After an extended absense during which a large portion of the house was cleared of accumulated junk… as per pervious messages… I think it’s safe to come back. Loads has happened in the world that’s worthy of comment but I don’t think I’ll be covering much of it, there’s been enough said as it is. … More We seem to be back!
As I pointed out a few posts ago, over the years the I’ve accumulated masses of computer gear, and being a bit of a magpie (not to mention being quite poor for large chunks of my life), I find it hard to throw anything away… just in case it might come in handy. We’re a … More Yet more apologies for the absence.
After months of waiting and searching around I decided in the end the Samsung Omnia wasn’t go to arrive in Oz anytime soon. Besides which there were a few issues that were concerning me about it which left me balancing between choosing it, or the new HTC Diamond as my replacement PDA. In the end … More Caved in – bought a HTC Diamond.
A couple of months ago I decided it was about time I took our house ‘in hand’. I’ve done next to no real maintenance in years and my growing collection of the bloody useless has slowly mounted up until I couldn’t see the floor for the mess! Since it’s Spring over here I figured this … More Spring into cleaning!
As you may recall I’ve been wittering on periodically about the breakdown of all our aircon machinery in both car and house. You might also recall that I took the car to the service station to be sorted out and was told the system simply needed re-gassing to ‘fix’ it, and also had arranged for … More Don't mention the air-conditioning!
A short while ago I bought myself an external SATA HDD Docking station and a couple of SATA disks to allow me to put my money where my mouth has been all these years and finally back up my computers the way I nag everyone else to! One thing that occurred to me after receiving … More I've been converted!
I mentioned that on Friday small parcel we were expecting had done it’s part to uphold the credibility of “The Jinx” and arrived whilst we were away and therefore was returned to the depot by the delivery guycompany. The result was that instead of a 24 hour turnaround, we had to wait until today (4 … More Go Logistics – just *go*!
Daylight saving started here yesterday… and ended in the UK (or is it the other way around?) anyway the clocks went forward by one hour. Went forwards everywhere… except that is, at our house. Normally I’m up coughing with the sparrows resetting all the timepieces around the house to the correct time which as you … More The perils of daylight saving.
The converter was despatched this morning. This afternoon we went shopping. When we got back – there was a note saying they’d tried to deliver the thing! Agghh… !!! By then it was 5:30 p.m. and they are closed over the weekend… and of course on Monday which is a public holiday… and there would … More I should so lucky.
I mentioned a few days ago that both the air conditioning in the house, and in the car had failed. I took the car in to be repaired this morning and left the house at 7:30 a.m. I looked at the temperature gauge and it told me it was already 27ºC. By the time I … More More on the weather.
