I saw an article at The Register about Energy Buster . I must say at first reading it seemed like a fantastic idea to be able to terminate all the stuff around the house which is on standby, but the more I thought about it, it seemed to me that we would need quite a […]
General
Letters Home
Letters Home is a series of half hour programmes on Radio 4 at 9.30am in which immigrants offer their impressions of Britain. I bumped in to one the other week and found it fascinating, and have just read the feature about this today’s From Manchester with love
Midnight Caller
I trod on one the other night. 🙁
News from Suffolk
MASS balloon launches have been banned across Suffolk Not Any More. (Ipswich) borough’s leisure spokeswoman, Judy Terry, who works in the marketing industry, said she would be advising her clients against using balloon launches after reading about the environmental damage they can cause….. the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) .. is worried that latex balloons are […]
Primary school pupils miss all government targets
“Four out of ten pupils could not read, write and add up properly by the time they left primary school this summer, the Government said yesterday.” Times Online Really, it seems to me that it is about time we admitted that the school system doesn’t work. I am not necessarily saying that schools could not […]
It Is Green
Jax disagrees with me. She thinks this is blue. It is clearly green. Sadly, both our children have inherited her colour blindness.
Simpsonised Me
(Thanks Sarah)
Satnav
The driver of a £96k Mercedes SL500 had a lucky escape after her satnav directed her down a winding track and straight into the River Sence. more… (The Register) Could have been worse, she might have been using Google Maps to route her from Felixstowe to Bawdsey*. *Now fixed and rerouted through Woodbridge.
After the flood
Jax blogged about our shopping expotition. She didn’t mention that we went to Meadowhall, which is still recovering from the flooding. Pictures At the Star Quite a while ago, I forget quite when, my posh Sony K800i mobile phone died on me. So I got a PAYG replacement, another Sony but a much lower range […]
JkDefrag
Promised a link to this to the Beans. Here it is:- JkDefrag v3.8 Why is this a good idea….. The Great Defrag Shootout VIII: JkDefrag v3.8 also mentions PageDefrag, which is another jolly good, free thing.