November 20, 2008 – 11:21
…last night. The phone rang, the display showing a mobile number. I picked it up and a mechanical voice started reading out gobbleygook. It sounded like random characters, no recognisable words (apart from what sounded like ‘troll’), with a great many “semi-colon”s and “zero”s.
I eventually worked out that somebody was text-messaging our [...]
November 19, 2008 – 21:14
Getting off Verapamil wasn’t so easy as it appeared. It’s thankfully gone now, but for the last three days, I had a continual headache; looking at various medical sites, it fitted all the signs of a Tension Headache - slightly stiff neck, runny nose, getting worse through the day. And I’ve been [...]
November 17, 2008 – 16:35
I’ve taken myself off the Verapamil tablets; six months is long enough to try it out, and it really wasn’t doing me a lot of good. The main problem was that it made me fuzzy-headed all the time; I couldn’t think very well and everything felt ‘flat’ and dull. It was the [...]
November 16, 2008 – 15:31
I have finally got Linux installed on the old laptop, and am now able to blog from anywhere in the house - at the moment, I am comfortably ensconced on the sofa.
Having all but given up on the idea, after having so many failures, I discovered Puppy Linux. This runs on [...]
November 12, 2008 – 16:06
OK, I’m a sucker for competitions. There’s one running at the mo to find the “coolest” Wordpress blog.
Irritatingly, the organisers don’t give any indication of what they regard as “cool”. So I can suppose that it’s all a matter of opinion and that this blog has as good a chance as any of [...]
Just been out to fill up a bucket of coal for the night. And the Moon is looking gorgeous - nearly full and high in the sky, surrounded by hazy clouds with a hint of a full-circle rainbow.
I tried to take a photo, but my camera is so crappy that all I got [...]
For me, the big event of the day was an exact astrological opposition between Uranus and Saturn. So I’ve avoided getting involved in any celestial pile-ups by spending my time at the pooter, struggling to get to grips with Joomla. My long-awaited Building Websites With Joomla 1.5 arrived last week, but I was [...]
Went to bed last night thinking that all i had to do today was get the Astrological Association Diary up to date and upload it.
This morning, on waking, I remembered that I still had to do the online version of Transit. Somehow, I’d completely forgotten that - hadn’t even started it. So today, I’ve [...]
The rain stopped this morning, for a brief time, and me & B took advantage and drove out into a nearby forest.
A couple of weeks ago, Son had been to a small outdoor rave there. It was a beautiful spot, he told us, by a loch, surrounded by forest. It sounded attractive, so [...]
From LJ Antitheism via BJSurvivor:
I am the LORD thy GOd and I give you these Ten Commandments:
1. I am He that brought you out of Egypt (like in the movie), You shall not returneth to Egypt, nor shall you think that the Pyramids are “cool,” “nifty,” or “symbolic.” That would [...]
Thought-provoking article in Wired.
Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first place. If we’re ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place,,,,
,,,Terrorists, he writes, (1) attack civilians, a policy that [...]
September 25, 2008 – 19:15
Well, it’s been quiet lately around here. Getting on with the gardening, though I’m in danger of overdoing things. Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours battling the hugely overgrown honeysuckle in the front garden. I started with the naive belief that I would merely have to find a couple or three [...]
September 18, 2008 – 14:43
Well, it’s finally stopped raining - I’ve done no gardening done since Sunday. Didn’t manage any gardening yesterday, probably won’t do any today either - yesterday I got my new hard drive and spent the whole day just installing everything; I’m still dont finished, still got to copy over all my music and pictures, [...]
Yesterday was a frustrating day.
B had to go to Dumfries in the afternoon to get his cataracts assessed; we had shopping to do, the appointment was at three, and he had to bet back to a driving job in the early evening. So, with time being tight, we set off early. B [...]
For the last few weeks our Citroen has been playing up - when cornering and going over humps, the back ends ‘flips’ a little out of line. I can’t feel this, but it was making B very nervous.
After doing some internet research and poring over the Haynes manual, B decided that it needed specialist [...]
