Brakes been tested, and front ones need replacing, as expected. Front tyres also down to minimum level (again, semi-expected), so are being replaced. Whole job coming to £170, which is about right, from what I can gather - brake pads+disks, including fitting were estimated at £200 for all 4, so £110 is within tolerance, and £60 for 2 tyres isn't ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6176235.stm

The names I gave in the comment on that page aren't the real ones. The real ones are below - the descriptions are fictional, or, at least, based only on appearances.

The Quiet Woman
She doesn't always read Lake Wobegon Days, ( Read more... )

Bill Bryson has been made an Honorary OBE ( Read more... )

Another day at home, mainly because didn't get to sleep til 3 am yesterday...
Hopefully be back in work tomorrow, as am going cabin crazy being stuck here all the time.

Everything has been conspiring to piss me off this evening. Now feeling really stressed and angry and down all at the same time.

Had enough. Want to punch holes in the walls and smash everything.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6210068.stmRead more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6205642.stmRead more... )

OK, I know some schools aren't very wonderful, but is sending the army in with snipers and tanks really going to help. BBC News says yes: "Army 'targeting poorer schools ( Read more... )

I want to be able to pull the title of the latest entry from each category within a given section in the CMS we are using. The relevant table structure is (there are other columns, but they contain data that isn't related to this query, eg. creator, last modified timestamp, the article content ( Read more... )

I was going to put up a results post about the poll earlier, but the power decided to cut out, again ( Read more... )