Refuse and Rovers
Posted in Railways on 29th October 2004
Took a day off work today, ostensibly to get some random refuse which has been lurking outside the flat collected. Neither the usual rubbish collection, nor the recycling people are collecting from the house at present due to the state that a recently departed tenant left things in. So, called...
Teenage Kicks
Posted in SHOFT on 26th October 2004
Today I have a button on my radio I won't need to press any more. Many years ago, I had a book. I used to write down the names of records, the obscure labels and just about every detail I could glean about the records John Peel played. Later, when...
Farewell Fedora
Posted in Computers on 24th October 2004
Yesterday evening I finally decided it was time to move my main machine to Ubuntu. I've hung on to an old Fedora Core 1 installation on this machine for far too long, wondering if my hardware would work with a 2.6 kernel. Things were beginning to get a bit flaky,...