Apple has recently polished up it’s Safari for Windows browser codebase into some less reminiscent of an alpha-hackfest (much like it was when i tried their original release on a clean vista machine some months back) and have now slipped it in below the radar on many people’s machines as an automatic download/update on iTunes [...]

I’m most definitely not one of those ‘black helicopters’, Areas51 conspiracy theorist-types however the new that some of the worlds largest printer manufacturers have had a document tracking protocol foisted on them by the US staggers me… This from elReg details the broad-brush picture of the  problem. And this great bit of work explains the [...]

When you’re unhappy about something why are you said to “disgruntled” ? Shouldn’t you be “gruntled” instead ? In the same way you talk someone out of an idea, you “disabuse” them of the notion. Hmmm..needs more thought that one I think !

So do you know why the financial markets are currently in turmoil ? Do you understand what a CDO is or how it’s been used in the traditional mortgage market ? All people see on TV are the soundbite voxpops from the man in the street….”it’s gunna make it harder to pay off your credit [...]

As if further proof were needed…in the annals of history how many men and women have presented themselves half-cut to ‘get ink’ ? And how many go wrong wrong wrong !!! This is a shame but one can’t help a degree of schadenfreude ! You really ought not to laugh…much ;0)

‘S been a funny couple of weeks. My daughter reached her 1st birthday (OMFG ! When did the someone sneak in and abscond with the last year thank you soooo very much !?) We had parentals from both sides visit and had a nice lunch out together, then party with great birthday cake courtesy of [...]

  …I am coulrophobic.   I once spent a week in Switzerland snowboarding with Z. We stayed in a nice hotel slightly out of the main village, quiet and understated, rode all day, wandered about in the evenings for a few beers and ate most evenings in the hotel. But the single most disturbing thing [...]

Things to make happen in 2006: #1: Be around for Z & M as much as possible. Finish all the little snagging jobs around the house before starting anything else ! Try and surf more [hard as I'm at work all day and it doesn't always come up when I'm at home ?!] Motivate myself [...]

This little snippet caught my eye…Once I’d wiped the screen down and lowered my voice from the raving levels it had reached while reading, I settled down to try and understand some of the implications of ‘ID’ and it’s propagation as an alternative to Evolutionary theory. [Adopts yorkshire accent, hooks thumbs into imaginary braces and [...]

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