I’ve just released the latest iteration of my “professional” site, stevenwilkin.com.
There’s the possibility the designers I’m working with will think my design-fu is weak, but the site badly needed something as it has been barely put to use in the years I’ve owned it.
I don’t know how the Steven Wilkin web experience will evolve but [...]
There have been times in my life when my job description could well have been best described as being a professional coffee drinker. These days however I’ve found gainful employment but continue to consume vast quantities of the stuff and even use coffee nomenclature to name my new *nix boxes.
During a caffeine-fueled session with my [...]
It seems like I've survived another year
I've just finished processing my email and am reflecting on the goals I wrote this time last year:
continue bodybuilding
write more code
blog more
increase Linux skills
get a “real” job
Here's the outcome:
I put a lot of effort into training and nutrition last year and found that when vanity is my [...]
I picked up a new bicycle earlier today after probably a decade of not as much as even getting on one. I’m suprised how quickly it all came back to me, almost instantaneously in fact.
It only took me 10 minutes to get home from Sainsbury’s with a pannier bag stuffed full with groceries. My life [...]
Yesterday, the project I’m working on turned into a full-time gig. I start Monday as a full-time developer and can finally sign-off after nearly 6 years on state benefits. It works if you work it!
It’s now a week into the new year and to heighten my perception of the passage of time my birthday fell on the 3rd, making me a ripe 27. I’ve been thinking long and hard about what I want to achieve this year and the essence of my ruminations was progression: my goal is to [...]
I had the joy of going for a dental checkup this morning and I must admit I was a tad on edge, but thankfully I got the all clear and there will no repeats of the root canal work I had done earlier in the year …and I managed to get a quick snap of [...]
Over the past couple of months I’ve been working at removing machine weights from my training regime but up until last week I was using machines exclusively to train my legs.
My mate Tony had shown me how to squat a good few months ago but not only was I afraid of injuring my back with [...]
I put in my monthly expenses claim yesterday morning and decided to follow through on a plan that had been on the back burner for a while now: getting myself some new footware.
After sorting out the new firewall at the office I strutted my way down to the Doc Shop and bought a new pair [...]