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The Family IT Guy
I visited my brother-in-laws yesterday (I mentioned that in my previous post). My wife had mentioned to me that their PC was running very slow and was very noisy. Now I know they’re not overly IT literate, so I thought I’d help out. My external 2.5 hard drive was packed full of software, I had…
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Eh? What?
So, there I was last night, at 9:30pm, pitch black, driving along a back-country road. No houses. No street lights. A car had just passed me so I put on my main beam for better visibility. Then I pass a jogger. Yes, a jogger. On the pavement, jogging towards the oncoming traffic. Annoyed at my…
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So what have I been up to?
My Twitters and Facebook status’ over the last few days have been showing me as being rather nervous about an impending event. To say the least. Well, it was a blood test that I had this morning. “That’s nothing”, you’re probably thinking. Well, for somebody with a fear of needles like me, it’s a big…
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Take two blogs into the shower?
A friend of mine has recently blogged about how he doesn’t get the lure of Twitter and certainly why somebody would run a blog and would want to Twitter as well. Well, that’s me. So here’s my take… blogging is great but I don’t always have the time or inclanation to write one. Writing a…
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Running VirtualBox from a command line
As I’ve mentioned in the past, VirtualBox is my favourite of all the out there. I use it to run Kubuntu on my Windows XP machine, for web development purposes. Anyway, I have just the one “guest” machine, Kubuntu, so it seems a bit tedious to have to start VirtualBox each time. Naturally, there is…