One of our famous UK bank holidays is upon us. During which every one who live in a city heads for the country. Lots of people who live in the country head off for a city break. Causing more traffic chaos than rush hour.
Myself,??I am now off for a week, but I might sneak a [...]

Any one involved in large scale application consolidation or migration may want to consider a few points I have written up here
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The Wife has been busy updating her MySpace Page??and decided to create her self a little shockwave flash slide show, using the myspace tools
There seems to be a small error in the tool set instructions, which ment it did not display the last few steps. so a quick call (shout) to her IT dept (ME) [...]

My sixth form days (some 22 years ago) involved a major prank at least once a week
From Gritting the ends of the playground ice slides in the winter ( to see if the 1st year’s could cope with the sudden stop), to using a CO2 fire extingushers for air conditioning in the summer
Shame we did [...]

In a world which seem to be full of drug dealers driving stolen or unregistered cars with no TAX, MOT or insurance, the DVLA and the NCP clamp one which is registered, SORNed and ALMOST of the road.
I say almost a, small part of it was overhanging a pavement, so the NCP/DVLA Jobsworths clamped it [...]

Someone has stolen my wife and replaced her with an Internet geek
In the last two weeks she has opened a facebook, a myspace page and a myspace blog

According to The Register, Morgan Sparks, inventor of the first “practical” transistor and one of the reasons your cell phone doesn’t use vacuum tubes, died this week at the age of 91
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/morgan_sparks_obituary/

Got a call from the sister in law last week, her Dyson DC07 was as dead as a door nail,
When I arrived at her house, it had decided to work, well sort, sounding like a arc welder and blowing thick black smoke out of the motor exhaust
Time to get the toolkit out, 45 minutes later [...]