Never do business with Zenith Staybrite. The end product is good and the installers are ok, but the business side of thing stinks to high heaven.
Never had to do that one before
My shiny-shiny smartphone that I love so much suffers from an annoying hardware defect.
It’s been ok for a while now, but this morning – just as I’m expecting an important phone call – it’s gone into a reboot cycle.
So now it’s cooling down in the office fridge.
Oy.
This is a test
Testing WP-FB Connect
Revisiting the list, from a looooong time ago.
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Updated website
Well, after a bit of soul searching, I’ve updated my website and ditched the old layout in favour of putting everything in wordpress. I’ve kept the old pages in place, mostly for the sake of legacy links, but I’ve updated all of the menus to point to the relevant wordpress pages.
The old website is dead, long live the new website.
Google Doodle: Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury
A visit to the zoo
It was a bank holiday last weekend and we took Bean to Linton Zoo to change things around a bit. Bean is becoming a walking ball of overzealous destruction when left to his own devices, so we though taking him to see home animals would be a good diversion. The zoo is cute, and they have some really nice big cats, but it’s expensive for the size it is, sadly.
Still, it was a nice walk and Bean seemed to enjoy it. We’ll probably keep it as a treat for future outings.
Lots of pictures here: http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/various_aug_2011/
We’re finding Bean a lot of hard work these days. He doesn’t listen, is very stubborn and has Katy’s temper (and elbows!). We’re having moderate success with time-outs, except that now he’s taken to putting his toys on time-out (no hit mummy and daddy!). It’s good that he gets the message, even though he’s not always acting on it.
We were in Leicester the weekend before that. I really needed a vacation from work stress so I’d taken some days off and we went to see the in-laws. The plan was to drop Bean off and spend some quiet time having cocktails, watch movies and some nice meals out. That went out the window when Katy’s dad was ill and her mom fell and dislocated her shoulder. We ended up babysitting the babysitters. Understandable, but poopey nonetheless. We managed to salvage some good times by making extravagant ice cream sundaes.
On a brighter note, Christmas is coming and we’ve started making plans!
My personal website is getting bigger all the time
It’s now up to 1.35GB. According to webalizer, I get a daily average of about 300 visitors and transfer 3gb of monthly bandwidth. Fantabulous!
Oh, and one of the common search strings that get directed to my blog is “dalek porn”.
Comic crisis averted
What do you do when your source of daily comics changes its CMS and your build-your-own-comic page no longer works? You write your own, damnit!
http://flubu.com/cgi-bin/comics.php
Damn, my PHP is rusty! (well, it’s not really surprising considering that I haven’t used it in anger in over 6 years)
Expensive weekend!
What did we do this weekend? We spent MONEY!
We went to Costco to replenish out supply of dry goods and cleaning products (£200)
We went to Ikea to buy some storage container for Bean’s arts and crafts supplies and steps for him to use in the bathroom. Of course, we left with may more shit than that (£90)
We went to Scottsdales for our regularly scheduled Sunday lunch outing. That’s always costly :) (£100)
We bought a new laptop, because the old one is finally on its last legs (£315)
So yeah.
Ouch.
It’s a good thing we don’t have many weekends like this.
To be honest though, the Costco outing is actually saving us money in the long run because we plan to buy stuff that’s generally 1/3 to 1/2 cheaper than what we’d pay at Tesco in our weekly grocery bill. I also need to point out that the laptop lasted surprisingly longer than I expected it to, considering that the screen is only hanging on by one hinge, the battery hasn’t worked in months, the CD cover plate got ripped off and the whole front panel/keyboard is about halfway off the laptop. I’m impressed with the build quality of the thing, considering that I don’t remember the number of times it’s been pushed/fell off the back of the sofa.