Archive for April, 2008

White dog shit

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I've had a number of minor conversations over the years that pondered the disappearance of the crumbly piles of white doggy poo that people of a certain age, myself included, swear were common place in the 70s and early 80s.

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grub

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I've been trying to replace my current 2 hard drives in my MythTV PVR with a single new one, but have suffered major grief getting the thing to boot.

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No sound in Firefox Flash plugin

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I'm pretty certain that I had this after upgrading my main PC to Fedora 8, but I hit it again this weekend on my laptop: no sound playing flash videos in Firefox.

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Beep

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I treated myself to some extra RAM for my main PC back in January, and it's been a bit of a tale of woe.

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Firefox 3

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Firefox is great; I'm a committed fan. (Those who know me know I've written one plug-in [URL Link], and sort-of maintain another [Neo Diggler]).

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ScribeFire

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

This Firefox add-on looks like it could be quite useful, especially when I come to post an entry that's most plagiarise someone else's page :-)
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Daylight Savings Time

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Rant mode on:  today, I am mostly being irritated by the recent change from GMT to BST.

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Blonde Joke

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Today, I just thought I'd share this pretty humorous blond joke with you.  Follow the link below.  Apologies if you're a blonde :)

Enjoy!

http://gmapalumni.org/chapomatic/?p=1414