Archive for May, 2004
Yay for me, it’s all working. pulled everything apart, laid out all the wiring, hoovered and dusted everything inside and out and got it all back together with the new dvd player and everything works perfectly Not only that but I’ve resolved the issue I’ve always had with the vcr sound, No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Well I’m finally going to open up the cabinet and rewire the entertainment system – put on the new dvd player and remove the old one, plus hook up the cd player seperately and see if I can get the vcr sound to come through properly. Big and scary – I’ve never done this No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Finally got my friend’s gateway sorted last week – ended up having to get ahold of a new machine for it, but now have suse 9.0 installed and a nice gateway / firewall setup. I got it to work with the optus dns servers and now only need to setup desktop links for him Related posts:Alas poor weekend, I knew him, Horatio… [ READ MORE ]
I have just watched the Godfather part one again, having finally done what I’ve been harping on about doing for a couple of years now – I bought the godfather boxed set of DVDs. Using the natty little HMV vouchers I received for my birthday (plus a little cash) I picked it up today No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Bah. I was walking home from the train station (yes I know, me walking *gasp*.) and just reflecting that it had been a pretty damn good week, when I walked under a tree at the beginning of my street and a bird shat on my head. Yes that’s right, on my head – No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Its strange the way time can pass unnoticed – especially when you’re caught up in something. Hobbies, obsessions, work, illness, stress or just the distractions of daily life can so completely occupy your waking faculties that you suddenly come to and realise its august and you’ve forgotten to send a mother’s day card… I No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Once again jEdit saves me massive amounts of time. Knocked this up today to help Scruff with a bunch of nasty html – all the html attributes had been left unquoted, IE <table border=1 cellpadding=0 bgcolor=#ffffff> etc etc. With jEdit’s regex find and replace however this was all it took to clean up No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Well it just keeps going. This morning I discovered there’s a writer’s newsletter that gets put up on the intranet here! I’ve been hoping to make some friends among the writing staff once I’m settled in and perhaps pick their brains, or even drag a few of them into Poetic License (more motivation No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
R made the mistake last night of mentioning she had a present for me just before we went to sleep, so I insisted on knowing what it was right then and there *grin*. As it turns out I’m extremely chuffed – the love of my life bought me a book named Beyond the Words No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
I am having an absolutely brilliant week. Just completed day two of my new job and I have to say I am even more enamoured of the place than I was before. I’m constantly finding out new things about the place that I love, and just being there is highly enjoyable. It’s No related posts.[ READ MORE ]