It’s tempting to comment on today’s release of Vista but I suspect I shall wait until reports of machines being bricked when drivers start getting remotely revoked by Microsoft. Instead I thought I would offer a comment on the Catholic Church complaining they haven’t been given the right to discriminate. The central basis of their …
Pictures from my skiing holiday are up. Notice the large amounts of green from the first few days and how much snow on the last day. And of course the snazzy boots.
I am now back in Manchester having returned from a week of Skiing with my nearest and dearest. I was also induced to abstain from accessing the ‘net for the week so will be summarising the week from memory I headed down to Cambridge on Friday as the clan (and partners) assembled for the denial …
The metro got taken out by today’s high winds. I was literally forced to camp out in Sinclairs waiting for the city centre grid lock to abate. I suppose I could of walked but I didn’t want a premature injury given I’m off down south before catching a flight to Ski In the meantime I …
I was disappointed with Today’s discussion about Dennis Avery’s book Unstoppable Global Warming. The central tenant of the book is that global warming is not due to human action but part of a natural environmental cycle of the earth – basically we can’t do anything about it and should just prepare for it. What was …
I took advantage of my flexible working to leave early last Friday to visit the lovely Fliss. As has been noted elsewhere there was, in rough order: Cocktails, parents, Kew Gardens, and catching up with old school friends. I did take a whole bunch of pictures which I should do a camera dump from my …
Why would I bother with a fancy OSX enabled iPhone if I can’t hack about with it?
Jo very kindly came into town today to take advantage of her last week of employment at Empire of Evil and their staff discount. After an initial faffing on with a price higher than I was quoted on Tuesday the salesman came right down to the best web price I had found (but including installation). …
I had a phishing email arrive in my INBOX today. This wouldn’t be noteworthy except it was an attempt was mailed to one of my many aliases. I create these aliases so I can track who’s being liberal with my data even though I always tick the “Do not share my email” boxes and generally …
If I can bring the Currys.Digital sales guy down another 100 or so pounds I’m tempted to get my Christmas present to self. His current (first) offer was ?1100 including tilt wall mounting with delivery and install. I think the best web price I found was ?929 but I’m willing to give a little (but …