Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Confusing hardware issues at home

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

I’ve got this server in my loft at home that’s mainly a file server for the data we use/view/listen to here. It looks like this:

A bit of a beast. When I bought it over 4 years ago I somehow thought I’d be adding a lot more drives. Anyway.
It’s been a good, reliable bit of kit [...]

THING!

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

I always find it adorable when Jenny talks to me in her sleep, especially when my responses obviously provoke a reaction without waking her up.
Out of nowhere just now:

Her: Erm. Erm. If you’ve separated all the wood stuff how are you going to separate the rest?
Me: What wood stuff?
Her: From my bit.
(voice manages to convey [...]

The dark side of Dubai; the dark side of us

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I saw a link to this article about Dubai on Twitter today. Like zts, I found it an extremely disturbing read, stopping at many points to read out loud to anyone who would listen. I recommend that you read it too.
After having read through it, I suppose my first thought is to wonder [...]

The Bedfont Triangle

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Since moving in to this flat about 6 weeks ago, the following items have broken or started to behave oddly:

Humax PVR started displaying everything in a shade of pink when set to RGB output (like it always has been).
One of my LCD panels had its display totally corrupted with a strange tartan effect for about [...]

Stitching together social networking

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

I don’t think I’m addicted to these things, but I do use social networking a fair bit.
On the microblogging front I use Twitter (mostly posting via Identi.ca).
For the classic social networking stuff I’m on Facebook and LinkedIn.
I’m scrobbling my audio to last.fm, there is of course this blog receiving occasional posts and I’ve been on [...]

lastminute.com strangeness

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

I booked a hotel on lastminute.com and accidentally did 4 nights when I meant to do 5. Well actually what I did was I booked Eurostar for 5 nights when I meant to do 4, and Eurostar is not refundable or amendable, so the “best” thing to do was take an extra day of [...]

Advice to Somerset House Summer Screen visitors

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Somerset House for the last few years has screened some open air movies each summer. Here’s some advice if you’re going.

Do arrive 2+ hours before the movie starts when the doors open, as space goes quickly and you’ll want to stake your claim. Have a picnic.
Do not bring any glass bottles, they’ll only [...]

ow ow ow

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

For the last 2 days I’ve been feeling shooting pains in one part of my head, a bit like a migraine. My eye on the same side felt a bit sore as well but I couldn’t see anything really wrong with it. It seemed to get better if I took my glasses off [...]

Busy family weekend

Monday, June 15th, 2009

My mother and her partner Alan came down to London on Friday afternoon to see a show (Oliver!) I’d bought them tickets for. We let them do their own thing on the Friday, though I was pleased to hear that their tickets were front row seats which they very much enjoyed. Despite me [...]

Exercise

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Anyone who knows me will know that I don’t get enough exercise. Over the last year or so I have lost a bit of weight due to having a better diet and being a little bit more active. Now that I’m working from home almost all the time I thought it would be [...]