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Noisy Tiger

By John, on May 1st, 2005

I upgraded our Macs to OS X 10.4 (Tiger) at the weekend, which went almost smoothly – for some strange reason, Ruth couldn’t print to our networked HP LaserJet 2550L printer afterwards – I eventually got it going using the Line Printer Daemon (LPD) protocol, which I’ve never heard of before. It still needs . . . → Read More: Noisy Tiger

Think

By John, on April 24th, 2005

I bought an Airport Express yesterday to stream music from the 500-odd CDs that we have on loaded into iTunes on our Macs to the stereo in the lounge. When at first the installation refused to work (unusual for Apple – everything is usually very easy to set up), I assumed that the problem . . . → Read More: Think

High time

By John, on March 20th, 2005

We went for a walk in Bad Homburg this afternoon. It was nice to see that, even if they are not out in Schmitten yet, the crocuses are out down in Bad Homburg – we have had enough snow and ice this winter, and are looking forward to some spring weather at home . . . → Read More: High time

Magic pond

By John, on March 20th, 2005

Our pond never ceases to surprise us. This is the view that confronted us when we got up on Thursday last week after the snow and ice started to melt. At the moment there is still a lot of melt-water flowing in, so it’s difficult to say whether the level is holding steady . . . → Read More: Magic pond

The weather is unchanged…

By John, on March 13th, 2005

… and the icicles aren’t getting any shorter!

The saga of our pond continues

By John, on March 11th, 2005

You may remember, we had to have a new pond liner put in last September?

Well, the above is the picture that confronted us when we looked out of the kitchen window yesterday at 6:30 in the morning. The evening previously, everything looked normal. At the moment, we can’t see what or . . . → Read More: The saga of our pond continues

Spam karma – bad spam karma

By John, on March 7th, 2005

Kaydee told us that spam karma was eating his comments and generally being unsociable – naughty spam karma! Since I wasn’t actually having any real problem with spam previously, I have removed it without looking into why the comments were getting eaten. It may well be how I set it up, rather than a . . . → Read More: Spam karma – bad spam karma

A good place to eat

By John, on March 7th, 2005

While waiting, this morning, for the T-Com engineers to find out why we can’t connect our broadband (DSL) connection, which we should have had for a week now, we watched the birds feeding in the garden. (Don’t talk to me about DSL or T-Com – it has taken them a week, so far, . . . → Read More: A good place to eat

Icicles in all sizes

By John, on March 5th, 2005

It is snowing again today (what’s new?), and we have icicles in all sizes in the neigbourhood. The picture of the icicles from the roof is taken from our home office window, the other two were taken nearby on a short walk this afternoon. . . . → Read More: Icicles in all sizes

New spam filter on this blog

By John, on March 1st, 2005

If anyone has problems posting legitimate comments here, it could be because I have implemented a new spam filter (spam karma). So far, other blogs have been using it without problems, so it should be transparent to you. If you have difficulty posting comments, send me an e-mail so I can take a look . . . → Read More: New spam filter on this blog