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Two

This blog is two years old. Happy birthday blog

Mini off life support

My Mac Mini had drive trouble some time ago and I ‘fixed’ it by booting off an external drive. This has been most acceptable for the last 15 months or so, but recently, with a rejig of media stuff in the living room, I thought it would be nice to have the mini working properly off its own disk. I read more..

Cutting edge (ish)

Five or six years ago, we had fairly cutting edge A/V set-up in our living room. A brand new (and v expensive) Panasonic 42″ plasma panel - one of the best panels money could buy at the time, hooked up to a Sky digibox via SyncBlaster and a Sony digital 5.1 amp and DVD player. Fast forward read more..

2008

About this time last year I wrote this, a review of 2007. In the same style, here comes a review of 2008. I started the year employed, for a company called Lehman Brothers, and clearly that didn’t last out the whole year. Barclays bought the US bit of Lehman after the bankruptcy, and Nomura eventually bought out read more..

Cold water

Our water heater thingy packed up today. Or rather, it was boiling away, filling the cupboard with steam and splashed water and the top tank lid was bouncing around. My guess is a broken thermostat or something. Anyway, I turned it all off and called a plumber, who will arrive tomorrow sometime. In the mean time, no read more..

Eating again

After being on a weird diet for the last couple of weeks, I’ve started to eat more and with a bit more variety. In particular, I managed something resembling a normal Christmas dinner, some lovely biscuits made by my sister and even a couple of half-glasses of wine. No major ill effects so far, so it’s read more..

Visiting

Today, we’re going to visit family. Specifically, my mum and step-dad in Gloucestershire and on the way, picking up my sister (Tooting) and my older brother (Molesey). Nothing unusual about this I suppose, except I don’t get to see family very often. I haven’t seen my mum since May, and my sister in over a year, I read more..

Blimey

I gained 0.5kg. No idea how that happened

Cold

Gaaah! I’ve managed to survive so far this season without getting the lurgy. Now have woken up with a serious sniffle and due to my other condition, can’t take most cold medicines. Joy!

Things I currently can’t eat

In my current condition, I cannot consume: alcohol black and red pepper chillis caffeine chocolate/cocoa tomatoes fatty foods anything fried onions garlic cinnamon cloves peppermint and more… But basically, beer and curry is right out, as is coffee and chocolate brownies. What superb timing! I’ve adjusted this blog’s tag line until things are sorted.