I am no longer a Hardy Heron. The PC I used started playing up. First it wouldn’t connect to the internet through the cable and then the wireless. I tried lots of things but in the end gave up as I didn’t have the time to play. I ended up stripping it of its memory to upgrade my son’s pc too. Read more

I’ve been chasing kids and cats lately - less than two weeks before relative sanity can return and we think we’ve stopped our naughty Bengal escaping through the hedge into next door’s garden (the garden with the rottweiler in it!). Thanks to the efforts of my parents I now have a greenhouse ready for growing my own veggies etc and will be spending time pottering over the winter lol. Read more

Besides my IT and web design work I also write - as in poems, stories etc. Read more

Just an update on what else I’ve discovered… Read more

A ‘hardy heron’ to be exact. I finally fully installed and updated ubuntu on my linux pc. Read more

I’ve been messing around with an old PC and installed Linux Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04). No problems with the installation, especially after recently installing Windows XP and comparing time/ease etc. However, I am real close to uninstalling