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Catching Crayfish

Took Sophie down to the river today for some cray fishing.
The river near us is teeming with the American “Signals” so it didn’t take to long to grab some little monsters.
Our high tech equipment inculded a plumb line I found in a draw with some bacon tied to it, plus a cheap fishing net we [...]

Back :)

Back from the wilds of Suffolk and there are still builders in my house hitting things with hammers.
Normal service will resume.

Holiday

Currently enjoying a couple of weeks away from the house whilst builders create mess.
Posting will resume next week hopefully.

Dust Everywhere!

Argggghhhh, the house is filled with builders and there is dust everywhere…
Who thought having an extension was a good idea, I’m sure it was nothing to do with me.
Sorry for the lack of updates but I’m struggling to get anything done round here as you need to remove a thick layer of dust [...]

April Fools…

…Oh how amusing they all are…
I’d almost forgotten about it but the BBC reminded me with their flying penguins.
Roll on next year’s hilarity.

RIP Arthur.C.Clarke

I’ve been away for a few days but I heard the sad news whilst I was travelling. Another great mind gone but he leaves an incredible collection of work for us to enjoy.
I do find it strange though how the people of ‘literature’ who so often try to distance themselves from and generally have little [...]

Divx Stage6 Shuts Doors

I heard about this last week and it really is a shame but Stage6 shut down on Feb 28th 2008.
This closure puts an end to a great source of high quality streaming videos and one of the best sites around for streaming videos to Xbox Media Center.
Here’s hoping an alternative turns up but considering the [...]

Theme Change (Again)

OK so I’m back with the old Prosense theme now I’ve had time to play around with the CSS. I prefer the simplicity of this theme and I’ve now found a way to throw different stylesheets to *cough* Internet Explorer so that I can fix their bugs make my site display correctly.
I may write a [...]

Free Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme – Maximum Adsense 02

OK so you might have noticed the slightly changed theme of the site. I had a few problems with the old theme doing some weird things with images and text floating in Internet Explorer.
So after a bit of hunting around I found the free Wordpress theme Maximum Adsense 02 here.
I quite like the look of [...]

Internet Explorer Crapness

I am currently trying to investigate problems with the site displaying correctly in Internet Explorer. Please bear with me or get a decent browser.
Might be some strange changes as I randomly change the stylesheet to try and make IE behave.