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Welcome to my new laptop! It arrived this morning and is all new and fresh... and red! I went for the Dell Studio 15 in the end, with a bit of an upgrade on the processor. I know Dell isn't everyone's favourite, but in terms of bang for buck, it came out very well on the offer. I did get the free colour case upgrade (RED!) but I wasn't shallow ( Read more... )

Whilst I love living in Metroland, the transport infrastructure leaves a lot to be desired. To get into London today, I have precisely ONE option (that isn't a rail replacement bus, and I don't DO buses). This one option is also once an hour. When did we start living in a 2nd world country? Did I miss the vote on that one or something? And ( Read more... )

Hello lovelies,

I've had a lovely weekend gadding about and seeing lots of top people who it feels like I've known forever.

The inestimable geoffcampbell hosted the 12th team_waste Summer Camp this weekend. team_waste is the gang of hooligan bikers who all met through the online conferencing system CIX and spend a number of years partying like mad and ( Read more... )

I'm looking at a laptop for my birthday, and I'm down to a choice of two ( Read more... )

Morning dears ( Read more... )

How much do you lot care about the old swine 'flu? Not too much I hope, as there's a small chance my colleague, who I lunched with on Friday, has contracted it. Which might mean I have, but you just never know do you?

Anyway, if drpete or I start to show any symptoms, I'll make sure and let you know. This will only apply to the couple of people I saw ( Read more... )

Does anyone still watch VHS tapes these days? I've just found a small pile that I'd forgotten I had and don't know what to do with. 11 x Simpsons tapes and 2 x exercise tapes.

Does anyone have the know-how/technology to convert audio tape into MP3? In the same box I found all my old classical music tapes and it would be nice to have them on the

Sorry. It's nothing personal, but entirely due to lack of reading time these days, compounded by no external web access during the day. I can't keep up with all these fabulous lives, and the envy is killing me!