Saturday, June 07, 2008
Must remember
I must remember that I have removed the back from my computer chair. I don't want to be leaning back in it while wearing my bathrobe and falling over and looking a right twat for anyone looking in my bedroom window.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Wireless connection
I'm really baffled now.
Before my wireless adapter thing was hanging over a door on a special extending USB cable - not an ordinary USB cable. I was getting a signal strength of Low Speed 24.0Mbps.
I then moved it - to a position where there was a direct line of sight between it and the wireless access point. Now I'm getting a signal strength of Very Low and a speed of 1.0Mbps.
I just don't know what to make of it.
Peacock dreams.
Edit : It's now at 12.0Mbps although it did go to 54.0Mbps. What the hell can be affectinh it when there is a direct line of sight.
Before my wireless adapter thing was hanging over a door on a special extending USB cable - not an ordinary USB cable. I was getting a signal strength of Low Speed 24.0Mbps.
I then moved it - to a position where there was a direct line of sight between it and the wireless access point. Now I'm getting a signal strength of Very Low and a speed of 1.0Mbps.
I just don't know what to make of it.
Peacock dreams.
Edit : It's now at 12.0Mbps although it did go to 54.0Mbps. What the hell can be affectinh it when there is a direct line of sight.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The strange decline of the paperboy
BBC NEWS Magazine The strange decline of the paperboy
I have great memories of being a paperboy. I did it every weekday morning and then every second weekend. One run meant I had to cross a railway line. Actually - it didn't I was meant to go the long way round, but what would you do - walk 50 yards and across a railway line or walk half a mile to where the road goes over the railway line.
One other experience was delivering early in the morning - a dark, cold winter's morning. I was wearing a "Mod" parka with the hood up. Delivering to a tenement building I was just about to open up the letter box when the door opened. The young woman that came out just saw this dark shadowy type figure standing at her door and ran back inside screaming. She was phoning the police. I was shouting back at her through the letterbox "It's only the paper boy". She later gave me a C120 cassettee as a present for scaring ME. This was a big deal for me in those days as I had only ever used C60 and C90 cassettes. I've still got the cassette to this day.
I've just realised something - I have an old record player/cassette player/cd player. I was about to throw it out. But I'm not sure if I'd have anything left to play all my cassettes on (shows the last time actually played them).
There were two rival newspaper shops in the village I grew up in. Whener the other lot got a pay rise our shop would up theirs to just a little bit more. He'd take all the paperboys (can't remember any paper girls in my time) to the cinema once a year for a treat. Nowadays he might be seen as a pedo for doing that.
At Christmas time any tips we were given went into a box on the shop counter. All the tips would be added up, the shop owner would add the same amount again and then the total shared amongst all the paperboys.
I have great memories of being a paperboy. I did it every weekday morning and then every second weekend. One run meant I had to cross a railway line. Actually - it didn't I was meant to go the long way round, but what would you do - walk 50 yards and across a railway line or walk half a mile to where the road goes over the railway line.
One other experience was delivering early in the morning - a dark, cold winter's morning. I was wearing a "Mod" parka with the hood up. Delivering to a tenement building I was just about to open up the letter box when the door opened. The young woman that came out just saw this dark shadowy type figure standing at her door and ran back inside screaming. She was phoning the police. I was shouting back at her through the letterbox "It's only the paper boy". She later gave me a C120 cassettee as a present for scaring ME. This was a big deal for me in those days as I had only ever used C60 and C90 cassettes. I've still got the cassette to this day.
I've just realised something - I have an old record player/cassette player/cd player. I was about to throw it out. But I'm not sure if I'd have anything left to play all my cassettes on (shows the last time actually played them).
There were two rival newspaper shops in the village I grew up in. Whener the other lot got a pay rise our shop would up theirs to just a little bit more. He'd take all the paperboys (can't remember any paper girls in my time) to the cinema once a year for a treat. Nowadays he might be seen as a pedo for doing that.
At Christmas time any tips we were given went into a box on the shop counter. All the tips would be added up, the shop owner would add the same amount again and then the total shared amongst all the paperboys.
Bought another computer
I decided to buy another computer tonight. Well I decided the night before but someone beat me in that auction. My main computer keeps switching itself off. Normally I change computers every four years. I will spend a lot of dosh getting the most up to date one I can afford. The last one had tv and remote control - unfortunately I never got to use it. Every time I but a computer there is aways something I buy thinking I'll use it in the future but never actually get to use it for one reason or another.
So this new one (second hand actually on Ebay) will just be for surfing the net and emails. watching BBC programs on their iplayer thing which my other computer just switches itself off whenever I suggest it.
I have this computer (the one I am sat at now) for doing my work (spreadsheets etc). Another one for a website I haven't updated in over 2 years. A laptop for taking to the football committee meetings to explain the finances better. There is another computer I have kept - I know not why. I must have upgraded for a reason so why keep the old one.
I've also 6 CRT monitors that haven't been used in two years. Another flat screen one that hjasn't been used. This CRT one I am at just now and the flat screen one in my living room. I should ban myself from Ebay.
So this new one (second hand actually on Ebay) will just be for surfing the net and emails. watching BBC programs on their iplayer thing which my other computer just switches itself off whenever I suggest it.
I have this computer (the one I am sat at now) for doing my work (spreadsheets etc). Another one for a website I haven't updated in over 2 years. A laptop for taking to the football committee meetings to explain the finances better. There is another computer I have kept - I know not why. I must have upgraded for a reason so why keep the old one.
I've also 6 CRT monitors that haven't been used in two years. Another flat screen one that hjasn't been used. This CRT one I am at just now and the flat screen one in my living room. I should ban myself from Ebay.
My healthy meal
I'm just about to tuck into the following meal.
Start off with some pasta shells and dump them in a big pot after they've been boiled and all that. Add some salad cream and stir it about. Add a large tin of tuna chunks. Add some more salad cream and stir again. Add some sweetcorn. Add two tins of pork luncheon meat cut up into tiny cubes. Add some more salad cream and stir about. Finally chop up some celery and add that. Oh, and you might as well add some more salad cream and stir the whole lot about.
Measure into two large bowls and have one of them at 1am which you know you will never finish. Have the remains for breakfast - which will be about 11am as your bed is just too warm to leave in the morning. Then have the second bowl tomorrow evening.
Can you tell I live alone?
Start off with some pasta shells and dump them in a big pot after they've been boiled and all that. Add some salad cream and stir it about. Add a large tin of tuna chunks. Add some more salad cream and stir again. Add some sweetcorn. Add two tins of pork luncheon meat cut up into tiny cubes. Add some more salad cream and stir about. Finally chop up some celery and add that. Oh, and you might as well add some more salad cream and stir the whole lot about.
Measure into two large bowls and have one of them at 1am which you know you will never finish. Have the remains for breakfast - which will be about 11am as your bed is just too warm to leave in the morning. Then have the second bowl tomorrow evening.
Can you tell I live alone?
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