MyBook USB External Hard Drive – 20/Mar/2007 (Birthday present from Kix)
This quality half-terrabyte Western Digital external hard drive is to replace our now broken NAS drive. Instead of using a NAS drive we have created a Samba share on our server which we find more convenient. This 2nd drive is for backing up our files using rsync to mirror our primary hard disk. We map […]
Downstairs Plastering (19/Mar/08)
We are having the dining room and sitting room re-wired and re-plastered: Before Plastering: During Plastering: After Plastering: After Painting: It’ll be nice to not have to look at the bare brickwork any more. Plus having more than one socket in the room will be a real luxury.
French Door (07/Mar/08)
Since we are having our dining room re-plastered and have stripped the wallpaper, it is the right time to have our window replaced with French doors. We have planned to do it ever since we were looking round the house when it was still on the market: Before: After: It has made the room much […]

Charmeleon (03/Mar/08)
Chloe’s company, Panasonic, have made the whole Thatcham mobile phone development site redundant and are giving the staff their PCs which I’m thinking of as a leaving present. It is a Dell Optiplex GX270 which is a good upgrade but exactly the same form factor as the previous GX260 : CPU: Pentium 4 3GHz RAM: […]