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Sad to say we lost George Melly yesterday. He was an odd sort of guy and a wicked old goat, but a great musician and story teller. What else is there to say about him? Lots probably… but I’ll leave that to others. I liked him.
Google has just bought Grand Central Communications. You might not think this is much of a news story… but it *might* just grow into *the* most important purchase they’ve made. The plan for Grand Central is to provide a “one stop shop” for any and all phones to allow you to add any number to … More One phone to rule them all.
I doubt anyone’s noticed but I’ve not been around much. My ADSL connection died and I was limited to my laptop… which has a separate wireless ADSL link… and as the wife has had two days off she monopolised it to access work. Charming. Anyway, as I wrote before, it turned out to be a … More Back at last!
As an addendum to yesterdays post regarding the tyres, I got home and discovered the ADSL connection had died. Spent over two hours on the phone to the tech to made all sorts of adjustments… and then gave up at 10:30 p.m . He’s referred it up the line to the next level tech who … More By the way
Oh yes… the jinx strikes again! For the last few days the back nearside tyre has had a slow puncture. Being a little slow myself lately it’s taken me a while to organise myself to get it fixed. Eventually off I went to the local Bridgestone Tyre company after first making sure they dealt with … More What? Not *more* on the jinx?
Finally finished off renovating the basic parts of Talk Tidy and sent it live. I figured that at this time of night (in the UK) there wouldn’t be too many people on the old site so I didn’t mind cutting them off too much. Of course those people that had the site bookmarked will be … More Got there!
I’m sure the adding of the ‘Free Alan Johnston’ button to our site was the catalyst for his sudden release a few days later. I mean what else could have caused it?? Possibly I suppose it might have been the surrounding of his place of imprisonment by Hamas gunmen and an ultimatum to let him … More Alan Johnston freed!
On the right hand side of the blog is a list of sites we visit. One of these points to the desk of The Phantom Staple Remover who lives in sunny London. His blog is well worth a visit today if only to see the look on the face of his visiting cat, Bernard, who … More Nice life for a cat.
As I said earlier, I’ve been working quietly on updating the old http://www.talktidy.com site and have almost completed it. All I really need now is a new ‘links’ page and to tidy up a few loose bits of code… and then it’ll be done. I’ve been feeling quite pleased with myself. The old site is … More Almost there!
Kids were due to be picked up at 3.00 or so but I got ther at 3:20. This was because I’d forgotten I’d not paid for their courses so had to go back to the ATM for cash. Picked up kids… drove all the way to the rink… and *then* discovered I’d left the skates … More And then aggravation.
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