Well, this weekend was fun. On Friday evening, the A12 near Colchester was closed because a lorry with gas canisters in it caught fire. Unfortunately, it also meant that they closed the railway line… although the line wasn’t closed between Ipswich and Colchester, it still affected my journey home! Last week was pretty bad for…

My car insurance is currently with AA Insurance. AA as in, The AA – the Automobile Association. They sent me a letter through last week to tell me that my insurance is up for renewal, and that they’d found a cheaper quote for me (it looks like they use a variety of insurance companies). They…

This weekend has been fairly productive: we made a start on some decorating! We painted one wall of our bedroom… that may not sound a lot, but it was more breaking the psychological barrier of actually starting. Now we’ve started, I think it will be easier to continue! And it’s all good experience as well.…

I had a good idea recently. I thought I would describe it here to see what other people think. I’m always moaning about the fact that I don’t go and see many gigs. The problem is partially down to the fact that I don’t know when they’re on: I could trawl the ticket-hunting websites, or…

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress version 2.3. Unfortunately this has meant the site being down for a short while (an hour or so) — for some reason, my FTP server was timing out certain connections, meaning that not all of the files uploaded correctly. I’ve resolved the issue now, and everything appears to be working…

Just a quick post tonight… I’ve been looking for a BitTorrent client on Ubuntu for a while now. Ubuntu does come with one, but unfortunately it’s not that great – it’s fine for basic downloading of one torrent at a time, but it’s not so great if you want to do advanced stuff, like download…

This weekend was fairly quiet. On Friday evening we went to Tesco, as we were having my parents round on Saturday so we needed to get some supplies. On Saturday my parents and my sister Alison came round, and we had a BBQ to celebrate their 25th anniversary. There are a few photos of this…

No, unfortunately, not on Safari in Africa. On Apple’s Safari browser for Windows. Seeing as Matthew wrote a few thoughts on it a couple of days ago, I decided to try it myself, so I’ve just downloaded and installed it. I haven’t really used it much yet, but here are my first impressions: It’s not…

I use Eclipse Internet for my ADSL broadband connection. It’s only been switched on for a few days (since last Wednesday, in fact). It seems to be going well so far – better than my old provider at least (it’s quite a bit faster). The only problem was, sometimes web pages didn’t load up completely…

I’ve just signed up for last.fm. This means that, amongst other things, you can see what I’ve just been listening to on my profile. At some point I might put a little “last.fm” box on this site to show the same thing, I don’t know about other people but I find it quite interestnig when…