Following on from last week After last weeks story about the Fujitsu PC, it is worth ending the story to say the PC is no more, having added the additional fans, cleaned out all the other fans and heatsinks, and reapply new thermal paste to the processor. It did not solve the issue with the… Read More »
A few years ago In my previous job I bought a Fujitsu PC for the marketing dept. It had a good spec and it did the job they wanted. But as the years past their (marketing dept.) demand grew as did the demand on the OS. Soon I was being asked to upgrade a few… Read More »
I am an IT person, no I am not super nerdy, no I can not hack in to somebody bank account while sat in an airport coffee lounge before leaving the country. I can build a PC, I can sort out a lot of my own problems, I can do very basic programming and scripting.… Read More »
Having spent Christmas and the New Year with out central heating which is now fixed, why have the lights not working and the washing machine throws an error. Why when you try to contact a tradesman through Check a Trade, they fail to even acknowledge you. Why when you are shopping online and the web… Read More »
I have to say it has been a struggle the last view weeks. Nothing serious for the most part feels like life has been dragging its heels since Christmas. The last few’s days of January I lost 3 people. 2 relatives and a person I used to work with all died within 10 days of… Read More »
It has been a long time, 776 day of waiting. I have been offered a refund, been offered cancellation, found the date had changed without notification. We stuck with our original intention intention, to see the Money for Nothing – Dire Straits tribute band. A cold wet Saturday night saw us walking from the car… Read More »
Its 11pm on the 31st December, I am stuffed. Waited 3 hours for the take out to be delivered (was told 2.5hrs). Apparently the take away has been taking orders for tonight since 17:00 when they opened on the 30th!! I can not wait to see the back of 2021, even more so December, it… Read More »
Everything was going well, finished work Thursday night, planned our early morning raid on Sainsbury (as I outlined in my last post), go to bed. The 5:30am alarm goes off and I am in pain, my big toe on my left foot is throbbing, even wearing a sock hurts (no not gout). I have a… Read More »
Forgot to mention that our daughter had her booster over the weekend and our son had his today, thankfully unlike the last two Astra Zeneca injections, this was Pfizer and it has not hit him like a sledgehammer, he has a dead arm mind you but he can live with that. Strangely the daughter has… Read More »
Those of you that follow this blog know that I broke my wrist back in June this year, there was nothing special about it, I tripped over the kerb put my hands out in front of myself and landed on wrist and knee. Result was a fracture of the Radius in the wrist. From then… Read More »