Month: January 2006

  • New experiment – googleads now on the site

    Well, traffic levels here are increasing regularly. Guess either a) I have a lot of friends b) Theres actually some content here people want to read c) Lots of people are getting lost and ending up here. I’ve decided to try hosting some googleads here. The theory is if you are reading one of my…

  • The CD/DVD-Drive and the Paperclip (a.k.a. how to get your DVD out of your computer when the power is off)

    “D’arghhh!” said the man as he’d once again forgotten to take his favourite DVD out of his computer before turning the machine off. Now, he’d have to turn the power on to get the DVD out. Being a good man, he couldn’t possibly turn the power off until windows had fully started, the disk had…

  • Phases of Life

    I half mentioned before (my post about secret lives) how I’m finding that life goes in phases. For example, at the moment I am (once again) in my book reading phase. I’ve been devouring hundreds of pages a night in an effort to sleep (I’m also in my not sleeping phase, which, I remember having…