We went off down to London on Saturday to see the grand opening of the new Apple Store on Regent Street. Unfortunately some people had been queuing for a day or two like this person (check their entries for November 19th-20th 2004).
The queue was absolutely huge by 10am so we decided to skip waiting in line and go visit the MacExpo 2004 instead where we met up with Mike.
Author: Simon
Fedora Core 3
Having recently tried to install a new machine at work with Fedora Core 3, I’ve decided that I won’t be getting myself a MegaRAID i4 IDE RAID card at any point.
Snow!
It’s only the 18th of November (or was a couple of hours ago when I took the picture) but we’ve got snow already. Not just a light sprinkling of some powdery stuff, but lots of real huge wet flakes. This is a picture of the top of our fiesta after just a couple of hours. There would have been more but the car had been driven recently and was still warm enough to melt some of the snow.
Happy Christmas!
Excuse me? It’s not even December, let alone December 25th and already we have Christmas decorations up in the local Iceland store in Beeston and the council have put up the Christmas lights throughout the town.
Hard disk woes
I’m starting to think that Maxtor disks aren’t as good as I thought they were. I bought 3 about 10 months ago, shortly followed by another one. All the same model and size, and created a linux software raid RAID5 array out of them.
Fixed car plus Sockbaby
Finally it looks like the car might be completely sorted out 🙂
On a completely different note, I was sent a link earlier on instant messaging. The link was http://www.sockbaby.com/ – totally bizarre, but quite cool, set of short video clips.
Car troubles again
For a couple of months, I’d been getting the “engine problem” light and each time it went to the garage, the onboard computer reckoned there was a different fault. The vacuum pump, glow plugs, mass air-flow sensor and oil level all caused it at one point or another.
Not content with this, my car has now got a slow puncture on the back tyre and the locking wheel nut key snapped when the garage was getting it off! Gonna cost me yet more money to get it sorted tomorrow 🙁
Spammers should die!
*RANT MODE ON*
I just opened up my mail program and found 81 new messages (since last night!) Of those 81 messages, 4 were personal and the rest were blog notifications about new comments.. some nasty little blog-spammer has gone and added spam about casinos and various drugs to all my blog entries! It’s just taken me 15 minutes to clean up a few of the entries and change the comments to closed again.
I hate spammers!
*RANT MODE OFF*
The Pool (part 3)
Well, after 3 weeks the pool had turned a nasty green colour, had emptied of water a fair bit compared to when it was full, and the water on the rain cover (plastic dust sheet) was occupying more of the space in the pool than the water inside was!
Had to drain the pool and tomorrow will have to find something to clean the plastic with before it gets put away. I guess no-one’s going to be using it this year given that school starts again at the end of this week.
The Pool (part 2)
Went out to check how the pool was doing yesterday. It’s been there a week and no-one has yet ventured into it because of the awful weather we’ve been having. After all the rain last week, there was quite a large puddle collected in the top of the makeshift cover (an old polythene dust sheet weighted at each corner and held around the pool by the garden hose).
Having emptied the contents of the cover out onto the lawn, I figured that maybe wasn’t such a good idea after all because the lawn was as wet as the inside of the pool!
Maybe the weather will pick up somewhat this week and the kids will actually get some use out of it.