A simple matter of…

On Friday I _finally_ picked up my new toy and I’m loving riding it. If only the weather in this country was a little better than it’s been recently.
Leaning into corners rather than just going around them is much more fun, you also feel much more connected with the world. It’s so impractical [...]

I was sad to see that Randy Pausch has died. If you’ve not seen it, you really should watch the last lecture. Even if you are (like me) someone who hates “go get them” videos, just bear with this one, even if you think it’s going to get your hackles up, it won’t. [...]

pot - “The PM said “unnecessary” purchases were contributing to price rises”.
kettle - “The UK is to slow its adoption of biofuels amid fears they raise food prices and harm the environment”.
As has been known for quite some time that biofuels in their present form are bad:

heavily subsidised (otherwise they would be incredibly [...]

That’s “passed” with an “a”, not an “i”.
On Thursday I passed by DAS Motorbike test. I’m now able to ride any motorbike I like (after my CBT test last year I could ride anything up to 125cc).
Many, many thanks to Steve and Tim at Bike2Bike for all the training and persevering with [...]

I’ve blogged about last.fm before, but it’s so good it’s worth mentioning again. It’s changed a fair bit since I last used it, the client has got better (it’s also as simple as “apt-get install lastfm” in Ubuntu and Debian for us Linux users).
A recap - you run last.fm, type in an artist [...]

Gosh. I’m almost in shock - a company whose support was helpful. In fact, two!
It’s about time to renew my domain name and although the whois records say easyspace.co.uk, it’s another company I’ve actually registered though. I phoned up easyspace and (once I’d got past the queue) they told me within about [...]

That’s how much power my house uses “at idle”.
Mostly from:

server downstairs
desktop upstairs (monitor powersaved)
humax PVR
misc items (oven, microwave, fridge/freezer)

Switching one monitor on jumps it to 317W, switching a light on 362W.
I’m now going to have to keep track of how much each appliance uses.
I can’t quite bring myself to switch [...]

16:27 <blueGremlin> Any company that has an employee ‘pizza preferences’ page
on their wiki is off to a good start.

However did I survive without a nice coffee machine I just don’t know. I’m sure that it’s the freshly ground coffee that makes the biggest difference. I can hardly stomach regular coffee now!
Steve from HasBean is amazing as ever - for example I ordered five lots of coffee on Wednesday at 2pm. They [...]

I now have a Hi-Fi in the lounge. And what a Hi-Fi
Due to house moves etc (and to cut a long story short), I am currently looking after Rob’s brother’s Quad setup. You can see Rob assembling it and the final setup. The TV is 42″ BTW - it doesn’t [...]