Author: Keith

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… Continue reading Things you learn *after* the purchase

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… Continue reading Eastward ho!

Well. Replacement parts have arrived, latest version of Ubuntu installed, MythTV configured. Lovely. Except, well, it’s completely unstable. I think it’s a heat issue, possibly the northbridge. As soon as anything intensive kicks in, it hard locks and needs a power cycle. So I think Mike’s old mobo might get an airing…wonder how well ubuntu… Continue reading Mythbox: still not working (properly)