Entries from June 2005

30 June 2005: Micronotwave

Microwaves aren’t particularly hard. You get a temperature setting and a time setting. Doddle. Dead easy. You pick your temperature and you pick your time. Any old muppet could cope with that. Now imagine you are presented with a

30 June 2005: We Are Promoting a Dishwasher

We are Promoting a Dishwasher. An immortal phrase from a spam email I receieved the other day. Didn’t say what the job was that the dishwasher had been given, but I’m sure it was the best candidate.

29 June 2005: Aim and Shoot

Brighton was the first big test for the new digital camera, which we’d been merely pottering around with until then.

28 June 2005: Sorry I’m Late Home. It Was Coldplay’s Fault

Which prat decided Crystal Palace was a good place to host a Coldplay concert on a weekday evening? I ask as one of thousands of commuters whose journey home this evening was made a misery thanks to countless train disruption on the Southern Metro network, caused by hordes of gig-goers filling trains and stations whilst railway staff struggled to cope with the crowds.

28 June 2005: Closedown Cult

One of the finest BBC websites around. One of the quirkiest, one of the most popular, one of the most imaginative, one of the most distinctive parts of the BBC’s online output. In fact one of the best pieces of online non-news editorial content the BBC has produced. And the BBC’s Cult website is closing.

26 June 2005: Saving Money On The Trains

One thing occurred to me recently - that a lot of people don’t know about some little money saving tricks…

26 June 2005: Two Go To Brighton

Friday was a rare day off for Catherine and myself, so we decided to take ourselves off to the seaside to soak up some sun, and with Brighton being an hour a way, it was there we took ourselves.

23 June 2005: Mandriva

Funny isn’t it that you spend more time preparing to upgrade your operating system, then you do actually upgrading your operating system.

23 June 2005: Holiday!

A couple of weeks ago I realised that not only was it June, but I’d had a whole of three days off work in the first five months of the year. And one of those was taken so I could do tourist stuff with my mother, so wasn’t exactly a carefree day of leisure.

19 June 2005: Growing

There’s something quite pleasing about eating something you’ve grown and you simply can’t beat the taste of freshly picked herbs in your food

19 June 2005: Applicant

Some time ago the BBC redid it’s jobs site, and it’s rather handy cos you can save all your details on the site. Once you’ve inputted all your data in the first time, you can re-use it (and edit it if desired).

19 June 2005: What’s The Scam?

Most of my emails are spam sadly. I get far too much of it, but nestling inside the mortgage offers, people presuming I need some pills to get it up, messages from someone called Julie about her webcam, and a barrage of emails about all the email addresses I’ve supposedly added to my ebay account, came this one about buying my domain name.

19 June 2005: Heat

I don’t do this weather. I melt. Slowly and surely.

16 June 2005: Doctor… Can’t… Wait…

Less than 2 days to go now…

16 June 2005: Crossing The NTL Bridge

NTL’s customers in the Langley region got our new look BBCi just over a month ago. Well on BBC One and BBC Two anyway. Until yesterday when they finally got the almost full suite with all the other BBC channels now having access to BBCi when the user presses their red button. Except on BBC Parliament - technical problem or somet.

16 June 2005: Defrag

There was a time when I used to rifle through my Windows looking for redundant .ini files, or unnecessary log files. Anything to give my hard drive some more space. And I’d diligently defrag it once a month to get that perfomance boost.

16 June 2005: Alas Poor Toric, I Knew Him Well

Sorry, you can blame Kirk for that title, but today the torric contact lens went back. Well actually not the original - I gave up on that pretty quickly - but a second type of torric contact lens.

13 June 2005: Willow The Wisp

Willow The Wisp is to return. Long live The Moog!

12 June 2005: Doctor Who

Unbelievably I haven’t mentioned Doctor Who yet. This coming from a man whose favourite programme when growing up featured a blue police box and a sonic screwdriver.

8 June 2005: No R and no D for me

Every year the BBC’s R&D department holds a host of open days in their lovely base in Kingswood Warren, to let people know what they get up to. And every year I get myself booked onto one of the open days. Every year I manage to miss them.

7 June 2005: Oh To See! To See!

Bar a brief dalliance with them on Saturday when I had a trip to the opticians, I’ve not worn my contact lenses for almost a week, whilst I wait for another type of lens to appear, for me to try.

6 June 2005: Teletext on ITV

Today saw the end of one of the great usability problems of digital text. Yes, you can now press the TEXT button on ITV1 and something actually happens.

2 June 2005: BBC New Media brands

Having had a few similar conversations on this recently…

1 June 2005: To Toric or Not To Toric

After visiting the opticians the other day, I was given a new toric lens to try and counter the affects of a minor astigmatism in my eye. Or that’s the theory. In practise, it seems to have made the problems I’ve been having with eye strain recently have just got ten times worse.

1 June 2005: Feed Changes

Those of you using the Atom or RSS feed might have noticed that I’m now sending through 25 items - quite a sizable increase on the 8 I was sending through before.

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