Does anyone want any of the following? It all works to a degree.

• 2x small computer desks with keyboard shelves - one good one poor condition
  
• Shallow chest of drawers
  
• 2'4" square white Melamine coffee table
  
• 2 1x 14" analog CRT TVs
  
• 4 slice toaster
  
• Microwave (interior light needs replacing, possibly on the way out; had to reset power to get it ( Read more... )

..mostly from LifeHacker:

• Firefox 4 is out folks. It's noticably faster, but if installing over the top of FF3, my recommendation is either don't upgrade or if you do upgrade, consider resetting the preferences as the UI is quite different and really requires setting up from scratch to allow you to make the best use of the new features.
• Ninite - a ( Read more... )

http://www.grooveshark.com/

It's like spotify, but web/flash based. And end users can upload music (which means just about anything you want is there). And there's a client that works natively on my n900 (groove in test/dev repos). And it's free (unless you want advanced features ( Read more... )

I'm at sessifet25's now. Unfortunately I forgot the VGA to DVI converter to allow me to use my desktop machine with sessifet25's old monitor, and I wasn't paying the £21 for one from PC World for a few days, so I'm stuck using my little laptop. No shiny games for me.. bah ( Read more... )

But facial recognition is coming to the mainstream (see my post of nearly 4 years ago). It's not quite 'searchable' yet (thankfully), because Facebook currently places restrictions on tagging photos. But then we all know how good Facebook's record on privacy controls is, and I suspect it wouldn't take much for someone to aggregate the data and ( Read more... )

My car's power steering broke recently. Took it to a garage who quoted 2 hours labour and 160 quid for the Lexus power steering cooling pipe, plus as the pump was most likely gone as well, 3 hours labour (no, they can't be combined as they're in different places) and 695 quid for a new pump. Pattern parts aren't available for those bits either ( Read more... )

Like a good citizen I told my new car insurers about the incident I had relatively recently, despite not having heard anything from the 3rd party on the matter. The new insurers have to take this at worst case to protect themselves, meaning I've now got an 'at fault' claim against me and my premium has increased by half again. There doesn't appear ( Read more... )

Well, I'm at sessifet25's now, which always makes things seem better ( Read more... )

An idea to enhance our understanding of what is real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28idea_lab%29#Is_this_real.3F

What do you think?

Agencies are starting to call me now with reasonable regularity, and there are roles that are pretty suited to me coming up in the local area more regularly now. Hopefully it won't be long before I'm able to join the ranks of the gainfully employed again ( Read more... )