Had 4 of my board gaming buddies around today for an all day session of Android. It’s a wonderful but complex game, set in a “Blade Runner” type world. I was providing lunch, but I wanted something that I could prepare in advance, and require…
Month: May 2011
A couple of months back, I made a post about Santander. This will hopefully be the last post I ever make about them. A recap – having been a happy customer with National Girobank for most of my working life, when it got privatised and…
Greatly amused by this, by the Corrigan Brothers: http://youtu.be/HplZ_taHXLM “O’Leary, O’Reilly, O’Hare and O’Hara, There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama. From the old Blarney Stone, to the green hills of Tara, There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama.” Apparently, the song has…
About the same time that I bought my Kindle, I noticed the Wii Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock full band kit was being sold by Amazon for a ridulously low price of 60 quid. I ordered a copy, on the principle that even if I…
Yesterday was the first time I used my pellet grill to cater for my board-game group. It was the regular “Second Saturday” meet, and we had 11 people attend. I had planned to do just bangers and burgers, the usual fare, but instead of grilling,…
Is anyone else (who reads this) playing with Arduino? It’s a kind of open source electronics kit. I’ve just ordered the StartFun Inventor’s Kit to get me going, which is a heap of varied components together with an Arduino Uno controller – an easily programmable…
Upgrading to Firefox 4, I expected there to be a little pain, as I got used to any changes they made. But whose bright idea was it to reverse the order of “Open in a new tab” and “Open in a new window” when you…
Over a year ago, I promised that I would write up some instructions on how to use a sourdough starter. This was more difficult than I expected. It is one thing to know how to do something, it is quite another to explain it. As…
My first free weekend since I got back up on my feet again, and I had planned to use it to get the garden straight. And now it is raining, and looks to carry on like that for the rest of the day (and possibly…
I had a routine health checkup yesterday; more blood drawn to followup some previous tests, and general checking of blood pressure/weight and chat about diet. The nurse asked me if anyone at the surgery had ever measured my height. I have been going there 10…