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:
2018:
- Visiting the Same Glacier 22 Years Apart – Seeing Climate Change in Action
- Two Weeks Driving The Circle National Parks
2017:
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