We’re in a bit of hot water – at last ! Wednesday evening last week I had a shower after doing some rowing. While I was getting dressed afterwards, I heard a loud “bang” and the lights flickered. Fearing the worst, I ran to the study, looking for smoke that would indicate something had blown … [Read More »]

While browsing through some old posts I made on a discussion forum, I found this attempt at humour I had written a couple of years ago – in response to someone’s use of latin in their writing: Greetings and good dies Michael et al. I must say that I do take issue when people insist … [Read More »]

Some silly poetry I wrote back in Jan 2002 (with apologies to Robert Frost): The rocky-road not taken. Two rocky-roads appeared on a yellow dish, And sorry I could not eat both And to consume them all, long I wished And wondered if they would be missed I eyed the larger, with more pink marshmallows; … [Read More »]

From Dec’s Dom Blog IBM announced earlier this month that it will withdraw its operating system OS/2 officially from sale on December 23 this year and will offer support through to the end 2006. Although it’s amazing the product is still out there, still in use, and still being sold – it is still a … [Read More »]

I was out on Sunday evening getting some dinner and when I went to get back into the car, the door handle snapped off. Aarrgghh. No longer being able to open the door from the outside, I went around to the passenger side door to reach across and push the door open from the inside. … [Read More »]