In accordance with the law of household devices, our combi boiler had a freakout on Sunday morning. While the rads are fine, the magic thing that diverts the hot water to the sinks and shower (and the electronics that make the activity LEDs act like a Cylon trying to look round a corner) is refusing to play ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's some manner of snobbery-related false consciousness or (more likely) a complete inability to function like other people, but I must admit that them there poll results make for somewhat uncomfortable reading ( Read more... )

This would be the mumbleth time that I've had to do battle with someone's XML-RPC library and it is still a hateful experience ( Read more... )

Dear CSI: Franchise, I suspect you're only following demographic trends, but a differently-mutilated female corpse Every Damn Programme isn't actually televisual 'entertainment'. Or perhaps it is? Not my idea of a diversion, anyway ( Read more... )

If you do by accident purchase some terrible industrial alcohol concoction, vaguely flavoured with some chemicals that the manufacturers are convinced smell a bit like Juniper, don't consume it. If you do, you may find yourself lurking under a pedestrian overpass handy for a half-built estate on one of the grimmer edges of Bristol. As you consider ( Read more... )

Dear Faceache-person

No I do not want a free Ipad and I'm certainly not going to follow any faceache-mangled and malware-shortened link to same.

Change your passwords, you've been 0wned.

I don't remember how I found this one. Only that I could stand to read about three pages before the urge to put my head in the oven too strong to resist ( Read more... )

I vaguely recall some children's telly that I assume is of seventies vintage. A young person is plagued by dreams of an ancestor who builds some early steam engine, but for reasons I've forgotten walls is up in a railway arch. Young person is guided by dreams to find said bricked-up bit and thus rediscover the engine ( Read more... )

There are days when every decision is the wrong one ( Read more... )

Anyone spot the Omron joke? No? Jolly good.