It’s raining – reprise
Well, when I got up this morning, the rain had stopped and the sun was out. But it’s raining again! Bucketing down! With gusto. I mean, it’s really really trying hard.
Category: Ramblings
Mighty-Mouse Scrollwheel – Dead then NOT!
Ok, so the mighty mouse is a thing of beauty. It’s an accurate, comfortable and pretty mouse. Except it has a tiny little pea-sized rollerball embedded in the top for scrolling in 360 degrees. The trouble is, gunge, oose and muck get in there and, if it blocks the sensors, stops the scrollball from working.
It’s raining!
It’s bucketing down here. Nothing new, you’re probably crying, because – after all – it’s rained a LOT this summer. No, really, A LOT. No, this is different rain. This is good honest-to-god hurtling towards earth making a colossal racket and hitting the ground hard enough to bounce three inches back into the air. It’s
It’s a funny old life….
….you think you know how the land lies and then something comes along that pulls the rug out from under you. Is it just me, or are we being surreptitiously taxed to death?
The Grand Romp (part 3)
Ok, so the more observant nelefans amongst you may have noticed the Nike+ challenge widget that sat over there —–> Well, after the EPIC FAIL which resulted in none of us actually doing anything towards the challenge, we decided to start a new one – 100km by the end of September. Sounds doable, I think.
A matter of priorities
Bizarrely, I read in the news today that a British woman has just been fined £16,000 for putting a video game on a filesharing network. Fair enough I suppose. The trouble is, I also read last week that a British woman received £10,000 compensation for being subjected to a particularly brutal rape. Is the British
Oh! Another thing!
My beloved Mrs Gubbins has her very own website here. On it you’ll find wee mini images of the awesome GIANT CANVASSES she paints.
Quote of the Week
 While crawling about the back of a server rack connecting serial ports to a serial console server, I was asked what I was doing. “Connecting these machines to the serial console so I can identify and label them.” “It would be quicker to set up a running ping and then yank the cables out and