Archive for November, 2005

Focus wash/wiper switch/stalk

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I’m posting this so that hopefully other people who own a Ford Focus will find this. Over the weekend the windscreen washers on my Focus stopped working. This was a bit of a bugger given the crappy weather so on Sunday I pulled it apart and removed the switch as a prime suspect. A bit [...]

one of those days…

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Spent much of the day at the First Lego League taking photos. Quite fun but still annoying how most of the teams rely on programming their ‘bots with “Forward for 2 seconds, right for 1 second” mentality instead of using the sensors to navigate in a more reliable way. Anyway, just as the thing was [...]

this made me laugh

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Spotted this on the bbc news site last night and could help but laugh. Sounds like a sketch from the Two Ronnies or something

Sun support… WTF??

Friday, November 18th, 2005

I’ve mentioned before some of the problems we have been having with the Sun Java Enterprise System suite of programs. I’ve deliberately *not* posted too much about it but given the number of Sun ips I’ve noticed visiting recently and the fact that I’ve had a shitty week I think I’ll have a rant.
There [...]

Welcome Mrs Biddle

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

A little bird (well, not really little. Not actually a bird either to be honest) tells me that Mrs Biddle is reading my blog. All of the websites on the internet and you read this twaddle?
Go on, post a comment and reveal yourself…

odd SMS messages

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

no, I don’t mean the spam ones. Just messages that seem slightly odd now I read them but probably made sense when they were sent.
While standing in the rain waiting for Jake to come out of school the other day I started fiddling with my phone. I don’t really do SMS. Can’t usually see the [...]