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  • Desire

    Boxing day sales today. As a husband, my job is mostly to hang around and carry things, prefereably not wandering off. During the interminable queues for access to the fitting rooms the husband has to find something to do. And since he is standing in the ladies apparel department, he needs to be somewhat circumspect.…

  • These things come up fast

    Can’t believe that another one of these Christmas days has snuck up on me. Oh well. A good meal was had by all. Cheers

  • Why oh why

    One of the annoying things about Win32 has always been the fixed sized dialogs. You know how it is when some program pops up a dialog with a lot of information in it, but is modal and small (presumably so it will fit on 640×480 screens, or worse). Then you are stuck scrolling around…. I…

  • The power of one…

    I love the geographically challenged. Owning a WD external drive I thought I’d get another one, this time with firewire since my laptop has it available. After tooling about trying to find an Australian vendor, I thought I’d check out WD’s website, at least they should be able to point me to local resellers. The…

  • Why is my car handling funny?

    Hmm, several hours into a drive to see my dad, I thought it might be time to stop and take a break…it seemed like I was wandering about the road a little…. Bang! Looks like I ran over something. Wish I hadn’t, no serious harm done, but bad luck is still bad.