Special guest…
We cover so much ground and so many topics in this week’s podcast that, frankly, I couldn’t list them all for the website. That’s because
Good old BT (the latest update)
So, to recap, we have been experiencing on-going problems with our BT Vision box. Daily rebooting, to make the thing work; dropped menus; dropped (paid
Good old BT (this morning’s version)
I was struggling to download a package that I have to edit – struggling, because my download speed was around the same levels as last
Good old BT
I haven’t really chronicled my current battle with BT yet. I’ll just say that my first phone call with BT’s overseas call centre actually had
Sunday morning in the Big Brother house
Sophie has just gone back to bed with a cup of tea. She’s now reading. Bren is downstairs. He has just backed up many websites
A judge says… (some dubious things)
Whilst passing sentence on Sean Goodfellow and Murray McAllan, both found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, temporary judge Kenneth McIver said, ‘As in
Video (from the Latin: ‘I see’)
I’m desperately trying to keep this away from a Bristol-related rant. And also I’m going to work hard to keep this away from an ‘Underage
Blogging bullets
17th March, 2004 My first blog post Over here I’m re-reading it all Sad git
Ha-ha, fooled you!
Yesterday Soph and I drove in to London, parked the car at Queensway and caught the tube to Mile End where we met Ash for
A very Spanish show
This week’s digital broadcast (or podcast, if you prefer) is out and bouncing around every corner of the interwebs. It’s a very Spanish affair –
Sometimes I actually *like* winding people up
Dear Aurora Berg, I feel eminently qualified to assist your company in a diverse range of operational solutions, but I feel that I could add
So, this eventing lark…
Ho hum. The commentary starts before we even left the yard because Tom, evidently, was having one those days. Tom, who normally marches up the
Gone phishing
So the phishers/scammers are at it again and this time they’re almost but not quite clever. An email screeched in to the podcast’s gmail account,
Ups, downs, lefts, rights and straight-aheads
Edited: Saturday times in This Saturday Tom and I are competing again. If you’re in the Ascott-under-Wychwood/Burford/Charlbury area, the British Eventing One-Day-Event is free to
And the world gets more screwed up…
According to this headline in The Daily Mail, a senior circuit judge has been ‘forced to resign after a passionate affair with a male prostitute’.
Two days in 50 minutes
I’m watching ‘My Super Sweet 16UK’ on Viva. I am gobsmacked. Spoilt little bitches like this actually exist in this country? They should be held
Thanks for the feedback!
I’d like to thank my mother for not practising birth control, and my agent, and my publicist… Thank you for the comments on the vids,
Driven to distraction 3
The journey concludes with part 3 of 3. Obviously… Part three of my drive from home to the stables, accompanied – on this leg –
Driven to distraction 2
The journey continues with part 2 of 3… Music by Norwegian Recycling, possibly the greatest mashup artist in the world.
Driven to distraction
Ages – months – ago, I said that if I could find a way to *safely* mount my video camera in the car, I’d give
People should not be allowed to drive!
We were in Witney’s Tesco Express, just a few moments ago, buying chocolate and other *cough* essential provisions. The woman in front of us was
And here is the news…
(from the ‘Oh My God’ department of common sense) Professor Allyson Pollock, director of Edinburgh University’s Centre for International Public Health Policy has produced a
Getting ready for the weekend
Personal mobile phone fully charged? Check! Podcast mobile phone fully charged? Check! Videocamera batteries fully charged? Check! Digitial still cameras (2) batteries fully charged? Check!
Happy Birthday!
8am. It is Soph’s birthday today. Thirty-one. 31. We’re sitting on the couch, Soph’s opening her cards and presents and I’m enjoying watching her facial
Stream of unconsciousness…
This is a test piece of writing… It’s been said many times before, that the most intimidating thing, for a writer, is a blank page.
A Super-hero meets a fan
(a storyboard by Vin…)
People Problems
I have a friend, let’s call her Amanda Nicol, who, in 2003, wrote a highly insightful and devastatingly emotional novel about a young guy and
Apple; treating users like they just don’t matter
Full title: How Apple could take a leaf out of Microsoft’s book and enhance the user experience… My laptop is downloading the latest iTunes update
Horses, illnesses, bikes, writing, music
… and the bitter taste of something… bitter-tasting… Horses: So, that scoundrel Tom. Tsk. Tom is nothing but a worry to his ‘dad’. He spends
Big Brother, season 11
Updated 16th July 2010, edit identified below The (allegedly) final series of Big Brother is upon us and do you know what? It’s nowhere near
Whistling like a boiling kettle
I am not well. No! Please, you have to at least try to keep that massive outpouring of grief and sympathy in check. It’s just
The birds and the bees. And the cats
Since we moved in to this house, almost two years ago, we have had a running battle with every cat in the parish. The house,
Saturday’s One Day Event
By the time Tom and I got to do our stuff the photographer had all but given up and gone home. Well, we were the
Fuel for Thought
I am in pain. Not the deep, dark, tortured pain that we all literary geniuses suffer. This is a more intense, physical kind of pain.
Leading from the rear
We were working in for the dressage phase of the Ascott-under-Wychwood Horse Trials when I heard Tom’s near-hind shoe flapping. Fortunately the farrier on call
Testing times
Tom’s times for the Ascott-under-Wychwood British Eventing Horse Trials are: 15.16: Dressage 17.43: Show-jumping 18.31: Cross-country If he Show-jumps like he did on Sunday, we’ll
A hot, horse-centred weekend
The Brize Norton/Witney forecast for this weekend is 23c and sunny on Saturday and 20c and sunny on Sunday, which is good and not good.
Cat got your tongue?
I went to the stables at the livery yard to get my pony in for the night. When I walked out to the field I
Some more bad writing
Lest anyone thinks bad writing is solely the domain of foreigners… The BBC News website (http://news.bbc.co.uk) is home to writing crimes too. Some. What does
The fine art of critical writing
Leading on from the last post, it seemed logical to look at a good example of professional writing. Instead, though, I’d like to share an
The writing is on the wall
There are so few contemporary writers who are truly excellent. And by using the words ‘truly excellent’ in this context, I mean writers who have
BT outage, 01993 exchange (part 4)
Friday 28th May 2010, 7.20am I ran through what has become a daily routine; switch off the router and BT Vision box, make a mug
BT outage, 01993 exchange (part 3)
Thursday 27th May 2010, 5.50am I try to load web-pages, run an FTP command and access BTs own NNTP server. I also try to access
BT outage, 01993 exchange (part 2)
Wednesday 26th May 2010, 5.40am I try to load web-pages, run an FTP session and access BT’s own NNTP server. All of these functions fail.
BT outage, 01993 exchange (part 1)
Tuesday 25th May 2010, 7pm For the second time in the last couple of weeks, our BT Broadband and BT Vision services have dropped out.
Pissed at BT
Soz for being so quiet. We’re both still here but we have no broadband service (no BT Vision too, but that is less important). We
Phonio, phonio, wherefore art thou phonio
On 21st May 2009 – yes, 2009! – I started, failed to finish and left languishing in ‘drafts’ this post. Time to shake the dust
OMG I am turning in to my wife!
There’s a strange smell around here; it is most peculiar. It is lunchtime and I’ve just had breakfast. That’s nothing to do with being lazy