Monthly Archives: February 2012

At moment running off a CD! Slow – but not a real problem! Yesterday checked-out Linux DSL on Ed’s emulator – (DSL= Damned Small Linux) all you need and only 50 meg! Then we tried another OS – Tiny Core … Continue reading →

Linux is struggling with a failed hard-drive but still manages to get online! A replacement machine is on the cards – but a £500 or more job just isn’t needed. The pc might look a bit iffy but normally, with … Continue reading →

On a nice, bright, pre-Spring morning the laffs abound! Attempts to coerce ‘benefit’ claimants into doing something remotely productive (stack shelves initially) are the problem. To get a few ‘NEETS’ into a first job this might sound fine. Sadly those … Continue reading →

A wet morning here as ‘wealth’ in some form seems to dominate the ‘news’. Depending on which rag you read folk govern-mental have scraped-by in January with less of a borrow than expected. Massive taxation didn’t cover the cost of … Continue reading →

It’s quite murky out there this morning with foggy mist obscuring the view. I shouldn’t really even bother but that nice Mr. Duncan-Smith misguidedly advises that, ‘Stacking shelves is better than dreaming of TV stardom.’ A million codicils spring easily … Continue reading →

You can’t really buy a British car. Unless you want one that costs more than your house. The general, run-of-the-mill family taxi-cum-shopping-trolley will, in the main, be imported or of foreign make. You can’t really buy a British TV or … Continue reading →

Bright sunshine this morning but there’s ice on the pond as folk at A4E get a visit from folk of The Fraud Squad. *** The National Institutes for Ageing reckon that starving yourself, as you age, improves one’s life-span. So … Continue reading →

As the normal everyday crises of no jobs, jobs-worths and jobs for the boys drag on to keep us all well skint the old chestnut of ‘drought’ rears-up yet again. Despite worries (worries? who’s worried?) that London and the southern … Continue reading →

We’re under one big cloud here at the moment, with drizzly rain all around. But there are laffs about too if you look. Tesco’s tried advertising for workers on JSA – that’s less than (govern-mentally approved!) minimum-wage (or is it … Continue reading →

A quick read around the papers online brings a few smiles this sunny morning in the peasant north. There is a piece about electric cars – like those pictured. Not only, (imo) would they be totally useless in average northern … Continue reading →