It seems I’m not the only one unconvinced by Rhythmbox’s shuffle mode. No sooner I mention it on the local IRC than one of my colleges points at some work he did over Christmas. While I’ve not got time to start running around patching my work box with a suitable new version I am now [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2008
WAP Day
With the chaos of the last few weeks behind us we decided to take the opportunity of weekend for some old school lazing. It was much appreciated. The big screen background for yesterday was provided by the ever excellent Withnail and I, the absurdly over the top Die Hard 4.0 and the outrageously funny Family [...]
Finding a Trade
Now I based back in Manchester I have spent the last few days of unemployed freedom trying to achive a few things. Yesterday I visited Alison and Rosie, somthing I failed to do when she gave birth as I had been running around aranging my move down south. Both where well even if I was [...]
Frenetic
This morning has been highly frenetic. I have put the flat rental on hold (which blows away the 250 pounds of agency fees). I’ve spent what seems like the entire morning making phone calls to various job agencies as well as my previous employers. I’ve fixed my CV script which was broken on the new [...]
Curveball Central
There are some times in life when you get pitched a curveball. But before I launch into that topic perhaps a little reflection of the last week should be in order. I’ve spent the last week in the Austrian resort town of Soll on skiing holiday with the family. The conditions where fantastic and only [...]
Writing up tomorrow now
Tonight shall be an early night, I have still to pack for the Ski holiday which starts at an exceptionally deniable 0300 hours tomorrow. Fliss is making noises about not accessing the ‘net for the week so I’m gathering and transcribing my thoughts now. We have a place to live! After much searching and despite [...]
Dropping Off Google
My parents where a little concerned to find their company website had dropped of Google’s search index. In fact the mirror copy on this server (which curiously isn’t linked to from anywhere) turned up higher in the search index. In fact searching using the site: keyword shows no results (which compares to the 500 or [...]
Going Mobile
I spent bits of yesterday getting final meter readings in and cancelling my Sky account. The rest of it was taken up with a fair amount of cursing at Call of Duty 4 as I struggled my way through act 3. Having the rest of the household point out the danger of hand grenades every [...]
Continuation
House hunting continued today. There was much messing about with mobile phones and reschedules and I’ve managed to book myself two viewings for Denial A.M. tomorrow before I drive back to Manchester. The spreadsheet (and gut feeling) seem to be gravitating towards the flat I saw yesterday although I am doing a second viewing to [...]
Notes on House Hunting
I’ve spent most of today house hunting. After seven years of comfortable living in my frankly over-sized house I’m finding it tricky to walk into a 2/3 bed house and visualise the two of us living in it. The cheapest one I saw today was 695 pcm but there were several things I wasn’t happy [...]
