Finding Good People
• How Do You Get A Swan Out Of Your Garden?
• Once They’ve Got Your Name They’ve Got You
• Photography And The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
• John’s Background Switcher 3.3 Released
• Yorkshire Flooding Hits Top Scottish Blogger!
• You Can Take Your Internet Usage Policy And Shove It!
• Yorkshire Folk Do Like Their Food
• Finally, A Device From The World Of Tomorrow!
• Happy New Year 2008!

2007:

• Awaiting Photographic Inspiration
• Something You Should Know About My Black Leather Gentleman’s Gloves
• A Christmas At Home For A Change
• The Science Of The Little Things (And The Big Things Too)
• Thank You Sparkie
• Something Tasty You Probably Don’t Know About Me
• John’s Background Switcher 3.2 Goes Live!
• Why I Love Groundhog Day
• A Snapshot Scrapbook Of Your Photos
• Commercial Breakdown – The Sony Bravia Ads
• Local Newspaper’s Bargain Of The Century
• Losing My Mother
• Another Satisfied WordPress User
• Caffeine Overload Equals Bad
• Things Don’t Always Turn Out As You Expect
• Time To Put Down Some Roots
• Stick With Movable Type Or Twist To WordPress?
• Selling Stuff The John Conners Way
• My All-Or-Nothing Approach To Reading Books
• Adios Vista, Hola XP Again
• The Lord Of The Rings Stage Show
• FogBugz 6 Goes Live
• The Isle Of Arran 2007
• A Week On A Mini Scotland
• While the cat’s away…
• Some People Deserve What They Get
• Mind Over Matter
• Birthday Cakes Photo Casebook
• My Moo Stickers Have Arrived!
• The Yorkshire 3 Peaks, A Nice Way To Spend Friday
• Harry Potter One More Time
• Worst. Summer. Ever.
• A Bike Ride She’ll Never Forget
• I Thought Egg Yolks Were Yellow
• Skipton Sheep Day 2007
• Waking Up To Quacking
• Hair Story – The Next Chapter
• John’s Duck Breeding Factory
• Le Weekend En Lyon, France
• Talk About Getting Your Priorities Right
• Google Toolbar Reckons I Need English Lessons
• A Guinea Pig Tug-O-War
• Bagging The Third of The Three Peaks
• A Comedy Caption Competition
• The Lost Art Of The Hand-Written Word
• An Evening With Michael Vaughan
• My Very Own Digital Signature
• The Yorkshire East Coast
• The Ultimate Left-Handed Pen
• Photography Tips 9 – Black and White or Colour?
• New Month, New Life
• The London Eye
• Mamma Mia – The Ultimate Abba Tribute
• Our Duck Returns!
• John’s Background Switcher 3 Released
• This Throw-Away Society In Which We Live
• Goodbye Windows, Hello Mac!
• Renewing Our Wedding Vows
• Something I Thought I’d Never See
• Another Season In The Top Flight
• A Glut Of Good Music
• So Much For Being Anonymous
• The Case For The Mac
• My Shuffling iPod Experiment
• Photography Tips 8 – Everybody Loves Waterfalls
• The FOWA Workshops, Day Three
• My Thoughts On The Future Of Web Apps, London 2007
• Off To The Future Of Web Apps
• Vista Hates My Scanner or My Scanner Hates Vista
• The Kind Of Cloning That Doesn’t Help Anybody
• Photography Tips 7 – Getting Your Exposure Right
• Welcome To The World Vista
• Worth The Effort
• A Photo Shoot Around Malham
• The Slow Fade To Grey
• A Weekend In Edinburgh
• So John Likes Cricket Now Does He?
• Australia 2006
• My Australia Trip 6 – The Photos
• My Australia Trip 5 – Hong Kong
• My Australia Trip 4 – The Blue Mountains
• My Australia Trip 3 – The Bush
• My Australia Trip 2 – Port Stephens

2006:

