Author Archives: Keith

More of a personal jotter really, but this wasn’t exactly high up in my search results. Having problems editing some video in Premiere Pro CS3 — whenever I tried to preview, I got an error message which read “Premiere Pro has encountered an error” then gave a path to a file called MonitorMixer.cpp-153. Googling lead [...]

Today is Bill Gates’s last day as chairman of Microsoft, and they’ve modified their homepage accordingly. But they’ve chosen “looking back, moving forward” as the strapline, and when you look in one direction and move in another, most times you strip over a kerb or walk into a lamppost. Tsk. Click for bigger

A quick list of things I’ve learned/things I’ll mean to remember but actually forget next time I’m buying: 1. Not everything that seems to work will actually work. Ask about specifics.2. You haven’t bought enough white emulsion.3. Beg/steal/borrow industrial degreaser. Saves time and scrubbing in the kitchen4. It won’t look better once it’s had a [...]

So I’ve bought a flat and moved in. Yay for me. Now to spend the rest of my life painting…

New house! All going well, the house search is over, and I shall shortly (well, relatively shortly) be living in Catford. I should probably link that, and will later. In the meantime, please read the blog of The Man From Catford. I’ve no idea who he is, from a quick glance I think I’d like [...]