. . and the new job is still very much a revelation. It's such a surprising feeling to wake up at a decent time in the morning, after a ...

. . and all is well. Can I mention how bloody lovely it is to have a commute of just 20 minutes each way? I can't remember the last tim...

OK - it's now official so I can blog about it. Those close to me will know that I've always been into technology and computing. Yet ...

. . .was had by all! Saturday night was spent quaffing beer, burning Knoppix CDs and configuring xmame . Mostly quaffing, in my case. Sunda...

. . But with good reason. Sorry, there's a lot going on at the moment. Mostly good, but not postable at this time - watch this space. On...

I'm still loving my Ubuntu install - it's given my laptop a whole new lease of life! Here's a screenshot..... I have to say I ca...

...So finally my laptop has a decent OS on it... To be exact, Ubuntu Linux . Installation took about 45 minutes, and everything except WLAN ...

I used to believe that I only blogged - only actually wrote - when I was miserable. For me, for the longest time, writing was a way to esc...

So I visited the crash compound to clear the car out, and took the opportunity to take some more shots. I have to say, in the cold light of ...

One day, the law of averages is gonna get you. Yesterday was that day. Nine years of accident-free driving...gone. Plus, I had the exciting ...

It's odd - there's been so much going on in the news recently. The 'Jowellgate ' affair. . . Bush and the Katrina Briefings ...

Well, we can hope. . .

. . has a link to the John Birch Society poll asking whether Dubya should be impeached. Go there. Vote. The results make for interesting re...

Now THIS is amusing. Bliar has talked before about creating a 'culture of respect' in this country. Now don't get me wrong, I...

This is quite a turn-up. When a respected, veteran soldier decides to become embroiled in politics, and calls for the impeachment of the Pr...

The more astute among you may note that there have been a couple of changes here. Firstly - no posts since 21 December - and secondly, I...

It had to happen. . . . I've ended up doing techie duties again here at $WESELLCOOLHARDWARE. The sorry saga follows, with names excised ...

But first, some geekery....I'm still waiting for DSL to be activated, and living on dialup is driving me nuts. The current expected acti...

Hmmm. . .Probably the shortest-lived webpage ever...up, viewed (by me) and down in about 2 minutes. Why? Frontpage. Blech. It looked awful, ...