Reading time: 3 mins My sister-in-law Claire, despite her protestations, is a wonderful person. If I didn’t already have a wonderful sister then she would easily adopt that status (dropping the slightly off putting ‘in-law’ status seems much more personal). She is a single mother of four, and is currently back at college and hoping to get one place…
Reading time: < 1 min No one tells me anything. If I was 13 years old again I’d probably stomp my way upstairs and slam my bedroom door. Twice. Except I’m now a mature 31, already up the stairs, and if I slam the door I’ll wake up my beloved wife and she’ll castrate me. Anyway, where was I? Oh…
Reading time: < 1 min [Public Service Announcement] Windows XP users! Are you fedup with applications stealing focus when they are launched? I am, especially as I had installed TweakUI for XP which has the option to “Prevent applications from stealing focus”. And then I remember reading somewhere that, in a previous version of TweakUI, that option actually worked in…
Reading time: < 1 min Changed the title. Memories of childhood scribblings on Valentine’s card. As Chaucer once wrote: For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate. This year I made Louise’s card, with my own two hands, so if that doesn’t win me some brownie points then I’d suggest the…
Reading time: 2 mins You’ve just received your new stereo system. You’ve unpacked it, picked off all those little styrofoam biscuits, and waded your way through the installation manual (but only because you got stuck). Red cable here, green cable there, plug here, connector there. You hit the power button and, with a quiet hum, the beast breathes. The…
Reading time: < 1 min I’m rattling through my To-Do list for today, and I remember a comment I saw in the HaloScan forums last night. Jeevan pointed out that HaloScan had, justifiably, been nominated and I started to wonder how many of the Bloggies nominees used HaloScan. That lead me to ponder which blogging tool was the most popular…