The wife’s company has moved headquarters and had a bucket load of ‘stuff’ left over form the move they wanted to get rid of. They decided to hold an ‘auction’ to let the staff get some of it and we bid on a lot of it. What we ‘won’ was a couple of tables we … More Auction stuff.

Forgot to mention I got the reports back from the docs after my blood tests.Basically all well within normal limits… the doctor seemed very disappointed when he told me. 🙂 As usual he has looked at my size and less than co-ordinated mental state and assumed I would have high cholesterol and a variety of … More Doctors reports

By now I’d usually have gone rushing out to buy this sork of book… especially knowing its pedigree, however this time I’ve not done so. This is partly because I’ve got so much work to do here I’ve just not had time to get to the book shop, but its also because several times I’ve … More Tolkien – Children of Hurin

Today’s question is *why* do we bother skimming chicken stock… or any other kind for that matter? If it isn’t obvious from the question I’m getting back on the diet… and more specifically making the soup to go with it. The reaction to the stings seems to have gone altogether so I can’t use it … More To skim or not to skim…

Yet again a college campus in the USA has become a killing ground as a lone maniac guns down 32 kids in cold blood. No doubt the National Rifle Association will find a hundred reasons to continue and justify the sale of guns to almost anyone who asks for a licence. And yet the killing … More Worse than Columbine

For those of you who’ve been using LCD screens for years it probably wouldn’t even cause you to raise an eyebrow but it’s such an improvement for me it still amazes… and long may it continue to do so 😀

So off I went to pay for the computer. On the way I stopped by the Credit Union, partly to draw out the cash and partly to check what the daily drawing limit was on the card in case I wanted to take out ‘extra’ cash. As it turned out there was a sufficiently high … More Jinks… yet more jinx?

Talking of vice versa, which I was in the previous post, have I mentioned the new word Australian kids have taken to heart? When they compete with one another… in any game… they ‘verse’ each other! This I put down to crappy education since it obviously is derived from the word ‘versus’ without a complete … More On a theme

Had a cable left over and couldn’t make out what it was for. Was an audio connection so should have been obvious in retrospect… but wasn’t. Quite by chance I read the tiny tickers on the front of the monitor and saw ‘stereo speakers’… d’oh! Connected the monitor to the CPU and away we go! … More The beast update.

So… the machine. It has an Intel dual Core E6400 chip; an Asus 22″ widescreen monitor with 2ms refresh; 360Gb HDD, 2Gb RAM, TV tuner, Wireless card, webcam and the rest… and Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. It’s actually quite a substantial machine to be honest. Not quite ‘state of the art’ but close enough … More The technological beast.