Fliss has always known I’m a bit of a Star Trek fan and on the run up to Christmas was probing me as to which series I thought was the best. The subtle questioning resulted in a present of season one of DS9 for Christmas (FWIW she got a Family Guy box set). Fliss’ previous [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2008
I have found what I’m looking for
Unlike U2′s abortive attempts I have found the netbook I’m looking for. I went into town to play with it after my Dad pointed out the review in PCW. Sure I was wanting to go for an SSD based machine but who can argue with the battery life even if it is rotating disks? To [...]
It’s cold outside….
..although the atmosphere does in fact seem present. I can’t decide if I’m coming down with man-flu or not. When we finally arrived home yesterday my nose developed a distinct runny edge which I combated with Lemsip. However this morning it all seems pretty much fine and I’m about to cycle into town to check [...]
The Inevitable Post Christmas Write Up
So now the Christmas celebrations are over and we head towards the new year I thought I’d better do a quick write-up. This year we split Christmas between the two families over two days. This resulted in me feeling a little over fed by the end of the process. Christmas Day at my parents had [...]
Happy Festivities
I hope everyone is having a lovely Christmas. Yesterday involved a small mountain of the food and associated mini lake of wine which left me in a carb induced coma for the est of the day. As Christmas is split over the two family homes we are having Christmas 2 today with the attendant second [...]
Done
I’ve packed my work headphones, USB drive and other accoutrements and headed home. I am now a man of leisure for the foreseeable future.
Electric Heads
We watched Top Gear last night and I saw a car I’d be happy to buy and still feel good enough about my environmental credentials. I thought Clarkson was a little hard on the Tesla Roadster‘s range. The rated range of 244 miles on a full charge assumes a level of sensible driving your not [...]
Inadvisable Experiment?
One of the aspects of my personal grooming the last number of months has involved dropping the regular shaving. There are a number of reasons of which laziness and the fact it keeps my face moderately warmer when cycling are the key drivers. Outside of the first day or so of scratchy stubble Fliss actually [...]
Home is where the bandwidth is
After a few false starts last night I finally got a chance to play with PlayStation Home for a bit this morning. The simplest description of it would probably be Second Life for consoles. First impressions are actually pretty good. The initial avatar creation process certainly gives you plenty of knobs to tweak to create [...]
Week to go
I’m entering my final week of work. Baring coming in on January the 5th for the official redundination notice my last day is the 18th of December. I’m not really going to think about any job hunting/career stuff until well past the Christmas holidays. Luckily I seem to have boxed off all the “must do” [...]
