In between a night in Knutsford, impromptu dinner party with cards and a visit from Lee last night I have been mostly going on trips to the dump.

As Fliss is moving in at the beginning of next month we thought it would be a good time to get junk …

I saw an interesting piece discussing Microsoft's woes with their band-aid fix for playing multi-media while on a loaded network. From the description of the scheduling work around it does seem like a school boy error, you just can't fix performance issues by tweaking priorities.

Although Linux is still meant …

I came home on the metro today after a month or so of using the pretty efficient bus service. The ride is certainly a lot smoother although they seem to be taking it easy on the new rails at the moment. I knew it was quieter as I could hear …

There was an amusing story last night involving know when the August Bank Holiday actually was. Due to some sleepy conversation with Fliss a few days before I thought it was next weekend and we had made some plans accordingly. Hence this weekend was a more than normal flying visit …

I finished it last night. It turns out Chewbacca isn't his father after all...