You may have noticed that this website has taken on a new look.  There’s a reason for this. In the past I’ve used strange, esoteric software to create my websites – the last one was made using something called GreyMatter.  While this works OK, it’s not as flexible and powerful as some of the more [...]

I’ve just got off the ‘phone with Roofing Group UK, and just about managed to keep my cool – it would appear that the “boss” is on holiday in Spain, and won’t be back until the end of September. Only then will he deign to look at my leaking roof. I’ve pointed out that this [...]

Today has most certainly not gone well. Aside from the roofers continued lack of communication, there’s another joy to add to my overflowing pot – and it concerns my door. I got up this morning bright and early, eager to trundle off to work. Shower, dress, breakfast – all is going according to plan. I [...]

Well, I just got a very rude awakening about an hour ago – a leak in my extremely expensive new roof causing water to drip down from the ceiling in my computer room, all over my not-inexpensive collection of crap. For joy. The problem, as far as I can ascertain in the dark, is caused [...]

Well, I couldn’t wait until Sunday – so I’ve pieced the RiscPC back together and fired it up… And it works absolutely perfectly. Turns out it’s actually a Zip 250, which is nice – and all the insides work splendidly. The keyboard I recovered at the same time is shot, sadly, but it’s just a [...]

Walking home through the business park where my current day job is located the other day, I spied a skip with a rather interesting device sticking out of the top – an Acorn RiscPC. A nice one, too – a double slice unit. Further inspection revealed an Iomega Zip 100 drive, a 52x CD-ROM, and [...]

Well, I’ve been lax in updating this ‘ere site – but with good reason. My new job is keeping me extremely busy, and conspires with my commitments to bit-tech to keep me away from anything that might resemble free time. Case in point – on Tuesday, I travelled to London to attend a training course [...]

Well, I’ve survived the first day of my new job. Everyone seems really nice, and there’s certainly plenty to keep me busy. Between a full audit of software and hardware, the installation and configuration of an internal WSUS server, and sundry other tasks it looks like I’ll be kept out of trouble for the foreseeable [...]