I just had a phone call from the Fire Station that had an open day on Saturday.
My 2 year-old son has won a colouring competition!
I wonder what the prize is…

The one thing that I’ve noticed about Marillion’s recent album release, Somewhere Else, is that it provides Marillion with the opportunity to release pun-tastic releases based on the original album. ‘Something Else’ was the bonus DVD, there’s the forthcoming ‘Snow-where Else’ Christmas tour. I’m sure that the ‘making of’ CD will probably get called ‘Nowhere [...]

Following up on a post about recovering bad disks and reiser file systems, here is a list of ddrescue commands to help make life that little bit easier:
Backup MBR (boot code + partition table):
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr count=1 bs=512
Restore boot code + partition table:
dd if=mbr of=/dev/hda
Restore, not including partition table:
dd of=/dev/hda if=mbr bs=448 count=1
Saving partition sizes [...]

A fellow Marillion and Fish fan, Jon Collins recently posted that he’d sort me out a curry after comparing Fish’s new album 13th Star to cooking.
As I’m inept at cooking, I’ll take his word for it – but I thought I’d check out Mr. Collins’ credentials in a proper style. Readers of this blog (ha! [...]

Now, I want to begin by saying that I don’t believe in psychics.
I don’t believe in phenomenal paranormal abilities.
I don’t believe that there’s an angel hanging around telling you stuff.
Or ghosts, magical ferrets, or psychotic leprechauns.
OK – so you get the message. I’m a logical guy. I believe that everything has an explanation grounded in [...]

I found a useful website that lists a number of handset codes for S60-series phones.
What’s very handy is that it lists a number of reset codes that could be useful if you get unstuck with your phone.
If anyone knows me, they’ll know I have a love-hate relationship with my Nokia N80 and Orange. This helps [...]