What I learned today was something which saved me a lot of grief with my computer. I put the hard drive from the old PC in the new one as a slave drive and copied everything across, but a few directories would not copy. I kept getting an ‘Access Denied’ message on the ‘My Documents’ […]
Entries from November 23rd, 2006
Compliments from a Tory?
November 23rd, 2006 · 35 Comments · Politics
I think it was meant to be a snide remark from Councillor Crow at tonight’s extraordinary council meeting about council housing transfer, but really its a compliment. He was referring to the packed and vocal public gallery and said that not everyone was a council tenant and that he had never seen so many ex-Labour […]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Council·Housing·Tories
New computers
November 23rd, 2006 · 9 Comments · Technology
No matter how much better a new computer is than the old one in terms of storage, memory, speed, etc. there always seems to be as much pain as there is pleasure in getting it up and running. The first thing to do with a new PC is obviously to take it apart before even […]
Tags: Computing
Small country
November 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Small country · Life
What I learned today: The population of Iceland is about the same as the population of Coventry – both are around the 304,000 level.
Tags: Statistics·WILT
Don’t mention the war!
November 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
The cod war that is. Seriously though: I, for one, welcome our new Icelandic overlords. (*) For a start, they are not the Kia Joorabchian-Eli Papouchaldo-Boris Berezovsky/Platon Elenin consortium. Eggert Magnusson and Bjorgolfor Gudmundsson do seem to be genuinely interested and enthusiastic about football. One clue is that the other lot were rumoured to have […]
Well Hung
November 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on Well Hung · Life
Last week’s concluding part of Tim Marlow‘s guide to the re-hang at the Tate Modern prompted me to go and have a look, as I realised that I had not actually been in the galleries since the re-hang. The last couple of times I went to the place I was looking at the building, Rachel […]
Tags: Art·London·Photos·Tate Modern
Computer still dead…
November 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on Computer still dead… · Technology
Despite trying a couple of things at the suggestion of the timelord guru blogger up in Stratford-on-Avon the PC still refuses to function. Not his fault, I think it is beyond help so I shall have to reluctantly go out and get something newer and better. I have to persuade Jayne that I didn’t deliberately […]
Nightclubs and immigration
November 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
I like Brighton. I enjoy visiting the place. But knowing that I am not welcome in one of its clubs, even though I probably wouldn’t go there anyway, just because of where I live, makes me like the place just a little less. Its not right that I should feel a little bit more hostile […]
Tags: Brighton·Crawley·Immigration
Nightclubs – PS
November 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on Nightclubs – PS · Life
The Creation nightclub in Brighton has had a chequered past with more financial crises than Crawley Town FC, but a year ago it was bought up by a company called Luminar, who own many other nightclubs – including the Liquid club next to Crawley station… I would threaten to boycott the Liquid club until Creation […]
Can they do that?
November 20th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Life
Apparently I am banned from a nightclub called Creation in Brighton, but its nothing personal: the other 99,999 residents of Crawley have also been banned, according to a story in The Argus. The door staff at Creation say that banning everyone from Crawley has resulted in less crime and trouble there. This may or may […]
