This weekend was pretty quiet. Phil wasn’t feeling well last week, and she still wasn’t 100%, so she didn’t feel like doing too much. She is feeling much better now though, so I guess taking it easy must have had a positive effect! (On a slightly related note, one other bit of good news is…

I’ve been having a few car problems recently: In early December last year, one of the fuel injectors went. This wasn’t a hugely expensive operation to fix, but it still cost money which could have been used elsewhere! Yesterday, I got into the car and tried to start it. It stalled straight away, so I…

For Christmas I bought Phil a Logitech Harmony 525 Universal Remote Control (now there’s a mouthful!). I first used it last Tuesday, but it’s taken me until today to actually get it to work, via various support calls and so on! I don’t really want to bore you with the details, but just get to…

Just a quick update on what’s been happening over the past few days. On Saturday we did some decorating, which was fun! We’d already taken down the wallpaper last Thursday evening, so on Saturday I spent most of the day painting. The little room now looks much better! – the wallpaper previously, although it only…

… I know I shouldn’t, but I found this absolutely hilarious!

Jeremy Clarkson has written an article entitled “Unhand my patio heater, archbishop”, in which he responds to a sermon by Archbishop Rowan Williams talking about global warming. The gist of his argument is basically that religion has killed far many more people than global warming ever has, and so we should give up religion rather…

Zeth has blogged his predictions for 2008. I thought that I would post up a reply here, rather than leaving a comment! There are a few of his predictions I wanted to challenge (so, when January 2009 comes round, I can either have egg on my face or, preferably, point and say “I told you…

Firstly, let me just wish all my readers a happy new year (if I have not already done so in person)! Our new year began well – more on that later. We had a really nice Christmas break. On Christmas Eve, we went to the carol service at Fordham, which was absolutely packed! It’s been…

Well, it’s been a fairly busy weekend – once again! I think December is just a fairly busy month, what with Christmas and everything… We basically spent the weekend doing a bit of last-minute Christmas shopping (for wrapping paper!), wrapping up presents, and generally preparing for Christmas. There’s a carol service at Fordham tonight, and…

Well, I’ve finally managed to get desktop effects (Compiz) working on Ubuntu Gutsy! I’ve been having problems for a while – I’m not sure why, could be a number of things… each time I tried to enable the desktop effects, it just came up with a message about not being able to enable them! Enabling…