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 [...]

Sabriel 19 Dec 2005

I picked up the recommendation for Sabriel in a few different places with everyone rating it highly, but for the first half, maybe two-thirds, I was teetering on the edge of walking away from the book. In the end I was glad I stuck with it, but the story takes a very long 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 sites (part [...]

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 [...]