I know that kids used to bring home the school guinea pig or hamster, but bringing home an alligator on the school bus seems to be asking a bit too much. I’ve no idea why the bus driver let the alligator on – I know there’s no way I’d let something like that on my bus. Thanks Angela for the post
Month: March 2004
I’ve started to see quite a lot of press about Skype and did wonder how they were going to make their money as their plan to offer free voice calls to other skype users seemed to be a great idea but bound to crash under the volume. However, The Register reports that Skype are likely to charge for premium services. Not sure what these would be. I don’t know anyone who uses Skype – hands up anyone?
From a technical mailing list I received today, apparently if your PST file goes over 2GB then it will get corrupted. However, Microsoft offers a tool that truncates oversized PST and OST files so you can recover at least some of the information in the folder. Commonly referred to as the “Crop Tool,” this file is now available from the Microsoft’s Exchange 2000 Tool: PST2GB Web page. Although this won’t ensure full recovery of all the data, it may help to recover *some* data.
I had a problem with “There was no response from your mobile device while checking for out-of-date appointments” on the Dell this morning when trying to synch. It worked earlier today and suddenly stopped working. A quick google search turns up several results, but ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide – Synchronization Errors has the answer and lots of other answers too which is why I’ve linked to this one.
Kristen suggested that we went to ReaseHeath college for their lambing open day. A quick search on google shows a blog entry for last years lambing which explains how all the lambs are born at the same time of the year. We were very fortunate to see and hold lots of lambs – most of which had been born early this week and we were even more fortunate to watch a 2 year old ewe give birth to the first of twins – that was a really neat sight and something that neither Kristen or myself had seen before. I took some pictures but not sure how they’ll come out as the flash is pretty useless.
Useful CSS sites, HTML Dog and CSS Problem Solving
Public IP – FREE WiFi Solutions – Open Source Wireless Internet gives you the ability to run your own hotspot and it all runs off a cd without touching the hard disk – not sure how you’d create all the accounts you’d need though.Thanks LibraryPlanet
From LittleRedboat comes a great quote – click to read the rest of the story “Then I killed him, peeled him, broke his head into segments and jumped on them
I went to meet my sister and brother-in-law at Castleton today to meet up after the birthday. The weather was pretty grotty so we didn’t go to the Heights Of Abraham as we originally had planned to do. I didn’t think there was much point in spending loads of money to look at the view – of a cloud. Instead we went to Castleton and we went into Speedwell Cavern which was an interesting boat trip inside an old lead mine. The boat trip was about 15 minutes there, with a 5 min stop half way as we waited for the previous boat to pass us – then it was to the bottomless pit (which turns out to be 35ft deep!). Then back in the boat back to the start. It was a very interesting trip and the first time that I can remember for a long time inside a cave (I went to Cheddar Gorge when I was little but don’t remember much about it).
We then had lunch in the Bull’s head (not recommended) although they did give us free parking. That was a relief as parking in the town seemed very expensive with a 3 hours stay costing £3 or more and whats more, the on-road parking is only charged on weekends and bank holidays – so not only do they rip the visitors off, they are blatantly obvious about it!
After lunch we nipped into a couple of outdoor shops and I ended up buying two walking poles (thanks Mum and Dad, Ruth and Tim!) for my birthday and we immediately put them to good use when we walked up a VERY steep hill – past Peveril Castle (although we only saw the Norman Lavatory) along the Limestone way, braving the snow and hail on the top of the hill to find we’d walked along a one way system and we had to go back down again. We all enjoyed the walk (I think) and hopefully Tim will have some good pictures to post here soon. pictures by Tim are online at Castleton Gallery
Yesterday was my birthday so I took a much deserved day off work. The only problem is that today feels like Monday again 🙁
In the morning we went and did a nice cache in the Delamere forest which was a very busy walk meeting loads of dog walkers. We found the cache fairly quickly, despite walking in the wrong direction a few times. Whilst we were signing the logs a dog came up to us to give a sniff to see if we had any food for it. The owner apologised and explained that is what the dog was doing, thinking that the cache container was actually a food container!
The afternoon was spent watching Lord of the Rings as I hadn’t seen it yet. I wasn’t very impressed as it was so long and certain sequences really really dragged. The fight sequences were so shaky and blurry I was wondering if the cameraman had had a shaking fit. I did really like the scenery shots and wished that I could go to some of those locations on holiday.
The evening was going to be spent at a restaurant with some friends of ours, but they got lost coming to our house, so we ended up having KFC with them instead which was still a good laugh. Overall a good day, especially as I didn’t have to spend it in the office.