Misc archive

Impressed By Dell Customer Support

After giving a grace period of a couple of days in case the issue was not hardware based, I called Dell on Thursday last week about my slightly iffy “t” key. I can’t say as I was looking forward to it — support from any company often ranges from useless to totally wank — but… read full entry »


I am SO cold

Please tell me it’s not bloody Autumn already!


Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Nan turned 25 yesterday. She felt sad because it’s “half way to 50”, so I tried to cheer her up… I’m guessing it worked to some degree because she posted a beautiful entry today on all of the things she has to be thankful for in her life. Of course, this got me thinking about… read full entry »

meh

I feel tired, lazy, apathetic even… how are you feeling?


Growing out of McDonalds

As a kid I always loved McDonald’s. Didn’t get the opportunity to go very often because Mum generally refused to let us eat “that shit” but when I was invited to a birthday party there, or something like that.. you bet I’d scoff that food down. As a student, due to the locality of the… read full entry »


The Strangest Thing

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen while walking/driving down the road? See, being a place of interest my little village gets a lot of weirdos and other fascinating visitors… but driving home after feeding the guinea pig last night I certainly didn’t expect to see an armoured personnel carrier with tank-style tracks heading in my… read full entry »


500 Harry Potter fans

Based on the dip in my hits yesterday, I’m assuming at least 500 of you are Harry Potter fans?


Free Syswear T-Shirt

I contacted Syswear yesterday and they’ve agreed to let me give away my latest free t-shirt — to one of you guys — that’s any t-shirt from their range of quality geek and gamer t-shirts for absolutely nothing. Entrance is simple, all you have do to is comment once on this entry with the words… read full entry »


My Day Off

I am having my Friday off tomorrow (don’t normally work Fridays but haven’t taken any off for months) and am not sure what I should do. I was originally planning on taking a walk to the local town (Ironbridge — look it up, it’s famous) to take some piccies and maybe buy some over-priced tourist… read full entry »