• My Australia Trip 1 – Sydney
• Just About Over The Jet Lag
• I’m Off Down Under For A Bit
• Save The Planet From Us
• The Power Of Love
• I Also Convert Images
• The Dangers Of Chocolate
• How to default to Search Companion with Windows Desktop Search 3
• I Don’t Need No Fancy HDR! Okay, Why Not?!
• It Isn’t Easy Being A Teenager These Days
• Bang Bang Yawn
• Brother In Another Country
• My Life Without (The) Sky
• Add To Contacts
• Tournament Players
• Some Thoughts on Windows Vista
• We Haven’t Changed A Bit
• Roll On Dark Nights
• Marriage Advice From The 60s: The Engagement
• TinyMCE and Movable Type In Perfect Harmony
• They’ll Be Putting Chips In Our Heads Next
• Photography Tips 6 – Change Your Angles
• Photography Tips 5 – All The Gear, Some Idea
• Robin Hood’s Bay For The Weekend
• Photography Tips 4 – How To Hold A Camera
• Photography Tips 3 – ND Grad Filters
• Photography Tips 2 – The Rule Of Thirds
• Photography Tips 1 – Leading Lines
• My Wedding Photos
• The Happy Couple
• John’s Background Switcher 2.5 Released
• More Architecture Than You Can Shake A Stick At
• A Celebrity For A Day
• My Honeymoon
• It’s Raining, But I’m Smiling
• A Trip Back Home And Google Spreadsheets
• Last Minute Nightmares
• Aren’t Mosaics Lovely?
• It Just Never Makes Things Any Better
• Warm Weather, Southern Softies And Me
• Snow Patrol At Leeds Millenium Square
• Need A Ruler? Got A Printer? Sorted!
• Life Is Just An Extension Of Tetris
• Believe In The Sock Monster, He Believes In You
• The Certainty Of Chance
• An Intelligent Copy Constructor In C# Using Reflection
• Not This Time England
• 4 Weeks To Go
• Shows What I Know About Photography
• Running Socks – What A Great Idea
• John Likes ABBA – 20 Years Too Late!
• Come On Engerlund!
• About As Unhelpful As Ian’s Unhelpful Error Message
• A Second Look
• You Know It’s A Good Summer’s Day When…
• Nice Day For A Barbecue
• A Night Off Line
• Amusing Error Message Of The Day
• 13′s The Charm
• The Miracle of New Life Under My Window
• First Thoughts On Office 2007
• It Was Bound To Happen Eventually
• Return Of The Garden Bird
• Hair Story
• Not The Beautiful Game
• Like Kids Of Our Own
• The Price Of Petrol
• The Ingleton Waterfall Walk
• My Weekend On The East Coast
• East Coast Photography Weekend
• Don’t Be A Drone, Destroy All Sat-Nav!
• Welcome Back John (no, the other John)
• The Things You Do For Art
• The Fruits Of My Labour
• April Fool’s Day Memories
• Cold Nights On The Moors
• Home By The Sea
• A Curry Problem
• The Company Photographer
• Wedding Weekend
• Traffic Spike
• Exactly What It Said On The Tin
• I Should Have Been A Singer In A Band
• Mirror Mirror On The Wall…
• Translation Please?
• Why Does My ASP.NET Cache Keep Clearing Itself?
• The Learning Process Begins
• A Weekend At Home
• Belle and Sebastian At Long Last!
• New Camera High
• Finally, I Made It To Malham Cove!
• John’s Background Switcher 2.1 Released
• As Easy As Falling Off A Bike
• My Top Albums Of 2005
• Multiple Monitors and Wallpapers
• What Is It With Wednesdays?
• Happy New Year!

2005:

• John’s Christmas Bounty
• A Weekend Without The Internet
• No Wonder People Complain About Slow PCs
• John’s Background Switcher 2 For Flickr
• Another Certificate For The Wall
• Being Paid To Learn? Surely Not…
• No More BMW
• The Sign Of A Good Wedding
• My Installer Fixation And NSIS
• Return To Form
• So Much For Eating My Bread Crusts
• John’s Background Switcher 1.3 Released
• Here’s A Sight I Don’t See Often
• Twisted Dreams
• This Happens To Me All The Time
• Winter Must Be Coming
• The End Of My Bavarian Affair
• No Room For Mistakes
• Guillemots – The Next Big Thing?
• More Powerful Than Love And Death
• John’s Image Converter
• Punch Buggy Grey!
• New Job High
• Does This Tree Look Dead To You?
• What That Says About You
• Weddings and Misunderstandings
• Working From Home
• Throw It All Away And Start Again
• A View Of Things To Come
• One Man’s Heaven…
• I Told You I Might Be Back
• Now Here Is Nowhere

2004:

• I Am A Reverse Vampire
• Getting There
• Nice Days Do Happen
• My California Road Trip
• John’s Law Number 2
• John’s Law Number 1
• A Quiet Month
• The Spirit of Adventure
• Bitten By The King
• Bank Error In Your Favour
• Worst Injury So Far
• A Flock Of Seagals
• The Virtual Vegetarian
• Young Gun Goes For It
• Tim Booth Was Right
• PMT For Two
• An Un-Sympathetic Injury
• Back To School
• Guinea’s Photo Casebook
• A Few Days Off
• Top Phone Tips
• Full Product Lifecycle
• Two Years And Still Running
• Learning My Lines
• The Soundtrack To My 20s
• The Start Of Real Winter
• Idle Hands And All That
• Week One
• New Zealand 2003
• The Land of Lord Of The Rings

2003:

