Larks and Japes

Posted on Thu 25 November 2004 in general

For a lark I've disabled the Virus checker on my machine to see if the login problems we have been seeing where triggered by the overnight scan. Not that I'm prejudiced against this software mind, not at all, honest guvnor.

My Christmas present to myself is now ordered and on …


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Frustrations

Posted on Wed 24 November 2004 in general

Yesterday proved frustrating on many levels. My work PC was dieing in stages thanks to a faulty CPU fan. The problem I was trying to solve involved a little more fudgeing
than I was happy with. To top it off I sacked off going to the Gym after work because …

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Sting

Posted on Tue 23 November 2004 in general

After the carefully crafted excuses that got me home early last night I headed of to see Sting at the MEN. As the forth ticket was obtained on a second order I was on my own in the upper right of the Arena. Unfortunately the MEN acoustics did mean the …

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Cut Backs

Posted on Mon 22 November 2004 in general

My PC at work started to complain about the CPU overheating this afternoon. Sure enough once I'd re-booted into the BIOS it seems the CPU Fan was spinning at 0RPM (in fact it was spinning, I suspect just not fast enough). It gave me a convenient excuse to head home …


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For all you Register readers

Posted on Mon 22 November 2004 in general

Nice, so visiting the register and seeing some banner ads is enough to infect your computer. Is there a reason you are not using firefox yet?