Less than a week until I hit the snow. Tash organised a seven day snowboarding sojourn to Chamonix where I will learn afresh the true meaning of pain. I have not been boarding for nearly three years, and I’ve gained about 10 kilos in that time. This weekend was mostly spent buying new gear –…

Saddam captured – the promise of ‘justice’ being served to this tyrant may cause many not to consider the double standards and hypocrisy represented by this action. I heard on the news a surprised British interviewer saying that Saddam’s trial might be held in Iraq. Why was he surprised? Saddam did nothing to Britain or…

Someone in the Harrods marketing department has committed something of a branding sin. In the sports section they have a shoe area that is called ‘The Sweatshop’. However, the only sign of a sweat-shop I could see was the end-product.

The other day I installed Mandrake Linux 9.1 and all things internet worked fine. So I get to thinking that I’ll go one better and give myself an upgrade to the recently released 9.2. 9.2 is definitely slicker than 9.1, but for the life of me I have yet to get my adsl modem, a…

The most popular search term from which users find this site? ‘doggers’. And there’s a bit of a scene down there in Poole by the looks of it. Nearly 800 ‘unique visitors’ last month. I’m stoked! If you want to boost your ratings, there’s only one real answer….

…or I think his nose might have started growing. He was on Jay Leno’s show claiming to have climbed the Welliewood icon that is the bucket fountain, and, dig this, pissed in it. Bastard. However, I think he might be telling porkies. I’d be surprised if he’d have been able to climb the fountain with…

I’ve been wondering if you can run linux on a Sony Ericsson T610 (my latest toy). Volker reports that someone got it running on a digi-cam. And he said that it’s useless????

I took the plunge (again) last week and installed Linux on the Thinkpad. I first used Linux back in 1998, and every couple of years do an experimental install to see how it’s changed. I’ve never really stuck with it though, as I find myself forced back to Windows because of my reliance on Notes.…

Here’s an IE bug I’ve just found out about… if you create a div, assign it a margin: and then assign float:left; to the div, IE gives you a bonus DOUBLE MARGIN WIDTH! Oh, yes, I feel like the big winner here today. Fortunately there is an answer. It looks as though all(?) versions of…

A curse on virgin.net “broadband”! It has been incredibly slllloooooowwww for weeks now. It may take, say, 10 minutes (while I make the tea and watch a bit of telly) to download just the top graphic on a page. They have promised that come the 14th of November all will be well, but I will…