Category: Thoughts

Amazing what you can find when you start looking. I went up into our loft to get down the old BBC computers I’d kept from ages ago, and they were in better condition than I thought they would be. I also found a computer (an HP 9000/340) I’d forgotten about completely. I still don’t quite…

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…

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…

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

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…