Archive for July, 2010

  • Gas, Electricity, Water, Council Tax all sorted. Letting agent inspected old flat. Removal firm confirmed and paid. Getting there… #fb #
  • … It seems that Virgin Media are the only cable company to cover the area. Any opinions on them? #
  • … which sucks, so getting Internet via cable seems sensible. Which logically means getting TV via cable as well … #
  • There's a phone line and cable and a satellite dish. None of which are active. There's no aerial. Max broadband speed in the area is 5Mb … #
  • Bitter Shandy – the taste of summer #fb #
  • Moving firm gave us 10 small + 10 large boxes. "Most" of the DVDs fill one small box. And we have 10x more books than DVDs. Hmmmm… #fb #
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  • How long before I get used to the new BBC News web site? Logically I can see things that are better but emotionally – "Change! Waaaah!" #fb #
  • Carpet on top of laminate flooring on top of hardboard on top of the floorboards. WTF? All needs to come up to get at the wiring. Sigh #fb #
  • So, to let the electrician into the new house at 7:30am tomorrow. I need to be awake and leaving the old house at WTF o'clock! #
  • House. Completed. Have keys. Have quote for rewiring. Have date for moving. Lots of cleaning to do. Timescales tight. Knackered. Happy. #fb #
  • I'm in ur CSS, over riding ur selectors !important is serius biznis #
  • This is some very ugly CSS. I'm deep into specificity conflicts between the 10 stylesheets that someone else saw fit to include in the page. #
  • OFFS. The words "work" and "home" really trigger the spam bots don't they? #
  • Once every 2-3 months I need to do proper graphics work at home. Is that enough to justify the cost of Photoshop? 'cos I'm hating GIMP. #fb #
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  • VLAD lives! #
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