Just to let everyone know, my laptop recently went from having a QWERTY keyboard to a WERTY (sic!) one. The 'q' key has just died, and so did the '1' key (together with the exclamation mark). As you may have guessed, I've resorted to using the on-screen keyboard to type in those characters. What joy, what rapture unforeseen ( Read more... )

Just had a bit of an earthquake here (00:58 GMT approx.), I would say subjectively felt about 3-4 on the Richter magnitude scale here in Leicestershire - enough to wake me up. Picture lots of people running around in their undies shouting "Bl**dy hell, what was this!?".

Shouldn't be allowed, this sort of thing. I blame global warming. Tsk, tsk.

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Bloody telemarketers with their pesky unsolicited calls, rhaaa! They call me, ask me if I speak Russian (ööö yeah, but wtf does it matter?), then they ask if I wish to purchase this wonderful new DNA phone contract. Thanks but no thanks! How did they get my phone number, anyway? And obviously they have some sort of profile on me as well. I think ( Read more... )