Steve Baker

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Driving’s great, but it’s not as good as the real thing

by Steve Baker 13 June 2007 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Magnificent ride home last night on the KTM from London. Left the M4 at the usual place, with dusk gathering and made it home just as the last of the light left. The lanes were empty and the countryside beautiful. I spotted a lone white horse in a verdant shallow […]

Boeing Boeing

by Steve Baker 11 June 2007 in Top Tips Comments are Disabled

A play about a man running 3 fianceés, all of whom are air hostesses. Reasonably entertaining, but not more than, say, £30’s worth.

Where the Windows XP installer crashed today

by Steve Baker 10 June 2007 in Technology Comments are Disabled

Masterclass

by Steve Baker 9 June 2007 in Fun Comments are Disabled

That was hard work! Spent the morning in a BMW 528i driving to a mediocre standard, but stayed safe. Redeemed myself in the afternoon in the Saab with a smooth and well-judged drive. Thank goodness. Nerves I guess.

Riding home from London

by Steve Baker 8 June 2007 in Top Tips Comments are Disabled

Don’t just follow the M4. Leave at the westernmost junction near Reading (whatever number it is) and do the obvious thing: south then third exit (north) off the second roundabout, turning left into the lanes. Just keep following the sun and you end up joining the B road from Newbury […]

Margaux

by Steve Baker 6 June 2007 in Top Tips Comments are Disabled

Great birthday wine.

Reasons people do the wrong work

by Steve Baker 5 June 2007 in Politics, Top Tips Comments are Disabled

Why don’t people do the right work? They don’t know what to do. They don’t know how to do it. They don’t have the skills to do it. They don’t have the confidence to do it. You are in their way. All these reasons are management failures. The other reasons […]

Near miss with a tree

by Steve Baker 4 June 2007 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Almost forgot to mention: on that last skydive, the wind picked up and I misjudged my pattern. Narrowly missed trees to land just on the edge of the DZ. About time I improved my landing accuracy.

Great Skydive

by Steve Baker 2 June 2007 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Exited in a backloop at 9500 feet, got stable and practiced turns on arms and legs, in a formation suit with booties. Great fun. Now reaching the stage that I have time on my hands in freefall, even exiting 4000 feet lower than on AFF. Really looking forward to starting […]

Restored at last

by Steve Baker 2 June 2007 in Technology Comments are Disabled

So, the hard drive on my server failed in February – of course I had a backup – and it’s taken me this long to restore my sites. The trouble with working is… March was fairly adventure-free apart from, inevitably, motorcycling. April saw me return to Spain to finish my […]