Category: Tim

MASS balloon launches have been banned across Suffolk “(Ipswich) borough’s leisure spokeswoman, Judy Terry, who works in the marketing industry, said she would be advising her clients against using balloon launches after reading about the environmental damage they can cause….. the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) .. is worried that latex balloons are often eaten by…

“Four out of ten pupils could not read, write and add up properly by the time they left primary school this summer, the Government said yesterday.” Times Online Really, it seems to me that it is about time we admitted that the school system doesn’t work. I am not necessarily saying that schools could not…

Jax disagrees with me. She thinks this is blue. It is clearly green. Sadly, both our children have inherited her colour blindness.

(Thanks Sarah)

The driver of a £96k Mercedes SL500 had a lucky escape after her satnav directed her down a winding track and straight into the River Sence. more… (The Register) Could have been worse, she might have been using Google Maps to route her from Felixstowe to Bawdsey.

Jax blogged about our shopping expotition. She didn’t mention that we went to Meadowhall, which is still recovering from the flooding. Quite a while ago, I forget quite when, my posh Sony K800i mobile phone died on me. So I got a PAYG replacement, another Sony but a much lower range model (K750i) and took…

Promised a link to this to the Beans. Here it is:- JkDefrag v3.8 Why is this a good idea….. The Great Defrag Shootout VIII: JkDefrag v3.8 also mentions PageDefrag, which is another jolly good, free thing.

(no idea what this is all about – but it looks pretty)

Looks like we might actually set off for the party today on time! That’ll be a first.