So popped into Hull city today (walked in) and had a good look round bought a couple of books (hence the title) and other bits and bobs before heading back via Burger King for a slap up lunch (one of the first hot meals I have enjoyed for 3 weeks now). Then got back to [...]

So I wake in the morning and find out we are heading into Hull today due to some extreme weather thats due to come in sometime later tonight early tomorrow. This means we still have 4 cables and going into Hull means the weather is expected to be very bad for sometime. So I potter [...]

Today we started another cable, cheering was heard all over the country, some even thought it was an earthquake (silly buggers).. On the other side saw a picture of a turbine coming to pieces lol.. Was one from the company I used to work for too.. I’ll try and add the videos later so you [...]

So I had the lovely joy of loading Windows XP Pro on to a Aspire 5920 and what fun I had trying to download the drivers.. Spent all day downloading drivers before I gave up and called it a night still I had most working by then so wasn’t too bad. In case anyone else [...]

Someone else has given in the the lure of Windows XP Pro over Windows Vista and I spend the whole day hunting for drivers for the Toshiba machine, not that hard to be honest as they’re on the Toshiba Support and Downloads page. However Toshiba for some strange reason only allow downloads at 8kbps at [...]

Well now as it comes towards week 3 of my offshore adventures and pirating ways I thought I’d have a run down on the pro’s and cons of working offshore. So lets see some pro’s – Lots of money (Don’t ask I hate seeing grown men cry) Can’t spend money as at sea Nice views [...]

I’m getting a bit of a reputation on here now as being the man who can I have so far flashed 5 PSP’s on here and sorted out about 9-10 laptops, so now people are starting to come to me and ask for advice, kinda cool.. And while nothing is going on is a nice [...]

So I wake this morning to find that we are still tied up just off from Skegness, so close to a kebbab yet so far.. I toy with the idea of grabbing a few Life jackets and making a dash for it when no ones looking but decide against it.. Brrr.. cold.. End up spending [...]

So I don’t bother going down on deck today as we have moved to anchor during the night as some bad weather is due to hit shortly. Instead I spend the day fiddling around with my laptop making sure its ok and trying to get sound to work under Mandriva, without any luck *still* and [...]

So after my cool session last night playing with Linux its time to reload windows onto the beast. After some playing around I manage to just load windows on to the existing Hdd without formating which was kinda useful to say the least.. About 3 hours later I have 90% of the stuff reloaded and [...]