Popped out this morning for a coffee in town, was very strange as when we arrived it was clearly not busy but as we left the coffee shop it was getting silly. First things first .. Sales? WHAT sales? Everything I saw was actually more expensive than before Christmas. Mental. Got a call from the [...]

As it is coming to the end of the year I have been mulling over how good/bad it has been so far. As to be truthful I have noticed that my mind keeps comparing it to times in the 90′s when I *think* they were better. However I know that they were not, and that [...]

Boy it was cold last night.. Brrr anyway took the hounds to the downs in the afternoon, well about 4pm to be truthful just before it started to get dark.. And well it was bloody freezing up there on the downs the ground was frozen solid and it looked like it had snowed it was [...]

Got up late and spent the day just chilling out (which was nice) kept finding myself playign the guitar a fair few times too.. Starting to get used to the new one a bit but have to be honest and say prefer the acoustic still, the electric is hard to get to sound right at [...]

So the day has arrived and with Jasper and P dropping in to say they are not making it we start to think that perhaps everyone is just too old for these sorts of thing now. Still I have a bit of a play around and get some PC’s arranged out the back (just in [...]

Someone told me that the real day that presents were given on all those many years ago was in fact Boxing Day, I even remember getting some presents on Boxing Day when I was a kid. Not so these days as Boxing day is just another excuse to flog a dead horse to the public [...]

Ok this year is a little different as most of my prezzies are less than gadgetry and that’s mainly due to the fact that well I’m a right pain in the arse to buy for lol.. Anyway top of the list of cool items where – Electric guitar from Angel – although the neighbours maybe [...]

Welcome to Meltdown Eve 2008, this is the day when all the shops increase prices by 75-80% and say they are having a sale, whilst strangely selling out of the only item on sale 5 minutes after opening (well they only had one). This year we managed to get *everything* sorted early even having the [...]

Ok so today has been about a couple of things. First I discovered that running two monitors and using VirtualBox can be pretty surreal and second that Firewire printers are a complete arse! So firstly I was playing about with VirtualBox after finding the extra 3D implementations I thought I would play a bit so [...]

Ok so those who read this on a regular basis (you really should see a therapist you know) will remember me waffling on a couple of days ago about setting up a bridge in Linux (mandriva in this case) so I could get my VM machines to have local IP addresses so I could route [...]