Travelling home on the tube last night, I came across what appeared to be the very first poster-spam I’ve ever seen – see what you think. This is the poster in situ, on a southbound Northern Line train: I know that’s not too clear – here’s the poster, with some perspective correction and serious colour… Continue reading Poster spam?

As I wasn’t particularly happy with the way Lycoris looked or ran, I decided to try some different distros. Next up was a copy of Red Hat, specifically Red Hat Linux 9. I’d already installed this on Lou’s computer (an old Dell XPS-T500 – PIII-500/640Mb) during a recent rebuild of her machine following the replacement… Continue reading Experimenting with Linux, part 2

Hmm. I’m currently installing different Linuces (correct plural? who knows – I’m following unices…) on an old computer which we’re going to give to Gayle and Hannah as a Christmas present (although it may be early). The computer has been put together from a collection of old bits and pieces left over from upgrades and… Continue reading Experimenting with Linux, part 1

A fairly quiet weekend. My current gaming addiction to Microsoft’s MechWarrior franchise continues apace – I’ve now played my way through the singleplayer campaigns of the 4-series games – Vengance, Black Knight and Mercenaries. The main reason (apart from the fact its bloody good fun) is to remind me of the different mechs before I… Continue reading Flugtag

For some reason a shortlink from here to Plascon’s website is the #5 hit on MSN for Polyfilla. Lets make it worse – here’s Polycell’s product page – crack-filling goodness.