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Last weekend our cat, Tilly, was poisoned. When I saw him lying on the living room floor he was suffering some form of seizure, shuddering, stretching and curling uncontrollably. His pulse was so light, his breathing so shallow, that I was sure they had stopped altogether. The spasms were too strong to get him safely into a the carrier so he went ( Read more... )

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Just spent the last three days fixing my very own "everything's gone weird" tech support problem. I think it was that last windows update compounding some things I'd been meaning to look into but weren't particularly pressing. The result was many hours of chasing anomalies through the registry and repeatedly reconfiguring the OS trying to figure ( Read more... )

I have a CIW exam coming up Saturday week so my free time is going to be occupied with cramming until then. I was reasonably confident up until I actually paid the testing fee, now I feel like I'm back in UKC facing another lit module exam that needs way too many numbers and names for my dyslexic comfort. Anecdotal evidence suggests the CIW ( Read more... )

They are not staring at us! They're just toys, nothing but inert lumps of cheap painted plastic. They can't see anything... except maybe the tiny tortured souls of the poor Chinese children who perished while making them.

I was just rummaging in the attic looking for lost art materials and found these:


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When I'm sick, I have horrible, sweaty nightmares about network security.

You think I'm joking, but, tragically, I'm not.

Headache, check. Cough, check. Sinuses like concrete, check. Unstaunchable mucous flow, double-check ( Read more... )

And that... was a week in Dorset visiting my sister for Christmas. I was still getting over the more persistent symptoms of my horrible cold but, other than a couple of nerve-grating shopping trips, it was very relaxing. We were holed-up in a warm little cottage in the peaceful village of Bourton where we did very little other than sleep, eat and ( Read more... )