I lost a further 3 lbs this week on the Alli diet. I originally bought Alli through a high-street Boots pharmacy, but since then I’ve bought my subsequent tablets through different routes depending upon which was most convenient at the time. Boots in-store was the strictest which required me to pay to use their weighing-scales […]

These instructions work for getting a O2 Pay-as-you-go Mobile Broadband USB stick to work under Ubuntu Linux. I also tested this using EEEbuntu on the Eee PC. The device that I tested is a Huawei Mobile Connect Model E160, HSDPA USB Stick. Most current models should work, but Huawei do not provide any official Linux […]

Our first camping holiday since having children was at Ruda, Croyde Bay Devon (Parkdean holidays caravan site), we did however go camping quite a lot before we had children. Our second camping holiday with our children was to Ty Mawr Park Resorts Caravan and Camping site near Rhyl in North Wales. We went for a […]

We went to the Dairy Land Farm World (near Newquay in Cornwall), whilst we were on a caravan holiday at John Fowlers in Widemouth Bay. The admission price is the same for children and adults, with those under 3 feet tall being free. I thought this was expensive for children, but by the end of […]

I’ve recently upgraded my blog engine, WordPress. The developers thoughtfully included an automatic upgrade button which I’ve already praised before (WordPress easy application upgrade). The upgrade failed first time, which I think was due to not cleaning up properly last upgrade, but after that was resolved it was the uncertainty and lack of feedback that […]

I’ve added a new tutorial to the Penguin Tutor Linux Tutorial pages. The latest tutorial is on file permissions within Linux, including commands such as chmod, chown and umask. View the tutorial below: New tutorial – Linux file permissions reference document The tutorials are all created in OpenOffice.org and then exported as xhtml for inclusion […]

I do get a number of comments on my personal blog, but no where near as many as I get SPAM comments. In fact at the moment I have over 500 comments caught by the Akismet spam filter in the last two weeks. Sometimes the SPAM gets through, but then needs to be approved / […]

Diet is still going well. According to my BMI I am now overweight rather than obese. What does this mean? BMI or Body Mass Index is a universal way of measuring weight compared to a person’s height. The advantage of measuring weight is that this gives a single target value that can be applied to […]

I bought a new broadband dongle from Phones 4 U today. I went there as they were cheapest for that particularly dongle, but only slightly. That’s the last time I’m going to go in that shop. This is an approximate transcription of the conversation I had to purchase a O2 Play-as-you-go broadband dongle costing £19.55 […]

I originally planned to take my children along to Redditch Fire Station when they had an open day earlier this year. It is near to where we live so it would have been possible to drop in briefly show the kids around a fire engine and then still do something else the rest of the […]