'k, so windows 7 looks good on the laptop, which is pretty low-spec for running same.  Moreover, it's a better rip than some, in that updates work.  I assume it's an OEM licence number... or possibly a corporate one ( Read more... )

I thought I'd have a play.  Since I'm not into spending several hundred dollars on something which may well turn out not to be what I want, I went a-hunting in torrentland, and downloaded one ( Read more... )

In National Geogrpahic's new "green" mag ( Read more... )

It was the night before Christmas... actually, no it wasn't. It was about this time of year, a week or so before Christmas, and I was reading stuff on 365 tomorrows and was inspired to write the following short, which I submitted, but they rejected no doubt because by the time they'd got around to it Christmas had passed. The same applies this ( Read more... )

satnav, version 7 ( Read more... )

I see T-mobile are offering a free (quite decent spec) laptop with their mobile "broadband" deal, for what looks like a not-bad price when you factor in the cost of such a laptop even second-hand (30 quid a month for 2 years, so £720 total. OK, more than the cost of the laptop, obviously. But the same spec laptop second hand is probably over £200 ( Read more... )

Not mine, this time. Replacement Discovery for mother, N plate and in pretty good nick. I've no doubt we will discover the various little "features" in due course, mind.

I bought christmas booze in Waitrose ( Read more... )

Last week, I received an HID headlamp conversion kit for to put on one of the motors. One of the ballast units is DOA and as a result, only one lamp works ( Read more... )

that there be ONE day when it doesn't sodding well rain!!?

If I wanted monsoons, I'd go and live in India, fer feck's sake.