Category: Non-techie stuff

  • Super Scrabble

    I expected Super Scrabble to take longer to play than normal Scrabble I suppose. It took three hours, but it was great fun. You get so used to the triple word scores being in the middle of the edges with normal Scrabble that it’s a bit of a surprise when they aren’t on the edge…

  • Music and Lyrics

    Saw this at the cinema at the weekend. Yes, it was quite good, and about what I expected really. Hugh Grant is usually quite entertaining, and I think that’s why Sue wanted us to see it. 🙂 Best bit: I think the 80s-style pop video takes some beating. Worst bit: As Jonathan Ross put it,…

  • Broken power supply unit

    Having spent the morning trying to find a replacement PSU for my computer, I’m now left with the old broken one giving off a ‘slightly burnt’ smell in the corner of the room. So, how do you get rid of a broken power supply unit these days? I phoned up the local council to find…

  • Beaten to it

    Found: The Cube! Can it really have been two years since it started?

  • One page of scrap paper left

    For some time now I’ve been collecting single-sided paper (pages that are blank on one side, not some sort of Möbius stationery). I don’t mean I put them in albums. I collect them to re-use. There are kindly people in my neighbourhood that deliver one-sided paper straight to our door — usually estate agents trying…