Having come to the end of my contract with Orange I wanted to renew it with a different contract and a Nokia 6230*. Unfortunately Orange told me that the contract I wanted was only available to new customers as an introductory offer. I rang them today to tell them that I would be […]

I was feeling quite pleased with myself after my interview this morning so I went out to treat myself to a new clock. Since I reorganised my room I no longer have a clock I can see at night, as I haven’t found space for my VCR yet. Being me I couldn’t just […]

I drove to work for the first time on Sunday. Seeing as I said I would never drive in London it was quite a big deal for me. It was no where near as bad as I thought it would be so I will be driving in on Sundays in future. On […]

The GPS Mouse I ordered of eBay arrived today. It turns out it’s a BU-303 but it looks identical to the Rayming TripNav USB GPS Receiver. I plugged it in and the light on the device lit up, which was a good start. I loaded GPSNavX and it couldn’t connect to the […]

I bought a new printer today. I went for the Epson R200 and it is absolutely amazing. It’s a fairly large printer but considering it prints borderless A4 sheets as well as printing directly on printable CDs & DVDs I think that’s more than acceptable. It’s quiet, quick and of astounding quality. […]

A white van arrived this morning and delivered these to me.

Now I just have to work out how to put it all together….

Ellipsis Productions make a little app that exports bookmarks from Safari. That’s all it does. I wanted to keep a copy of my bookmarks online so that I would always have access to them. I was in the process of copying and pasting them into a html page when I thought “I bet […]

After I finally got everything working the PC downstairs is now fubar. The drive died and I have had to order another one. Last night Chris and Tony came over to help me recover the data off the dead disk. We spent a while trying to figure a way of getting the […]

Broadband is alive and kicking in the Wright household. Muchos thanks to Rob, and muchos grief to the idiot that wrote non-valid html for my modem settings page. YAY!!!

I must apologise if I misquoted Rob or overstated his involvement in this project thus far, I will briefly enclose his words on the subject:
“May I also take this opportunity to point out that deltree’ing certainly isn’t my preferred method of reinstall and wasn’t my suggestion! I might also say that my first advice was […]