Archive for 2005

Hmm, Upgrades 31 Dec 2005

I’ve upgraded to a newer version of WordPress, it seems to have been fairly smooth and everything seems to be working a-ok, but please let me know if you see anything a little squiffy. Cheers.

We have some lime shower gel at the moment, whoa is it potent. Aside from smelling good enough to eat (the negative of which is that you walk around smelling like Key Lime Pie), it’s mean enough to rip through your sinuses. If you’ve got a cold (or, as is also appropriate for this time [...]

Quality Service 17 Dec 2005

Big companies spend millions of pounds trying to build customer relations, trying to woo and keep customers. Generally, I like to think I’m immune to much of this and go where the price is best despite their efforts to keep us (have you noticed that they suddenly hike your car insurance up in year two [...]

Dark Ages 12 Dec 2005

It’s true, you don’t really miss things ’till their gone. Our electricty, for example, has been doing it’s best impression of a yo-yo this last week (hence my strange posting schedule). Last Sunday it went down, came back, went down, came back, went down again and finally came back. Yesterday it stuck with the single [...]

Worried about the Stats 10 Dec 2005

Earlier this week someone tried to break into my grandparents’ house. That’s unofficial as the police are still investigating. You see, at 2:30 am, the outer panel of the double-glazed door in their porch was smashed. Naturally, this woke my grandad (not my gran, deaf as a post, she could sleep through an air raid). [...]

Why Goblet of Fire is My Favourite 7 Dec 2005

Originally posted on Potter’s Place As I mentioned in my review, Goblet of Fire is my favourite of the Harry Potter books (thus far at least). For many fans Prisoner of Azkaban was the high point of the series, so I decided to try and explain just what it is I like so much and [...]

Lads Mags 4 Dec 2005

Yesterday’s BBC newsletter pointed to a reader’s article in the ‘Magazine‘ section called ‘I hate lad mags.’ As you can guess from the title, it’s a negative piece by a BBC Online reader about why they dislike ‘lad mags’ and that we should all worry about what they’re doing to men and boys. Do I [...]

Come In, Houston 28 Nov 2005

I am still here, honestly (not that I’ve had a flood of people asking why I haven’t posted in a week). I just haven’t posted because, well, two reasons: 1. I haven’t found anything that has roused me to do so, and, 2. I’ve been busy Not that I haven’t been posting to my other [...]

Download TV 20 Nov 2005

Ivan Askwith has written an interesting article on how TV downloads will change the way TV works. As someone who has recently taken to the freedom a PVR allows for control and rescheduling of TV programmes I can certainly see what he’s saying. I am also one of the people who bought Firefly on DVD, [...]

My Pirate Story Part 3 16 Nov 2005

Okay, this is part three of my pirate story for WriAShorStorWe. You might like to check out part 1 or part 2. The following morning the crew assembled on the deck of the Revenge. Captain Ardent addresses them from the poop deck. “Well lads, I think it’s safe to say that you’ve just written another [...]