Yesterday I saw a poster at Waterloo station to promote a new album by Jools Holland. Towards the bottom of the poster is a very prominent box which says something like “See the TV advert featuring VIC REEVES at www.someaddress.or.other” So we have a printed poster advertising a TV advert? Is that what you call […]
Entries from November 23rd, 2006
Deed Polls
November 23rd, 2006 · 6 Comments · Life
Last week Jayne and I went to the website for the UK Deed Poll Service and changed her nephew’s name for him – with his knowledge obviously. It was all terribly easy, and not very expensive either. Certainly a lot cheaper than getting personalised number plates for the car. (I think we can all see […]
Safe Mode
November 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off on Safe Mode · Technology
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’ […]
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
