http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk for the terminally deranged Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:26:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That I'm an "old man" in computing terms these days. Why? Well...I was sat in the office earlier, watching a younger colleague play Lemmings for Dos. Complaints about the graphics, how do I up the resolution, is this a Tandy or a high performance PC and so on were ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/30/it-occurs-to-me/ Getting a virus on the PC is NOT nice. What IS nice is being a techie. Oh no..mad system tray warnings!! Popups!! Popups!! Porn!! Argh. Should I panic? Swear and curse? Ah, the hell with it. Machine off, restart into second hard disk running Vista. ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/22/shall-i-tell-you-whats-nice/ Yep, I'm not feeling on top of my game today. Not at all. I spent part of the day updating our build images...I slipstreamed in another 24 (ba$tard) windows updates, and made some scripty tweaking goodness that enables hibernation, and does a whole lot of other funky ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/21/arghh-tosswankbollocks/ We walked into town earlier, as we do..it's the "good exersize" way to go and top up the gas/electricity, and munch on a cake at the same point. However, I was feeling a bit meh..so I let Jem go and do the tedious standing bit, and I went and stood out ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/19/beware-the-local-shop/ Where did that go? Monday was Professional Development (No kids), Wednesday was "all day parents evening", so I've only really worked Tuesday and today..that'd explain it. Weekend starts tomorrow! No idea what I've got to do. I've cleaned in here, reshelved it all and got the room straight..needs ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/17/has-it-really-been-almost-a-week-already/ That's putting it nicely. After a few days painting, and a day driving 40ish miles I decided on the eve of my returning to work to have a bath. I have accrued a lot of aches..some usual to me due to my disability, some doubtless down to the work I've ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/06/i-feel-like-a-total-willie-head/ This is fun...I now have half of the smallest bedroom (computer room) painted magnolia..the rest is either pinky-purple (yuk), or wallpapered in green teddybear wallpaper. I started on this yesterday, after having a DIY attack. I regrouted a section of the kitchen floor, then decided I'd try and ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/04/more-painting/ I thought someone was playing an April Fools joke earlier, I really did.. ..I went into work at..1ish, came home at 4, and Hex was all wound up. I looked into the back garden thinking Mr Scruffy (neighbourhood cat) was back, and almost fell over in shock.. The end of our paved ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/04/01/what-the-fuck-fetch-the-damned-shotgun-chavscum-ahoy/ WordPress should have now successfully upgraded... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/03/31/upgrade/ Well, this is fun.. I decided to see if changing my wifi card would help with the freezing issue. So I gave my mum the nice wireless-G card, and swapped if for our old faithful Wireless-B. Well, all hell broke loose. After enduring too many sudden BSOD in both ... http://sirbendy.jemjabella.co.uk/2008/03/30/hmm-5/