
Posted in London on 3rd June 2005
Came up to London yesterday morning having failed miserably to obtain cheap tickets from Great Western for this morning. Checked into the Cosmo, after waiting a while for a member of staff to show up. Glad to see its still the same, no frills establishment which I've grown to love....

Posted in Computers on 1st June 2005
Last week I promised to help a friend get DSL up and running, but stumbled at the first hurdle as Windows NT4 did not even recognise the USB ports on the machine, let alone run any of the supplied software! I suspected an upgrade to Windows was required. It would...

Posted in Railways on 30th May 2005
Woke to the news of the grounding of the entire Virgin Voyager fleet due to a problem at Barton Hill last night. Not surprised to find the 0832 from Weston cancelled on my arrival at the station. Originally plumped for the 0837 stopper, but was persuaded by announcements to risk...