At 4.41 this morning, the landline rang four times, then hung up. When I got up this morning, I dialled 1471 and found that the number of the caller was not one I recognised. I typed it into the Google search box, and it seems tha…

Yeast First Or Last

I’ve just bought a Panasonic SD2500. In the recipes it says that yeast should be put in first. However, on their top-of-the-… machine there is a yeast dispenser. Hence, yeast will go in last. Furthermore, with my previous machines, the books a…

First Book Club Discussion

First book club discussion As Andy pointed out, we didn’t set a deadline for the start of discussion of our book of the month. Since the title was chosen on 22 February, we have a month, ending 21 March. I hope that gives everyone enough time? Sasha

Hooray Our New Euro Lock Arrived Today

Screwfix Euro locks have been out of stock for a while but I have now been able to get our new front door lock: http://www…. shed-brass/… New Anti “snap”, “bump” etc. Stangely …

WHY Is It Wrong?

I think most people here would agree that a phrase like ‘we’ll be back momentarily’ is just wrong but why? It’s used to mean ‘we’ll be back shortly’ whereas the phrasing suggests ‘we’ll be back briefly’ but why? Use of ‘short’ and ‘brief’ can be p…

Windows 8 – Great Or Guffaw?

A closed question on StackOverfl… made me think that it would be sensible to have a discussion about Windows 8. From what I hear, the general principle is that if you have a desktop app, it will carry on working on Intel kit. But to get into the…

More On The Mistreatment Of Women (And Girls) In Afghanistan

More on the mistreatment of women (and girls) in Afghanistan This is an article from The New York Times which outlines the system of ‘baad’ whereby girls are abducted and punished for the perceived misdeeds of male members of their families. Not pleasant Sunday morning reading:

Extradition. Anyone Care To Comment On The Logic, Morality And Ethics Of E…

Extradition. Anyone care to comment on the logic, morality and ethics of extraditing someone to a country when the alleged crime did not occur within the (internatio… accepted) jurisdiction of that country, and especially when it occurred w…

Converting Primary To Logical Partition

I’ve finished up with too many primary partitions on my disk and need to convert at least one to logical. I know that Acronis Disk Director will do it, but it costs money. There’s also EaseUS partition Manager which is free. But I’m a bit uneasy …

UI Frameworks/Packages

I’m looking for a nice frontend framework for a Grails application (web based, Java/Groovy on the server). Just something to give a neat appearance and to save me from having to reinvent code or include bits from many separate places – so form ha…

A Harmless Tweet?

“I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don’t understand about you… I will not pray for you.” That message, posted on Twitter by Saudi Arabian Hamza Kasgari, sparked over 30,000 responses, several d…

New PVR

New PVR I think my Toppy 5810 is a bit ill – if I turn it off or put it into standby, when I restart it the HDD often won’t wake up, and I have to keep trying again and again until finally it works. So, what’s a good replacement?

Award Winning Marmalade!

As some of you may know, for the last year, my wife Melanie has been making handmade preserves here in Wetwang and this weekend we were up in Cumbria for the “World’s Original Marmalade Awards”. Well, I’m proud to say that she won a Gold award fo…

Where Were We Talking About Feminism? This Brings It All Back:

Where were we talking about feminism? This brings it all back: http://www….

Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck The wife just told me about this. I thought she was joking, but then I saw her face! SteveR.

Barclays New Website

Anyone tried Barclays new Banking Website? Pile of sh*t. Riddled with Javascript errors. Attempts to send feedback result in endless loop of login, go to feedback page, sent to login page… At last found a response “form”. Filled in complaint. …

More On The Mistreatment Of Women (And Girls) In Afghanistan

More on the mistreatment of women (and girls) in Afghanistan This is an article from The New York Times which outlines the system of ‘baad’ whereby girls are abducted and punished for the perceived misdeeds of male members of their families. Not pleasant Sunday morning reading: http://is.g…

Looking For Computer Games

Shortly I shall be enjoying a course of medication that makes life a little difficult and one of the things that will provide a good distraction is computer games. I’m looking for recommendat… for PC computer games. The sort of games I like …