Reading time: < 1 min Still raining. Drip has vanished though. We’ve cancelled plans for a double header at the cinema as it’s not the kinda day where you want to venture out, so it’s a TV day, just finished Gosford Park (which was excellent) and tonight it’ll probably be Tomb Raider 2. Both were borrowed and we are notoriously…
Reading time: 2 mins Did I say it was sunny yesterday at some point? I forget. Especially as I’ve been woken by wind lashing the rain against the window and the return of my favourite sound, the drip in the ceiling. I last experienced that sound about eight years ago when we last lived somewhere that had a roof…
Reading time: < 1 min For some reason, without fail, I wake at around 7am at the weekend. BING! Wide awake. Can someone explain why? I should point out that I don’t actually get up at that time, I usual doze off again after about 10 minutes but it’s getting a little tiresome. Particularly when I struggle to get up…
Reading time: < 1 min [non-geeks look away now] I’ve had nothing but hassles since I upgraded to XP Pro late last year. So last week I decided to bite the bullet and reformat my main hard drive and try a clean installation. Easier said than done. Suffice to say that despite having checked that my Dell PC can boot…
Reading time: < 1 min Friday is cake day at work. A hapless victim Someone volunteers to go along to Greggs and bring back about £20 worth of cakes, doughnuts and the like. There’s always plenty to go round and towards the end of last year I was sneaking in a mid-afternoon yum-yum to go with my morning fudge doughnut.…
Reading time: 2 mins Lockergnome’s RSS Resource is chock full of information. So much so that I’ve not really taken much time to get to grips with both the site, and RSS in general. Yes I have an XML feed but as a Blogger Pro user, that’s really just a few clicks and and a filename to handle. If…