Feb 25 22:55:20 not thinking gets me in trouble
Feb 25 22:55:28 thinking gets me in different trouble
Going over old chat logs is actually kinda fun, although I'm sure I could be doing something better with the time, like, say, SLEEPING.

(I should stress, this isn't related to any current or recent events, it's just one of those "hey, I said ( Read more... )

Oh look! A print of my all-time favourite A Softer World strip. Isn't that neat? (They also have pretty keen t-shirts, too ( Read more... )

In the past 24 hours I have had no less than three DC power supplies die on me. One killed off my 5-CD changer, which hasn't been used much since I ripped everything to MP3 a few years ago, so that's no great loss. The other two were the original PSU for the only decent non-laptop screen in the house - a 15" LCD, uncased -which died at some point ( Read more... )

"Better still, Postbank offers you the security of a banking service backed by An Post and Fortis, one of Europe's largest banking institutions."

Mhmm. Yes. Security.

The governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have intervened with a €1.2bn bailout of one of Europe's biggest banking and insurance companies Fortis. (link)

I got an IM this morning from someone I've not talked to in a long time. It was a url for what appears to be a photo-sharing site. I say "appears to be" as the first thing it wanted me to do was give it my MSN username and password to log in, and it's not a Microsoft site, so I declined and opted to read their T's & C's instead ( Read more... )

waider: it's nasty and cold out there
lou: --> looks out the window at the sun
waider: yeah, that sun is lying.
And indeed it was. Some hours after the above chat, I was snowed on.

Apparently there's been a bunch of suicides in Bridgend, Wales. It's hard to tell if it's abnormal without studying statistics on the subject, but the current google results tell me 17 suicides "since the start of last year" (let's pick an arbitrary starting point to compress our data, right?) There seems to be some debate over whether the 17 ( Read more... )

From 4od Help:
Will I be able to access 4oD on my Mac ( Read more... )

"Enhance Your Experience", it says on the box.

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So while the court was busy shredding mail, it transpires that not one but three private-sector businesses had customer data leaks: Allied Irish Bank, Quinn Direct, and can-we-please-play-even-if-it's-not-an-actual-leak Bank of Ireland. Well done, guys, we can declare some sort of parity with the UK once more...