southhamster

Just finished watching. We thought it was really good - better than the rather leaden House of the Dragon. Quite low budget but good acting and script and a bit of humour, grimness and crudity in places. Hopefully they will make a series of the other 2 novellas as well!

Ok. My "Derek" was a hidden espresso box... For those of a tender disposition, espresso was a sort of local web cache to serve frequently accessed pages in the days when internet bandwidth was laughably inadequate, think ISDN 128K. I started work as a network manager and engaged new broom mode by clearing out the server cupboard. What's that PC at the back there hidden behind all the random stuff? An old espresso box. Huh, they won't need that, they're on a really fast 2mb line; I'll rip it out. Some time later, "the internet's broken" Ooops... Frantic race to change the proxy settings to redirect to the ISP, not the espresso and a lesson learnt. Until the next time when I disconnected a redundant and not recommended overhead cat5 cable only to find there was no fibre link between buildings..

We'll need to fill up in the next few months and dreading the cost. The price is so random. Oil is truly the devil's fuel, along with King Coal it's even filthier brother. Then you have the hassle of a smelly oil tank in the garden, higher servicing costs and the noise and fumes of the pump, fan and burner. Would love a heat pump, but Mrs. SH would really hate the disruption.

Really looking forward to this. The first 3 series were excellent.

We had a lovely wireless charging trolley for some Learnpads and even then people would put them the wrong way up or jam them in at an angle, or more often than not, just leave them on the top. Sigh...

Interesting image of the eclipse on our neighbour's house.

Could wine be classed as a fruit salad?

Stick on cork tiles? Might be worth a try.

Worth checking any third party ones are made with fire-retardent plastic, some of the cheapies may not be.

Well then, you sir are clearly not a gentleman. Begone!

Just watched the Ipcress File on Disney. Great script and very clever with lots of 60's style.

Also old cars were often pretty light. I could bumpstart my old MG Midget by running alongside with the door open , jumping in and putting it in gear and away we went.

Depending on what the hardware is, is it worth scouting around for secondhand units or likely failures eg a PSU or 2? I reckon dave@ictdirect could be your pal here!