Increase of Quality ‘Me-time’ and How to Use It

The first week in the new job has taught me one thing - I will have more time to myself. Whereas previously, I gave most of my time to other people and their needs (at work: everything, including my week-ends and evenings if a job needed finishing; at home: ‘running the house’, i.e. all household [...]

Ryanair to fly from Hahn to Edinburgh

Ryanair today announced that they are to have a new base in Edinburgh, with new routes to be added including Frankfurt (Hahn) - Edinburgh!
This is great news as it means that my mum and sister can come and visit me soon. The first (and only) time my mum visited, she landed in Prestwick.
There will also [...]

The IT Crowd

Today I had yet another run-in with IT
I phoned them to ask them to install Firefox on my computer, and their response was ‘this has to be signed off by your line manager… and we need to know the business reasons/benefits for it.’
Wow! The business reasons for using Firefox! When I’m struggling along [...]

My Computer At Work

The computer I’m using at my new work only has 256MB RAM. It runs Windows XP Pro but only has IE6 installed as web browser. No Firefox, no nothing, and obviously I don’t have admin rights (though I asked for them on my first day  ).
It’s really difficult working with a machine like that [...]

New Job - First Day; Hard-Fi Gig

I was going to talk about my first day, but I’ll leave it till the end of the week so I have a proper and good first impression (I remember anaj blogging very early on in a new job, saying she’s loving it, only to quit a few weeks later ).
Just after the induction [...]

New Job Starting Tomorrow

My new job is starting tomorrow, and I haven’t managed to relaunch my blog yet
It’ll have to wait until… eh… dunno. I still haven’t had a full day off, by that I mean a full day to myself to just do what the hell I like! E.g. staying in bed all day reading, [...]

Web 2.0 Peaked in 2007

I’m going to say something controversial today. The goldrush of web 2.0 is over. 2007 was the year of Facebook, and of brands latching on to social media, desperate to get a slice of the action.
Now, everyone seems to have sobered up a bit. Facebook is seeing a decline in its users, while YouTube have [...]

HTML Knowledge is Useful

I’m an old school HTML coder. Well, I hardly ever create websites these days, but I used to in the days of Allaire’s HomeSite. I loved that program!
Adding the blog ‘widget’ the other day for the ‘Work Your Proper Hours Day’ - campaign made me think that I want to always have at least one [...]

Blog Relaunch

I mean to relaunch my blog today, but haven’t got round to doing it. Went to IKEA today to buy a nice workstation, and have spent all evening putting it together!
Tomorrow I’m sorting out some banking stuff, and I’ll be getting a book out of the library in preparation for my new job, which starts [...]

George Galloway commenting LIVE on Fidel Castro’s stepping down

George Galloway was wicked last night in a Channel 4 - news live interview (the 7pm news). He accused Ch 4’s coverage of the story as Fox News propaganda, and in his excellent polemic attacked the US for their 50-year-embargo on Cuba. It’s good to see that Socialism is alive and well, and I actually [...]