Alan Newman | alan@sensibledevelopment.com | 10 posts
MD at Sensible Development, who develop software and web applications for the web.
Back in May was my 40th birthday and my lovely partner, @abigailthompson and Richard Mitchelson colluded in secrecy (Abi snuck in to my Twitter account to get Richard’s contact details - how very dare she!) to get me a dream present. I had been after an iconic cycling related framed print for a while and [...]
August 20, 2010
This is the fictional account of Tim Krabbe, the rider and author, who is competing in a tough mountainous one day race called the Tour de Mont Aigoual. It follows his, sometimes surreal, wondering mind as he occupies himself over the steep climbs of the day. From the start we find out that he is an [...]
August 11, 2010
Whilst I was away I got time to read this rather marvelous book Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle about doping in Cycling. Prior to reading it, whilst not being totally naive, I had pretty much assumed that because of the apparently fewer positive tests in the last two seasons and since the dark days of the [...]
August 6, 2010
After watching my first ever pro-cycling race stage at this year Tour de France I thought I would put together a few of my favorite pictures from the set on my Flickr stream One of things about watching cycling races, is that basically you are way better off watching it on the telly. Eurosport have decent coverage, [...]
May 4, 2009
The final ride before next Sunday's 68 mile mid-route Duncton Sportive was a 30 mile round trip from Brighton to Henfield, via Ditchling and Poynings. The overall aim was to taper the distance down from last Wednesday's 50 mile ride and concentrate on speed a little bit more.
January 24, 2008
So here we are, the markets are reeling and the US Federal Bank is taking evasive action. It seems we have been waiting for this moment for long time. Low interest rates and booming house prices in the UK have fueled the consumer bonanza of the recent times. But now it is time to start paying [...]
January 11, 2008
Late last year I decided to find out a bit more about Twitter. A few of the Brighton crowd had been hassling me and to be honest it was time get with the program. So Twitter…well where do you start? Well, there isn’t much to it. But that is the beauty. Its simplicity is its main feature. [...]
January 9, 2008
We are nearly at the point where we can relaunch the game. I am pleased to say we have kept some of our very loyal community and they have been itching for an announcement of when the matches will start. We have also had an encouraging number of new registrations since we put the site back [...]
January 6, 2008
Prior to Christmas we started a new semi-secret project called “Project Colditz”, so called because we likened it to the last day of term at school when everyone brought in games to play. So since we’ve returned from Christmas holidays we have made a small bit of progress with it. It’s by no means complete, but it [...]
December 31, 2007
It’s Christmas and Father Christmas has really been very kind to me this year. I can announce a new arrival (no, not the baby…that is later in January) - my first ever Mac. It’s an iMac, 24 ins, 2.4Ghz, Core duo with the RAM upgrade. I am really pleased with it. I mean really, really pleased with [...]
August 23, 2010
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