New Toy – Advent 4211 Netbook

Not much at the moment, but my new toy is Advent 4211 Netbook. It is basically a re-badged MSI Wind but for less than the MSI version!

August 9th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Topical, WiFi | Comments are closed

Snow!

Strange white stuff fell overnight!

As you can see, we had about 3 inches of snow overnight and at the time the picture was taken, it was still snowing. Unfortunately most of it had gone by the afternoon.

April 6th, 2008 | Category: Photo Messages, Topical | Comments are closed

New ticket barriers for London Paddington

These are being installed across platforms 10 to 14, leaving only platforms 6 to 9 without barriers. 6 and 7 are the Heathrow connect service so they don’t matter. my usual evening train leaves from 8 so no barriers there. however my morning train arrives on 10 so I expect huge queues to get [...]

March 6th, 2008 | Category: Photo Messages, Topical | Comments are closed

FON – Community Wifi for free

I’d been looking at FON for a while now and decided to initially register as an Alien to see what its all about, then decided to take the plunge and order my own La Fonera, their own router, based on OpenWRT software. The basic idea is that you install the route, register it and [...]

March 2nd, 2008 | Category: Linux, Topical, WiFi | Comments are closed

Happy New Year

says it all really!

January 1st, 2008 | Category: Topical | Comments are closed

Argos website cant cope with traffic

Looks like all the online xmas shoppers have brought the Argos website to its knees. Looked like a temporary glitch, was all fixed in about 30 minutes.

November 20th, 2007 | Category: Photo Messages, Topical | Comments are closed

Not very green

This is the queue of traffic waiting to get into my local recycling centre. Traffic is queued in both directions blocking the road for quite a distance. This is enough to put anyone off recycling!

After a death at my local recycling centre earlier in the year it has re-opened with drastically reduced [...]

November 5th, 2007 | Category: Photo Messages, Topical | Comments are closed

All I got was….

I went to the British Museum and all I got was this Terracotta warrior from China!! And the rather expensive book of the exhibition.

Friday evening I went along to the First Emperor exhibition at the British Museum. I got there about 50 minutes before my ticket time to check out the [...]

September 29th, 2007 | Category: Anything Else, Photo Messages, Topical | Comments are closed

British Museum – The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army

I’m going to see The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army at the British Museum on Friday evening after work. I booked my ticket a week before the exhibition opened and there were plenty of tickets available but I’ve looked today and its almost fully booked right up to the end of its run in [...]

September 25th, 2007 | Category: Topical | Comments are closed

Fitness to Practice :: Home of the London Underground song

In view of the current disruption caused by the lazy London Underground staff, this seems rather approriate this week: Fitness to Practice :: Home of the London Underground song

Warning, dont listen if easily offended by bad language and swearing, or you happen to work (if you can call it that) for London Underground.

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September 4th, 2007 | Category: Anything Else, Topical | Comments are closed
 
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