Month March 2004

Reading time: < 1 min I love spring. Crocuses (croci) creeping out from patches of grass, a gentle breeze, the rebirth of… Yawn. Better open the curtains. Eh?

Reading time: < 1 min I was going to moan at length about my recent phonecall to my bank’s online services department. But I won’t as it’s only me that will be irked by it. So, in short:Get letter with new ‘access code’. Go to website, try access code, fails three times: “Access suspended. Please phone us on …”Phone and…

Reading time: 2 mins I’ve been running Firefox now for about a month. It’s good. I’ve had a few issues installing Java support but two plugins make it all worthwhile (web developer and Tabbrowser Extensions). Of course most of the interface is pretty ‘standard’ so isn’t much of a leap, but it’s nicely configurable and so allows me to…

Reading time: < 1 min Zip whoosh clang kerplunk The past couple of days and nights have been a bit of a blur as I bury my head in a. work and b. Scottish Blogs. Work is work, and we don’t talk about that here in any depth so I’ll just say PPFFFFTTTTTT!!!!! and be done with it. Scottish Blogs…

Reading time: < 1 min “Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first, and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.” George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Reading time: 3 mins How this came about. An email pops into my inbox. A lady at the BBC would like to speak to me about an upcoming item for Radio Scotland. Me? Really? Finally! I’ve been found, plucked from the masses to be elevated to the higher echelons of society. It’s art you see, well the “Arts Show”…