At Home with John and Debbie

I exchanged the DigiFusion for a Ferguson FDT600.

Everything seems to work OK and TiVo is happy. Rejoice with me.

It’s easy to forget that digital equipment can wear out, but it looks like our Freeview receiver is on its last legs. Whether components have worn out due to extended use, whether it can no longer cool itself sufficently, or whether there’s some other reason, it seems to crash unpredictably as often as once [...]

My Mario Kart DS Badge - (Flickr user ukslim).
Have you been racing me? If your opponent was called →slim� and he had an orange Dreamcast badge like this one, then you were. I expect you beat me.
Subversive, huh?

With Chasetown being the other Midland Alliance team to make it to the first round of the FA Cup, today was always going to be a red letter day. Steve set his TomTom to an arbitrary postcode somewhere in the Chasetown environs, and we took a CSI route avoiding the toll road.
Then we spent [...]

Back in November, I spent a couple of evenings creating a Wikipedia entry for every team in the Midland Football Alliance. Most of them are just stubs, with vital statistics gleaned from the Non-Leage Directory. Leamington, of course, gets a flagship entry, of which I’m reasonably proud, so I thought I’d give it a [...]

There’s a new release of Thunderbird, Mozilla’s rather nice email/news/RSS application.
Things didn’t look good at first: after installing, it would run momentarily then disappear. Apparently this is because I installed it over a previous version — I had to delete everything from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\ and install again. That’s quite poor, and the installer [...]

To celebrate JV’s last day at GSX, we had an extended pub lunch. This led us into town and eventually to the Oxfam bookshop.
I had a look through the sheet music, to see if I could find anything useful for Debbie’s piano learning. I got her a book of piano exercises for children, but [...]

Steve has a blog.
In case his opening post has whetted your curiousity, we had sirloin steak with cream and mustard sauce last night — but I wish I’d bought the steak from Aubrey Allen to properly celebrate Debbie’s birthday, rather than making do with Somerfield’s rather disappointing option. Nobody trusts me to babysit, and [...]

The gale blowing at the exposed New Windmill Ground made last night’s league game an odd one. Tried and tested plays found themselves in disarray as the ball got caught in the wind.
New boy Jody McKay scored in the 10th minute. It looked pretty even, but a second goal never came. Barwell equalised with [...]

I was in town, and I was supposed to be buying Debbie a birthday present — and I did — but while I was there I had a peek through Game’s pre-loved games basket, to see what was on offer, and I came away with a copy of Project Rub for the DS.

Known as [...]