Monthly Archives: January 2008

We’re Having a Little Spot of Weather…

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Val

….indeed, it was so gusty last night that it kept me awake. The windows and doors were rattling and it sounded like soggy sheep were being randomly tossed against our walls. It was almost totally dark as well, with only … Continue reading →

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Tuen Me On, Jeezuz…

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Val

Oh dear. Sometimes, you wonder why people don’t see the obvious… Apparently this is a genuine lightswitch sold to devoted Catholics, and not photoshopped. From Pharyngula:

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More ‘puter Woes…

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Val

I got the PC started up this morning – then, when I went looking for a file on the 2nd hard drive, which I keep for backup – couldn’t find it. The drive, that is. It wasn’t showing up in … Continue reading →

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Gah…

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Val

…computer woes… I was going to write a post to say how pleased I’d been today by a couple of things. First, I installed Xampplite and, after a couple of hours sorting out various bugs, got it fully installed as … Continue reading →

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Hot From….

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Val

….the laptop. Yes, I’m blogging from my laptop! Not actually from choice, though. My monitor finally died last week; I hooked the desktop PC into B’s gigantic 21″ monster (since he didn’t have any immediate work to do), and everything … Continue reading →

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Top 100 Fundie Quotes

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Val

Courtesy of the Pagan Prattle, a list of Christian fundamentalist idiocy, collected from forums and chatgroups. Here’s a sample: Gravity: Doesn’t exist. If items of mass had any impact of others, then mountains should have people orbiting them. Or the … Continue reading →

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All Change…..

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Val

We’re reorganising things around the house this week. The main change is that B is moving his computer and the big printer into the office upstairs, while I’m moving down to the table in the hall. It makes sense – … Continue reading →

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Here it is….

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Val

Teh shiny! My council-dump find, all spiffed up with a new OS and updated drivers. Runs fine (if a little slow). Can’t figure out why anyone would have wanted to toss it.

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All wired up….

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Val

… and got the laptop working. Getting around the password was a doddle once I had the right bit of equipment. The contents were singularly unexciting – it seems to have been used as some sort of work computer, but … Continue reading →

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Down the Dump….

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Val

…we went yesterday, to virtuously dispose of our accumulated plastic, cardboard and bottles. While we were slinging bottles into the banks, I noticed a laptop bag sitting on top of the adjacent (overflowing) electronics bin. I took a peek inside … Continue reading →

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