Weekender

Reading time: < 1 min Friday night. Comic Relief. Laughing at the Prime Minister, not laughing at Gervais, bed at 10pm. Saturday. Rugby. Apologies to Ireland (but they did beat Pakistan at cricket). Bed by 10pm. Sunday. Mother’s Day. Made Mum cry (in a good way). Visited Gran. Bed by 10pm. Today. Can finally breath through nose. Just.

This, that, the other

Reading time: < 1 min I’m still hunting for a solution to my miniblog woes. Miniposts2 plugin doesn’t work, and I really don’t want to/shouldn’t HAVE to hack at PHP code. It can’t be THAT frigging hard, can it? I’m holding out for an update to Miniposts2 in the hope some of the bugs are solved as it’s my best […]

Shaggy Blog Stories

Reading time: 2 mins Don’t just sit there, GO BUY IT (it’s fer charideee, mate..). Press Release follows

Webstar Cable Modem

Reading time: < 1 min I’m posting this in the vague hope it’ll help others, save them a few bob, and at the very least it’ll mean I have this info stored somewhere when I need to look it up again. The problem My cable modem was connecting, but dropping the connection after a few minutes. Rebooting the modem gave […]

New and Shiny

Reading time: < 1 min My new PC has arrived! I spent a fair chunk of time last night un-installing the supplied software, and installing my preferred choices and all in all it’s pretty darn sleek, fast and quiet. Still a few things to tweak and tinker with but, by and large, it’s all setup how I like it. I’m […]

Arcade Fire

Reading time: 2 mins “Leave your jacket in the car” they said. And so, that is how you find the author, standing underneath the flashing neon facade which slowly cycles through the word Barrowland, dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. He is cold. When his friends finally turn up, replete with jumpers and jackets, the buggers, they troop in […]