• Never Turn Right
• Swings and Roundabouts
• A Cold Afternoon In The Dales
• Night Biking Extreme!
• Only In England
• Hunting Chris Ryan
• That Starbucks Feeling
• Luxury Weekend For Two At Wood Hall
• The Kind of Thing That Lasts a Lifetime
• Autumnal Wanderings
• Whatever Happened To Gary Douglas?
• The Other 911
• New Shoe High
• A Scientriffic Experiment
• Everything Must Go
• Just Keep On Moving
• About Bloody Time Three
• A Day By The Sea
• John Is Human After All
• A Snap Happy Chappy
• A Message From Our Sponsors
• About Bloody Time
• Some Rest And Relaxation
• Flawless Victory
• A Change Of Plan
• Too Much Of A Good Thing
• It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This
• Another Year, Another Milestone
• Fixed At Last
• Now That’s What I Call Fun
• You Can Call Me Roy
• A Few Problems
• A Highland Adventure
• A Short Scottish History Lesson
• A John Conners Nice Day
• Two Weeks Is Not Enough
• John Is Going Dark
• The Holiday Checklist Bonanza
• The Difference Between Me And Her
• Something For The Weekend?
• A Year Adrift
• Nothing Worth Doing Is Easy
• My Disappointment Defence Mechanism
• The National Hell Service
• Who Wrote These Stupid Rules Anyway?
• Crashing Into The Wall
• The Moment Of Infection
• Have You Read These Books?
• Top Marques For Service
• Hollywood Dreams
• An Ode To Ibuprofen
• Bye Bye Humbug
• Job Done
• Where Is The Way Out?
• The War In Iraq So Far
• The First Sunny Day Of The Year
• A Lot Can Change In 5 Days
• Impulsive Friday
• The Best Exercise Ever
• Enter The Floyd
• The Life Of Nine To Five
• Some Scottish Weather Memories
• The Beginner’s Guide To Night Mountain Biking
• Eeh, Me Legs Are Knackered
• Update Your Bookmarks
• The Things I Learned In School
• A Weekend Break In London
• The Atlantic Divide
• The Great Gun Debate
• James Bond Has It Easy
• A Good Night’s Sleep
• Customer Service Sucks!
• Help, I’m Addicted!
• A Christmas Tale

2002:

• Joy to The World, My Laptop Is Dead
• A Crisp Winter Morning
• What Happened To The Glory Days?
• The Story So Far
• Tram Track Tastic
• Saturday Night At The Casino
• The Way Christmas Should Be
• Flossed In Paradise
• See, I Can Be Selfish Too!
• Fight, Fright, Flight or Delight
• Harry Potter Rules!
• Ten Reasons I Don’t Vote
• My Old History Teacher
• Save Me From Shiny Kit Syndrome
• Who Says I’ve Got No Culture?
• Signs
• A Weekend On The Road
• A Breath Of Fresh Air
• All Change At The Next Stop
• The Wind-Down To Winter
• The Story Of How We Met
• The Great Competition
• The Murder House vs The Conners
• Some Thoughts On Creativity
• The Dawn Of A New Era
• A Holiday I Won’t Forget
• A Holiday That Will Need A Holiday
• I Can See Clearly Now
• A Day Of Rest And Filming
• A Year Ago Today
• The Death Of Scottish Football
• Brother From Another Country
• Back From The Big Beyond
• John Has Left The Building
• Sensory Overload
• Why I Shouldn’t Host A Gardening Show
• Thanks For The Memory
• To Sleep Perchance To Dream
• The Pain, The Pain Of It All!
• Happy Birthday To Me
• Yorkshire Summer Floods
• New Month, New Attitude
• The Price Of Peace
• Selective Hearing Explained
• What’s In A Name?
• Learning To Fail
• Staying Out Of The Rain Clouds
• A Formula One Weekend
• The Blunder Years
• A Song Sings A Thousand Memories
• Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
• Somebody Dropped The Sword Of Damocles
• It’s That Time Of Year Again
• England Lose To Brazil
• Are We Small Or What?
• A Stranger In A Strange Land
• Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
• My Life Will Never Be The Same
• Just Call Me Mr. Boring
• New Kit, New Enthusiasm
• Cold Plus Wet Doesn’t Equal Miserable
• Evil In A Box
• The Joys Of Gardening?
• Farewell To Old Friends
• The Virtues Of Anonymity
• Laziness By Decree
• Rainy Days, Calling To You
• Shopping Until I Wish I Would Drop
• The Sense Of Humour Has Left The Building
• The Tim Henman Fan Club
• The Road To Recovery
• Mount Skipton: Mission Accomplished
• Where Does All The Time Go?
• Saturdays Of Wonder
• A Thursday In The Life Of
• British Summer Time
• Bank Holiday Highs
• A Picture Paints A Thousand Words
• My New Bowling Ball
• Back To Broughton Baby
• My List Of Things To Do
• Okay, I Admit It, I Like London After All
• Sunday Afternoon In The Saddle In The Rain
• A Big Time In The Big Smoke
• Snowboarding In Val D’Isere, 2002
• Guinea Pigs – The Ultimate Pet
• My Spiritual Home Of Yorkshire