The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 2 February 2004 / John
And so another week begins. Was through in Glasgow at the weekend. Godawful miserable place, that. It always rains for some reason. I’ve also started the laborious process of migrating Miserable Bastard to Black Cat Networks. Well, I’ve set up a .co.uk domain for it while the .com transfers, but there we go. I’m feeling
Ramblings / 24 January 2004 / John
The engineer came on Thursday and the washing machine is now in working order. Im not sure if I should write to Watchdog or lodge a complaint to Comet After Sales Service themselves or to just leave it alone. I think it is absolutely disgusting for us to have to rely on friends/neighbours and to
Ramblings / 21 January 2004 / John
The simple fact is, I started a nice new shiny job on the 12th of January. I now work for the esteemed Navyblue Design as Senior Systems Architect. It has been, to put it bluntly, an education. Very very busy, very creative. I seem to be surrounded by people with real vision, and as a
Ramblings / 20 January 2004 / John
It has been 26 days since we phoned Comet After Sales service about our washing machine. After promising us that we would have a working machine on Monday then they have let us down. They have booked an engineer on Thursday (provisionally – they still have to confirm that) and if there is a engineer
Ramblings / 18 January 2004 / John
The first week of John’s new job is over now and he is very tired but says he has enjoyed it a great deal. Its been really strange but nice as Ive had some time with Harmony and a couple of hours on my own in the house. The walks up and down the road
Rants / 9 January 2004 / John / 0
Isn’t Sky Digital great? Isn’t it though. It’s such a good idea! In the days of terrestrial only TV, things were pretty clear cut. You paid the license fee and you got BBC1 and 2, both funded by the license, which showed no advertisements whatsoever, and you also had ITV and Channel 4 which showed
Ramblings / 1 January 2004 / John
Ok, so here’s what you do for the best cashews *ever*. Right, you’ll want some raw cashews (from the baking section of tesco), vegetable oil, some freshly ground black pepper, and some salt. Beside the cooker, lay out a pan with a sieve over it, and two plates with a couple of sheets of kitchen
Ramblings / 1 January 2004 / John
….and thank God for that. We made it – I’m off to have “We Survived 2003” T-shirts made. Anyway, a new start this year. Start my new job in a few weeks, we’re back in our newly refitted house, and I’ve just built an enormous curry for New Years Day lunch. I’m frighteningly organised today
Ramblings / 31 December 2003 / John
Our 2 week old washing machine is broken. We have to wait till after the new year until the parts arrive and are fitted. Doh. I was standing at the sink at 11 o’clock at night last night washing a sink full of clothes. Not good. I have to say that I admire the women
Ramblings / 28 December 2003 / John
Some of you might remember that I’ve written a bunch of freeware video games – remakes of old Speccy and C64 titles. Out of interest, they’re available on http://www.yoyo.org/~jmd/games/. Anyway, it all started with a truly awful Repton clone called Lizards which I wrote in 1995 or thereabouts. The game was pretty bad, but did