Been an interesting few weeks. On September 4, I went in for minor knee surgery – should have been a few days of discomfort and then a few weeks of steady recovery and I’d be back, better than ever… well, that was the idea. Don’t know what went wrong, but it involved lots of swelling …
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no comfort in being right…
I have mentioned before now that I’m a bit of a weather nerd – like to think I know what’s going on. So when I asked the question earlier last year about our changing weather patterns, I was already pretty sure I knew the answer. Things have changed. Sadly, it seems that I am not …
looks like spam, smells like spam…
So, come on Google – mark it as spam! Does that screengrab look like spam to you? Sure looks like spam to me, and I’ve been dutifully marking dozens like it as spam each day for weeks, but still they arrive. Come on google, how hard can they be to spot?
bingo bingo bingo!!!
OK, been away for a little while – had a WONDERFUL holiday – sorry to anyone who expected me to blog while I was away… that was just not going to happen! Still, now I’m back and there’s no excuse, so here’s the first installment of a few retrospective travel posts – hope you enjoy …
google street view car in austria
Yes, on a recent holiday in beautiful Austria, the nerd in me became very excited to see in the right lane of the motorway up ahead a little red Opel with a big black camera on top. Yep, streetview is definitely on the way to Austria and I’m hoping there’ll be a photo of me …
this weekend we ate!
Every weekend it seems we end up eating… rather a lot. This weekend was longer than usual and so we’ve eaten rather more than usual! Here’s a few highlights. Sunday breakfast: superb batch of blueberry muffins – buttermilk makes them so moist and soft! Sunday evening: Moussaka – haven’t made it for years, but it …
watching my bandwidth…
Like most people who have broadband, my account doesn’t have excess charges, just ‘shaping’ – dropping back to crawling ‘dial-up’ speeds until the end of the billing period. It is just horrible and I really do my very best to avoid it. Obviously the best way to avoid it is to keep a close eye …
Nooooooooooo!!!
One of my favourite blogs ever has just been discontinued due to management interference. Bah, humbug!
OVI store – a competitor?
Nokia today launched it’s OVI store, an attempt by the company to jump on the tidal wave of success that is the Apple Store (along with about a half a dozen other imitators). Many industry pundits are touting it as some sort of competitor, but I’m afraid that’s an uphill battle, and one they’re never …
commbank goes mobile
I don’t know exactly when they released this, but the Commonwealth bank have just gone mobile with both a mobile and an iPhone app. I’ve just had a poke around the site on my nokia 6120 and it’s excellent. Does everything I need smoothly and easily – they deserve a big thumbs up. If there …
a meal to remember
It’s evening now, but I’m still slightly stunned by the lunch I ate today. We received an impromptu invitation to a first brithday ‘celebration’ lunch for Shanghai Ling’s new premises – it was a set menu, but we were told not to expect anything we’d seen on the menu before. Sure enough, there was a …
you meet aldi best people…
‘scuse the awful pun, but the other day, I was alerted (by treadly) to the fact that Aldi had an upcoming sale which included some cycling gear. I am a keen commuter cyclist – that is, I cycle to work – on the weekends, I do occasionally do a bit of urban cruising, but I …