A couple of years older for two
Well, Maia and I have had our birthdays for this year and of course we’re a couple of years older. We decided to all go out and celebrate both birthdays together at a restaurant at the local Shoppin... Read More
Back to the disks
I can remember when we first got our first computer back when I was still in high school (386SX 16 with 2Mb RAM, 60Mb HDD, no sound card or CD-ROM with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0 on 5″ disks) the bigge... Read More
I live again
Lightning flashes and thunder rumbles in the darkened sky overhead. A heavy rain starts to fall as the heavens open up. The ground is sodden from the downpour which causes the earth to open up. A crac... Read More
Not another penny/yen.
I’ve liked The Simpsons ever since I first saw them when they were first on Australian TV and was very pleased to see that Fox started releasing them on DVD in cool box sets with heaps of extras... Read More
A while and a bit
It’s been a while and a bit since the last entry here (6 months – oh!) – since nearly having fish fingers for tea one night we’ve been to Australia (flew Korea Air again) ̵... Read More
Not quite fish fingers
It’s been a while since the last entry, it’s been getting hotter, work is going steady. There seeem to be a never ending list of things to do and not enough time to do them in. Maia has be... Read More
Do the floppy disk shuffle.
You think trying to find a working floppy disk would be easy – but nooooo. I’ve been through about 5 blank ones so far and all of them have “issues” bad sectors on them. You th... Read More