An Armalite and a colour printer
Today is Budget Day. I am not particularly worried and am almost looking forward to the challenge. It saddens [and slightly nauseates] me when I hear people saying things like they don’t mind paying...
View ArticleOverpowering
Modern electrical plugs really piss me off. Who was the bright spark who came up with the idea of sticking a transformer in the plug itself? Did they not realise that those plugs have virtually...
View ArticleGetting high on speed
Many many years ago I managed to persuade my boss to let me work from home. This was in the days before the Interweb had ever been heard of, so it was unheard of for a computer programmer to work …...
View ArticleHolidays
It’s that time of year to start contemplating a spot of a holiday. For the last two years, we toddled over the water to France. The plan is not to go again this year. There are a couple of reasons …...
View ArticleThe Lost Weekend
It has been one of those weekends. It all started innocently enough when myself and a few of the neighbours went down the pub for a few scoops of a Friday night. You know yourself how it is when the …...
View ArticleAn abuse of power
We had one of those electrical fellas around yesterday. I mentioned before how we had been having a little problem with fuses blowing all over the shop, so I thought it was time to let someone else...
View ArticleFar from the Madding Crowd
I like to amuse myself with wee mental exercises. It keeps the old grey cells reasonably active, while I still have a few left. I’m not talking about crosswords [boring], chess [tedious], Sudoku [puts...
View ArticleTechnophobia at last
I am beginning to feel old. Up until now I have prided myself on being able to get by with all the electronic gizmos that are thrown at me. I knew one end of a computer from another, could heat …...
View ArticleA very simple question
Can someone help me out here? There is a little aspect of gubmint that has me baffled. The news here for the last few days has been full of protests at the cuts in the health system which of course …...
View ArticleThe Wrinkly Ambassador
Every now and then I get an email. Well, actually I get lots of emails and they can keep their Viagra, their Russian brides and their Nigerian millions, but some mails are genuine and quite often they...
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