Three hours trying to get Charlie’s PC to connect to the internet tonight, with no success. For some reason it just will not load the drivers for his wireless LAN after I uninstalled it.  I suspect something happened during a Windows update. Mind you, all those DIVX programmes, Limewire, dozens of toolbars and other rubbish […]
Entries from July 29th, 2009
Oh ye of little faith
July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on Oh ye of little faith · Life
There is something wrong here. It says: CHURCHES in the Horsham district have suspended part of the Holy Communion ritual due to fears over spreading swine flu. Hmm.  Isn’t the whole point of religion that it is irrational, so that it is only possible to believe of you make huge leaps of faith?  Maybe the […]
To tweet or not to tweet?
July 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Technology
The new phone has all sorts of features. Most of them are defined by initials, some of which I understand but many I don’t. It has wi-fi, GPS, 3G, DLNA, UMTS, HSUPA and HSDP for a start. For all I know it has LOL and NSFW too. One thing I do know is that the […]
No surprises
July 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Music
I was listening to Planet Rock while shaving the bonce and showering tonight and it struck me how complicit they are in perpetuating the syndrome whereby most of us only know a single song by fairly prolific artists.  I have recently been using Spotify to explore the hinterland of such bands: listening to Blue Oyster […]
