Signed Up

Posted: Mon 25 August, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: General | Leave a comment »

Following on from the visit to the gym last week, I’m now signed up for a six month stint.

My first day there, and the induction and initial checkout etc. will be on Wednesday 3rd September – and I must admit, I’m actually quite looking forward to it.

Prisons? Criminals? Who’d Have Thought

Posted: Fri 20 June, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: General | Leave a comment »

So an inquiry into a jail at the time when one prisoner was killed by two others has concluded that the prison had “a criminal subculture“.

A criminal subculture. In prison. What a shocker.

Village Quiz

Posted: Tue 17 June, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Domestic, General | Leave a comment »

Last week, we entered into the annual quiz in one of the local villages, along with Herself’s mum and partner. (Now they’ve moved to the area, and in fact to the village in question)

It has to be said, we’re not bad on quizzes in general – we won the Spring one in our own village earlier this year, and came second in the Hallowe’en one last year, and won a couple of times at the pub quiz in Bracknell – so it’s something I don’t mind doing, and can be quite fun.

What we didn’t know until we got there last week though, was that the “prize” for winning this one was to do the questions for next year’s quiz. Now admittedly this could be quite fun, but at the same time well, we’ve got enough commitments at the moment anyway, and adding in the extra for doing about a hundred questions would perhaps be the straw that broke the back.

So all through the quiz, we were joking that we’d aim for not-quite winning. For the first half of the quiz, we were actually in the lead, which was a bit of a worry.

Still, by the end after a few mistakes of having two answers and opting for the wrong one, it turned out that we came…

Second

Not intentionally – if it hadn’t been for those mistakes we’d have won by about three points – but all the same, it was amusing to have ended up in exactly the position we’d been joking about throughout. Anyone listening in would’ve thought it was rigged…

Micro Mouse

Posted: Tue 18 March, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky, General, Own Business, Travel, Work-related | 3 Comments »

At the moment, I’m doing a lot of work on my laptop – the new workplace didn’t have a spare PC, so I’m using my laptop as a work machine on a daily basis. (I use it as a work machine when I’m working from home anyway, but there I still have the option of using the main desktop PC too. It depends more on where I want to sit/work, really)

Anyway because of that, and also because of some of the work I’m doing, it’s a lot easier to do it using a mouse, instead of the laptop’s touchpad. Yes, I can use the touchpad still but well, a mouse is easier.

So I’ve ended up buying a little portable optical micromouse thing , and it’s marvellous. I tend to just leave it in the office at the moment, but I’m truly impressed with how easy (and comfortable) it is to use on a regular basis. I particularly like the way that the receiver stick can be stowed inside the mouse body when it’s not being used, and also the retractable USB-to-miniUSB cable for charging the damn thing – that’s going to get used in a variety of other roles as well, believe me.

All told, very very impressed with the entire thing. And it does make desk-based laptop life a whole hell of a lot.

New Contract

Posted: Mon 3 March, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: General | Leave a comment »

So today I start a new contract – new town, new company, new everything.

It’s only for a month initially, to see how things go. But the timing has worked out just about perfectly – I’ve been able to work from home while the bathroom was being redone, and now that’s completed I’m back in an office again. If things work out for the better, the contract will be extended and at that point I’ll be able to work from home for a fair proportion of time as well, which will also be a considerable bonus.

So we’ll just have to see how it goes, but it’s all progress and makes things look considerably better for 2008…

Hush-Hush

Posted: Tue 5 February, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: General | Leave a comment »

Spot the mistake in the following sentence from this story…

Nine other people were wounded, one critically, in the blast in Dimona, a remote town that is home to Israel’s top-secret nuclear reactor, but never before the target of a militant attack.

It might not be quite as “top-secret” as they think…

2008

Posted: Tue 1 January, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: General | 1 Comment »

Bah, HumbugHappy New Year, and all that guff.

Now, can 2008 be better than 2007, please? Not that 2007’s been entirely bad – just fraught with hassle, and massively overworked in some sectors. So if 2008 could be a bit calmer, and not quite so strained, that’d be really nice.

Not much chance of it really, but hey, I can hope.

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