Encounter with a snake
We have an old fridge on the back veranda, with a box of junk sitting on top. Hubby reached inside to rummage around for something and realised the coiled up thing he thought was rope was actually a live snake! We’d encountered this little fellow a few weeks ago on our veranda, hunting a frog. […]
Hamster Power
Today a woman left a message that her internet connection wasn’t working, “the wheel keeps going around but nothing happens”. Eventually I discovered she was referring to an animated graphic in her Safari web browser program that ‘spins’ when downloading data from the net. My first thought had been that maybe hamster-generated power is not […]
Changing Default Text in WordPress
I’ve just setup a community recipe blog site with WordPress and we’re gradually fencing off some little annoyances to help the site run more smoothly. One of these was the default link text given to the admin section after a user logs in. By default it is “Site Admin” – which I thought was a […]
Merry Christmas 2006
This year was an early lunch over at my parents, with my sister, grandmother, brother, his wife and family (five kids, another on the way). Here is what Santa brought me this year: DH: the complete second series Doctor Who (David Tennant) on DVD. Parents: a gift voucher for a local restaurant Sister: tea towels, […]
Anime & Bobby
Today Jo and I were set to watch a couple of anime movies, since she is studying manga art. I picked up a couple of DVDs from the local hire place – Iria: Zeiram the Animation and Voices of a Distant Star. Iria was split into three episodes (I’ve learned there are another three out […]
Woohoo, exam out of the way!
Had my SSK12 (Intro to university course) final exam yesterday, big relief that it is all over! I enjoyed the work in this unit, even though it was a struggle sometimes with the disaster we had at work – a little bit wistful that but for this I could have got more out of it, […]