… is acceptable. Beth had a lovely spa day, apparently, and dinner was superb. I did think of my Cornish folk’s response to the “gourmet” Cornish sea bass I enjoyed. Whereas they wouldn’t usually serve less than a whole fish per person, I received about a 2cm fillet off one […]
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Advice, sometimes frivolous
OS X update 10.4.10 vs USB hard drives
Apple seem to have got this one wrong. People have been reporting problems with: Audio WiFi USB mounting My annoyance has been my PVR-500r video recorder not mounting. I can bear the once that WiFi stopped working.
Read More“To change one’s life,”
Start immediately, do it flamboyantly and allow no exceptions. The psychologist and philosopher William James, quoted in the BMJ.
Read MoreGoodbye to my “No Fear” posters!
Beth is disposing of my beloved “No Fear” posters (that have all sat in a tube for years). Ought to capture the taglines: Precious few are born with it … even fewer know what to do with it. Beaten paths are for beaten men. The best glimpse of heaven is […]
Read MoreComic Life
I just discovered that the Mac comes with a program called Comic Life that makes it really easy to assemble photos into comics and publish them on your .Mac homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/stevenjbaker/comiclife/
Read MoreDo not start a skydiving business in the UK
How could you possibly make one or more proper livings out of skydiving in the UK? (He writes, looking at the weather.)
Read MoreBoeing Boeing
A play about a man running 3 fianceés, all of whom are air hostesses. Reasonably entertaining, but not more than, say, £30’s worth.
Read MoreRiding home from London
Don’t just follow the M4. Leave at the westernmost junction near Reading (whatever number it is) and do the obvious thing: south then third exit (north) off the second roundabout, turning left into the lanes. Just keep following the sun and you end up joining the B road from Newbury […]
Read MoreMargaux
Great birthday wine.
Read MoreReasons people do the wrong work
Why don’t people do the right work? They don’t know what to do. They don’t know how to do it. They don’t have the skills to do it. They don’t have the confidence to do it. You are in their way. All these reasons are management failures. The other reasons […]
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