The blog looks fantastic on a 22″ widescreen monitor… but I have no idea what it looks like on a smaller standard screen. Some feedback on the appearance would be appreciated… please? 🙂

Gosh… it turns out that capital punishment by lethal injection appears to be even *more* “cruel and unusual than anyone thought. You can read the full story here. Basically it appears that the drugs used to sedate the condemned before the lethal cocktail is injected quite often doesn’t work. In fact, the situation is so … More Death by legal torture?

On the way to the station the wife was querying the origins of the word tattoo and where the practice originated. I thought it was common in the stone age… but she thought it might have required metal so perhaps might have originated in the iron age. A Wikipedia article says the word tatoo is … More Tattoo?

Last nights sojourn in the cold and damp seems to have left its mark in the form of a disturbed night, and an attack of the sniffles this morning. I think maybe it’s time to take myself off to my kip where I can quietly fester and suppurate until I feel better. Never mind, it’s … More And now I'm sneezing.

Teachers drive me crazy, especially the ones who teach my kids. I expect very little from them and in return I expect them to expect very little from me. Well I uphold my end of the bargain, but sometimes I find they don’t uphold theirs. For example they seem to think it’s essential that at … More You got an 'ology'?'

I sat down today to reformat and make functional my old machine so the littlest one can use it. However, the jinx is still chugging along in the background so either the OS hasn’t installed itself properly or there is something amiss with the software because nothing is ‘going right’. Not sure yet whether to … More Talking of tech.

So off I go to pick up the lappie as instructed. When I get there I discover they’d not fixed it because they didn’t have a replacement drive… which is pretty much what I thought they’d say when I took it there but they’d disagreed. So I drive to Ryde, and talk to the Danka … More I.T. tighty cost almighty.

Went off eventually this morning to pick up the laptop and drop a monitor off to a friend. Explained what was going on the the oldies and after chivvying the young ones to get a move on, started for the car. Suddenly… the old man turns to the old lady and says “Come on then… … More So just as we go out…

Thought I’d try out a new theme. If I ever get around to designing a theme with an Australian flavour, I think I’d like to build it around this one. It seems to do most of what I’d like it to do, albeit with a colour/graphic scheme that’s a little over the top. 🙂 Anyway … More Slight change to the theme

After some searching around… online and in my memory… I realised the FTP client that I needed was Filezilla. This FTP client has several things going for it. To begin with it works, always the most important thing. Secondly it’s free, and you can’t go wrong with that either! And of course being open source … More Filezilla to the rescue!