Category: General

Q. Why do women love England footballers?
A. Because they’re on top for 90 minutes and still come second.

I’d really like email comment notification for my Sun blog… was this ever implemented properly, or am I just missing somewhere to turn it on?

Still trying to feel sorry for England this morning after their almost-Scottish performance against France. But let’s be honest– it was hilarious :o)

I really don’t want to know which Scotsman Seth has in him. He may turn out to be related.

P1,2 [Imm,Urg]=7 (-1 since Jun 1st) in=5, out=6
P3   [High]   =48 (+8) in=16, out=8
P4   [Normal] =244 (+5) in=25, out=20
P5   [Low]    =74 (+1) in=2, out=1
Total Untriaged=32

Full list available here.

Gotta love Fiat… took the barc in yesterday to have its headlights adjusted (amongst other things), and apparently it may still fail its NCT retest because there are fingerprints (not mine) on the inside of the glass that are causing the beam not to focus properly.

Just buy a new glass then? Ah no, Fiat will only sell you a sealed headlamp unit, for 300 euro…

Have just rolled a 2.6.2 release of gnome-themes, which gives greater (but sadly not yet complete, unless you’re running JDS) main menu coverage for the High Contrast icons.

Java Desktop System Release 2 was announced this week, which includes some cool new enterprise management features and Java development tools. The only downside is that it’s still based on relatively old versions of GNOME and the GNU/Linux kernel, but hey– Release 3 should take care of that 🙂

Got my hands on The Official GNOME 2.0 Developers Guide today, for a bargain price thanks to an Amazon.co.uk cock-up 🙂 Whether or not, after ten years of being employed by companies to “design and implement user interfaces”, Sun will be the first where I actually have time to do any of the implementation part, remains to be seen.

Don’t buy a Hotpoint WD61. They eat your clothes.