Would you Adam ‘n Eve it! Woke up yesterday morning to discover we had no water! Kristen’s first thought was to call the plumber back! Checked the water and we had no water. Eventually rang the water company (after having to go online first to get the phone number!) and discovered it would be off until 6pm (turns out it was off until 10pm!) so we had great fun trying not to use the loo all day! Had a nice meal out at a friends house and I had a go at archery – good fun and I have a straight eye – although consistently aiming high. My fingers hurt this morning from pulling the string back though!
Plumbers been again!!!! This time though we have two new ball cock thingies and no drips – I really hope this is the last visit as its a right pain!
Also found a new email washer program. This enables you to automatically bounce spam emails back to the senders by checking against various spam lists. The only downside to that is that a lot of them use fake emails…still it marks your email address as invalid to the legit (if thats possible) spammers. Mailwasher. Can’t remember where I found the link to this.
Found another program in my war against popups and banners. Proxomitron (weird word!) seems to do the job pretty well and seems quite advanced. You do need to be a geek to use it though!
Hmmm – had a link to www.ukgolfer.helsby.org appear in my log files. Seeing as though that site doesn’t officially exist I was quite suprised. Then noticed it had been clicked on twice! For the curious, that actually ends up at the pictures of the K3 Go-Karting final last year. If you know where the link came from the let me know!
Got a new phone on Thursday with work – a Nokia 6210 – spent Thursday evening getting some tunes downloaded (and composing my own) and playing around with it – its really good! Shame that there is a free offer for a badge which expires on Sunday, but the web site doesn’t accept uk registrations or my id 🙁
We now have water in the house again – since last Thursday we’ve had to keep turning the water on and off each time we’ve needed some water. Plumber came today and fixed it – now its really weird not having to turn the stopcock on and off. Plumber was cheap too!
Shame the same can’t be said for Double Glazing Sales! After 90 minutes (he was 90 minutes late) they quoted us 3200 pounds but immediately dropped it to 2200 if we brought it *soon* – and thats for three windows and a door!!
I’ve lost 2lbs – just in time for Easter and the Easter Eggs 🙂
Just been using Sysprep to clone a laptop in work and couldnt find the timezone settings anywhere! You need to put the number for the timezone and suprisingly enough W2K doesn’t tell you the NUMBER for the timezone that you are in. Eventually found a page that tells you at SWYNK. In case the link goes down, GMT is 85 (Mean Time) , and 90 (without MeanTime). You can also put ProductID=1233-13123-1231-31 in the UserData section so you dont get prompted for it (something that doesn’t seem to be documented on the Microsoft site.