» by ChrisM May 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 am » Comments (0)

Long term readers/'real life' friends will remember that Irina and I used to live in a cottage out in Bourton on the Water, a real picture postcard village in the ...more »

» by ChrisM March 26th, 2008 at 3:53 am » Comments (7)

My current internet connection is normally rated at 128kbit/sec. They have the cheek to advertise this as unlimited broadband. For starters, an internet connection that is no fast than dual ...more »

» by ChrisM December 19th, 2007 at 4:25 am » Comments (0)

The ISP we now have our internet connection with is called Megaline. Unfortunately, since swapping to their service, everyday sees some downtime for connectivity. Even when all is apparently working, ...more »

» by ChrisM December 3rd, 2007 at 4:53 pm » Comments (0)

OK, melodramatic post title, but in case it flew right over your head, I'm referring to The King Is Dead, Long Live The King! (or Le Roi est mort. Vive ...more »

» by ChrisM July 31st, 2007 at 4:51 am » Comments (7)

So, it turns out our ADSL connection is not quite as unlimited as originally claimed. Once you have downloaded 3Gb in any given month, your speed is then restricted to ...more »

» by ChrisM July 24th, 2007 at 12:50 am » Comments (3)

Just caught this report over on the BBC World news channel. Apparently the American government and GreenPeace (for differring reasons) is not very happy at the prospect of KazAtomProm (the Kazakh ...more »

» by ChrisM July 2nd, 2007 at 1:33 am » Comments (0)

As you may have noticed, I have not posted a great deal this past week, mainly because Alex is over here on holiday, and so I used that as an ...more »

» by ChrisM March 16th, 2007 at 6:05 pm » Comments (0)

Unfortunately, since I ended up re-installing XP just prior to getting my ADSL connection working & therefore downloading a lot of updates, I've used up my 700 meg quota this ...more »

» by ChrisM March 1st, 2007 at 2:13 am » Comments (0)

Found a link to a UK Government beta web site that held a petition on the price of Windows Vista, compared to USA prices. This next caught my eye - .....petition ...more »

» by ChrisM January 24th, 2007 at 10:14 pm » Comments (0)

And this will be a very slow post to load for any other dial up users out there, apologies...Anyway, without much further ado, here are the pictures I promised a ...more »

» by ChrisM November 30th, 2006 at 4:35 am » Comments (6)

For the last couple of hours there was no http transfer, at first e-mail still worked, and Skype was working fine, but web sites and Messenger didn't work. Then e-mail dropped ...more »

» by ChrisM November 28th, 2006 at 2:33 am » Comments (0)

This might be veering towards narcissistic, but as I had downloaded an animated GIF creation package the other day, I decided to try it out. The picture below is the first ...more »

» by ChrisM October 16th, 2006 at 3:18 am » Comments (0)

We took our kitten home, from the in laws, today. Not yet named her, the proposals are Pippa, Socks and a word I've forgotten already (Karra?) that means black in ...more »