Category: Personal

The dog collects yet another one, while Derek Junior still has to work out how to put his on … [image no longer available]

I spent a fair few hours last month fixing problems on relatives PCs. It’s always the way, isn’t it? Once people know ‘you work with computers‘, you become a PC expert! Anyway, one of the trickier problems was with my old (well, only about 14 months old) laptop that I’ve passed over to Mads. Performance… Continue reading Laptop Performance Problem

Just fire it right in.

What’s going on? Prince doesn’t seem part of the Openworld line-up any more! Has he turned back into a symbol? Billy Joel? What’s even worse is that I haven’t been to Openworld for seven years and when I decide to go back, it’s Lenny ****** Kravitz again! Even ‘The English Beat’ were on that year!… Continue reading Wot, no Prince?

Well, I’m not sure that attending a wedding in Belgium last weekend is truly being on holiday but we had such a nice weekend that it felt like it and one of the Greece jokes sort of continued. Kurt the Dude guy and Els were kind enough to invite Mads and I to their wedding.… Continue reading How to holiday (4)

In my experience, all of the best holidays require a running joke or two. I don’t mean an entertaining anecdote about the exercising masses, but something that crops up early in the holiday and provides amusement during any slightly dull moments. There were two candidates this time. The first was that we purchased a ‘Little… Continue reading How to holiday (2)