Whilst the GCL work lappy (Lenovo W530, core i7, 32GB RAM) is a PITA for cables falling out of every orifice, it don't half shift at doing work. Compiled the EDK-II source freshly snaffled from git repository & using MS VC 2012 (express), it took under a minute. Do the same at the E/// office on the poor HP EliteBook core i5 thing with but 4GB RAM ( Read more... )

Hello LJ. Sorry I seem to have decamped and been posting FB status updates 'stead of using you ( Read more... )

Trying to order tickets to the Fields of the Nephilim at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire for 31 Oct (yeah, I know, clashes with WGW, what can one do!) is quite stressful ( Read more... )

Windows 7. must control fist. of. death ( Read more... )

Wheee sugar rush (bounce bounce bounce) - thanks eurydice13 for the birthday party hosting with lots of cool people and a most excellent tiramisu ( Read more... )

I do wish the pharmaceutical companies when packaging up pills into the little foil wrapped sheets for us to take would leave more space around the pills for us to write what the schedule to take them was, so one could see if one's already taken the dose, specially for someone like me with a not-brilliant memory. Have just been started on ( Read more... )

Went downstairs to the kitchen to nuke a couple of slices of tuesdays cheep pizza (two XL pizzas for 15 quid, lasts me for days (as long as I don't get fed up of pizza) & then into the freezer to make it keep) for breakfast, did that and remembered the kitchen was clear as C&J were away playing ukelelalelililos somewhere, and I had thunked about ( Read more... )

This evenings lumbar MRI scan at Royal Surrey Hotspital (RSH) went well. I am able to relax totally in it and enjoy the experience of being able to think without PCs, phones, etc etc etc and have 20 mins of enforced doing nothing (am always seeming to be doing things and thinking things). Nice time to think and just Be. No claustrophobia and the ( Read more... )

Fed up of PC things, installing Ubuntu failing, UEFI BIOS stuff being complicated and brain going splort due to trying to cram too much in, I decided to relax by committing some culinary creations (or crimes ( Read more... )

I must live at confused.com. Well, I seem to currently, as am having headaches trying to get the UEFI Shell application onto a bootable USB memory stick. I think I need the memory stick to have a GPT (GUID Partition Table) and a System Firmware Volume format thing, or something, format it as FAT32 (or FAT/FAT16?) as well as then putting the file at ( Read more... )