Everyday Life

Broken ADSL :(

Wednesday and Thursday last week Newcastle had a few electrical storms. Fairly mild electrical storms. It appears that one of these managed to kill my home ADSL connection; best guess the port at the exchange is broken. Anyway, this is just a quick note to say everything is working again (I think), and hopefully explains

Clearing the Archives + Face Lift

When I first created this blog, back in 2006, I was not consistent in my writing efforts and the post quality was, at best, questionable. With the release of WordPress 2.1 and semi-inspired by the start of a new semester: I have removed all archived blog entries, chosen a new theme (Mandigo by Tom). I