Consider this a test of the image upload code I copied wrote last night: below, there should be a picture of Lou! [probably not on the front page] Actually, its fixed now. The image is below. But I thought it would spoil the comment thread if I went and fixed it, so I’ve left the… Continue reading UPDATED: Image upload

Bloody hard drive. Bought a IBM/Hitachi 180GXP 120Gb harddrive from Savastore a month ago. When I got the drive home, it made a godawful whining noise, so I sent it back and got another one. I’ve tried reseating it, I’ve tried ignoring it, but this ones making a godawful whining noise too and its driving… Continue reading Noise!

I’ve just spent the last 5 hours staring deeply into a 30-column, three-sheet spreadsheet which I needed to consolidate prior to importing it into a database. Each sheet had different columns, most of which needed to be included and some which needed to be removed/merged with others to fit the data structure in the db.… Continue reading Datablind

What an excellent weekend! Drunken debauchery from me on Friday. Drunken debauchery from Lou on Saturday. Friday consisted of drinks in our local, Hardy’s/The Trafalgar (yet to find a decent weblink for that), followed by excessive drinking and scoffing back at the flat. Saturday we spent watching some new DVDs Lou had snagged in the… Continue reading Big-screen boozing

…who’s finally got round to emailing the western world to let it know he’s still alive. Apparently he hasn’t been kidnapped, eaten by dragons or involved in a secret plot to destroy Tony Blair. Good. And it looks like he might grace these shores again in the not-too-distant future too, so I might actually get… Continue reading Hurrah for Ben