Well, I had not luck getting the standalone broadband adapter to work (it seems to connect to a wierd other network) and the defrag would not completely compact my hard drive even when I ran it in safe mode. So, what the hell, I left the PCI DWL-G520 in the machine and put the first SuSe 10 CD in...let's see what happens... - it boots from the CD and tells me "You are about to install 32-bit

I have been toying with the idea of a switch to Linux for ages and yet, somehow, have never gotten around to it. I've had copies of Red Hat, I bought a copy of SuSe 9.3 and yesterday a copy of SuSe 10.0 from The Linux Shop arrived. CJ was running Linux on a dual boot system before he switched to a Mac (and hence OS X) and I've decided the time has come to try to set my machine up dual boot as a

I bought a SonyEricsson P800 about a couple of years ago (the fact that I can't actually remember how old the phone is is one of the very reasons for this blog - assuming searching within it starts working) and since then it has been a bit of a mixed bag. I absolutely love the ability to write on the screen with good text recognition for SMS's, tasks, contacts calendars and the only real

Got back from our seven and a half month round-the-world trip a couple of weeks ago (well more like a month if we are honest I suppose) and, with Camie going back to work in a week or so, our thoughts have turned to a new car. We test drove a couple of very different beasts today. This morning an unexciting but perfectly capable Ford Focus 2.0TDci 5 door Diesel Hatchback in, suitably enough,

Well, it seems as if everyone and, probably, his dog has a blog these days and I did enjoy posting from my round the world trip with Camie so I figured "what the hell" and started an account on Blogger. Hopefully, I will avoid this becoming too narcisstic by the simple expedients of Not publishing the URL until I am sure I have something worthwhile to sayUsing the blog to keep track of something