I have a new iPad, necessary because the old one had become so slow and wouldn’t support many of the apps I wanted. I’d hardly had it two days when it informed me that it would install new software so I left it overnight to cook. Since then, strange things have happened to iBooks. This is where I read the e-books I get sent by Dean Street Press ( Read more... )

Thank you LJ friends, Tweeters and a nice lady from Sky. They're sending me a replacement remote without any fuss at all. Coincidence? Or just the right person dealing with the issue? Who knows; I hope it solves my problem.

I’ve always refused to have Sky, partly because, you know, Murdoch, and partly because I won’t fork out a hefty monthly subscription when all I want is the cricket ( Read more... )

So. Farewell then the 60W light bulb. I am one of its millions of fans.

Here's what cybersofa had to say about low energy light bulbs on Jan 20th 2006. (It took me ages to find this, because now that the journal is in ‘memorial status’, it’s not searchable, nor can I link to the right page. What a brilliant journal it was.)

Let's make some light bulbs. ( Read more... )

If I want to comment on someone's Typepad blog, no problem. Up comes a box with all my details and off I go.
Blogger has always been more difficult. What I've done inthe past is select open ID, then Live Journal and the URL of my blog. No problem. Until now, when I keep getting this message:
The site you just came from seems to want to verify an ( Read more... )