note to self

Looks like the SP3 update wasn’t tested on MacBook’s. I had a few excrutiating attempts to install and always being told I was 4MB short despite having 20GB free.
There is not enough disk space on C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 3 Setup requires an additional 4 megabytes of free space or if you also want to […]

This site makes you realise how poor the news is really with all this going on and all we ever hear about is Amy Wino-house and the spice girls reunion. I didn’t hear at all about police hunting a man after a home-made bomb was found at his house in Cumbria - check it out […]

Spammer gets 30 years in the slammer
Suddenly wishes Viagra was harder to come by

- their sub headlines are genius!

A couple more than last time and a few more than the time before :-) Probably should be worrying about my carbon footprint but life is too short!

create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t want everyone I know to know everyone else that I know.
It’s like when you split up from someone and you suddenly lose a group of friends because they were better friends with your now ex partner.
Imagine this in the online world. It would be […]

So Facebook is the new MySpace which was the new Friendster which was the new Tribe etc etc.
I was chatting with Davo and he quite rightly said something Anna and I have been banging on about for years. By the time you get to grips with the new site and make your profile nice and […]

So I’ve indexed my laptop now and was worried to see files from as far back as 17 November 1996. On closer inspection most of the really old files seem to ship with MS Office.
Now I know having worked for a large company creating software previously that sometimes legacy code remains simply because no one […]

It’s always amusing when you do some surfing and stumble over references to your own stuff you had forgotten about.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.8letters.co.uk

While we strive for five in the UK with our 5 a day campaign the aussies are going for 2 fruit and 5 veggies a day with a huge advertising campaign.