Author: sroot

  • I won an iPod!

    It must be a lucky year for me. I’ve just one an iPod Shuffle 1Gb courtesy of a Ford survey I completed (we’ve been looking at cars for Rhonda). A few months ago I won a 15 Amazon voucher from another survey. Only trouble is I don’t know what to buy with it. Any ideas?

  • 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…