You’ve only had it a week!

Posted on September 24, 2008 by blogmywiki

It always amazes me how quickly my children sometimes manage to break new toys. So it cheered me up a bit to learn that the boffins at CERN (they have a web site you know) have already broken the Large Hadron Collider.

Hope they kept the receipt.

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See, George Lamb IS a tosser.

Posted on September 24, 2008 by blogmywiki

Have a look at this: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/when-hardeep-met-les#comment-57497

I can’t bear listening to the man, but David Hepworth confirms the nation’s suspicion that BBC 6Music presenter George Lamb is a tosser, he knows or cares bugger all about music which is a bit of a failing when you’re on a station that claims to take music seriously.

A few months ago I had the misfortune to hear his interview with Martha Wainwright – he was clearly less interested in the music than in chatting her up. I assume he’d only agreed to speak to her on the strength of the cover photograph of the amusingly-titled I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too.

By the way, worth scrolling to the top of that Word magazine page to hear the cringeworthy BBC WM interview – thanks Westy!

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WiFi forgetfulness solved

Posted on September 24, 2008 by blogmywiki

Following a security update, my PowerBook kept losing its wireless connection when waking from sleep or starting up. Wifi woes solved This was a pain as my WiFi base station doesn’t transmit its SSID and I had to enter its name and long hex WEP key each time I wanted to get online.

Turns out the solution was rather simpler than all the mucking around I’d been doing deleting com.apple.airport files and the like.

I just made a new ‘location’ – its location had been on ‘automatic’, so I went to System Preferences > Network and clicked on the locations drop-down menu and made a new location (called ‘foo’ of course). Since then it’s been rejoining my wireless network ok when it wakes up. Phew! Or should I say ‘Foo!’?

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Super-connected

Posted on September 23, 2008 by blogmywiki

Did a security update on my PowerBook today; now it keeps forgetting my wireless network’s name and password. So it really is very bloody secure as it’s now mostly not connected to the internet at all any more. I forgave this behaviour in a £200 (now defenestrated) Asus eeePC but it’s a bit galling in a £1600 Apple pro laptop. Where’s the window?

Home alone and at a loose end, I Googled ‘cool things to do with a Nintendo Wii’ Wii Transfer (it’s been sitting in the living room not earning its keep) and discovered Wii Transfer. This allows me to stream iPhoto pictures and iTunes songs from the big fat old 320GB iMac in the back room which has all my MP3s on it. I had to shell out £7 for some Wii Points to download the Wii web-browser, but now here I am with a big stupid grin on my face dancing round the living room to the strains of That Petrol Emotion. Doesn’t seem to like long songs, though – the Wii says it doesn’t have enough memory and chokes. So we are spared The Orb’s ‘Little Fluffy Clouds‘ for now…

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Bad dad

Posted on September 21, 2008 by blogmywiki

Possibly undocumented pleasure of family life: my daughter has a pink tube of Lisa Simpson toothpaste; the boys have a blue tube of Bart Simpson toothpaste. The contents are identical. Whenever possible I make sure the boys get toothpaste out of the Lisa Simpson tube, and my daughter gets Bart Simpson toothpaste.

I get my kicks where I can.

Oh, and just now – file under ‘don’t kids just say the darndest things’. William (6) said: “I know what girls have instead of willies. FASHION!”

Thanks William. That explains everything.

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