Clothing Care Labels
Thursday 21st Feb 2008 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 09:31PM
Ever wondered what all those little symbols mean on the labels in your clothes? Those strange circular and triangular hieroglyphics, well while researching how best to wash some of my things that I didn't fancy just bunging in the wash I found a hand little guide to tell you what ever symbol means.
Thankfully, I was going to take my jacket to the dry cleaners, however it states on the label that I shouldn't! So it saved me a trip into town with it.
Back From The Dead
Saturday 19th Jan 2008 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 02:29PM
My web space providers (I-Websolutions) finally bit the bullet mid-week, they'd been offering a pretty lame service level for a couple of months. I've now switched new to a new provider, EUKHosts.
Hopefully everything will start working as its meant as I finish uploading everything. I've also refreshed the design of the site a little to celebrate the new move!
How To Speed Up Firefox
Sunday 14th Oct 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 08:11PM
I'm always a bit dubious about claims to altering your settings in applications will bring some magical extra performance, but this one really seems to work. Try it out for yourself and see if your Firefox flies too.
Feeling exhausted after a good 6 hour Halo 3 marathon session! I've not had a good blasting like that since the old days of Halo 2.
Ubuntu boot Up time
Thursday 11th Oct 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 09:26AM
At the moment my laptop takes just over 2 minutes too boot up Ubuntu, I've been looking through the forums though and it appears that under a minute is a reasonable time. Apparently it could be my wireless card that is delaying the boot, this fix has been offered that I'll have to play around with tonight:
Edit /etc/network/interfaces and replace everything in the file with:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Update: This worked really well, my laptop can now cold boot and be on the internet with Firefox & aMSN running also in around 1 minute 5 seconds, fast enough for me!
Dual Boot Vista & Ubuntu
Monday 8th Oct 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 10:11PM
Well I'm about to take the plunge into installing Ubuntu (Linux) onto my laptop and get it to dual boot with Vista. Probably end up destroying the thing, but we'll see.
Anyway, this is the tutorial I'm following.
Update: I had problems with getting Ubuntu detecting the Vista partition on my Dell Inspiron 6400, it seems this problem occurs quite a bit. However I've now come across this post that will hopefully help.
Update 2: I went with the install and it worked beautifully! So I now have a dual booting Vista + Ubuntu setup. I quickly started to miss the MS fonts on the system though, but I soon found a quick fix for that too. Along with a list of free killer apps!
100 Miles Milestone
Thursday 5th Jul 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 08:11PM
I logged into my Nike+ account the other day and it tells me now finally I can have a certificate for running my first 100 miles. Which I apparently clocked up back in November last year. Oh well, its nice to get some recognition finally. I'm only 25 miles away from hitting the 300 mile mark now.
By the way, has anyone seen the fun lately, if so tell him to get his ass back up in the sky. I'm sick of all this rain. Grrr.
Get Into Online Poker
Wednesday 23rd May 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 07:44PM
If you ever feel yourself wanting to get into a bit of online poker then I recommend you check out pkr.com a very slick site that will let you play for money or fun. They've just released a new version of the software that allows you to play in a full 3D environment.
They also provide tutorials explaining the rules if your completely new to the game.
I'm off for a quick game myself when the updates finished downloading. Although I'll be trying to keep an eye on the football tonight as well since its the European Cup final. Come on Milan!
New Laptop
Sunday 15th Apr 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 12:54PM
I bought a new laptop this week, as a present to myself for my birthday, gone for the Dell Inspiron 6400. Seems like a pretty decent machine and I got it speced out quite nicely too.
Just in the process of setting it all up now, while taking in the Bahrain GP, although I'm sweating like a tramp as it's boiling hot outside. Will get myself outside later for a run once the GP has finished.
I Have Gone Insane
Sunday 25th Mar 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 05:31PM
I have spent to long inside and have finally gone mental. At 5:26pm I lost the plot, I need to get outside and find someone to talk to.
I am off work for the next week and it could mean real trouble, time to start clucking like a chicken again.
If you are unsure what a mentalist is, check out the definition on Wiki. You may not hear from me for a while, I need to go away and rediscover what the purpose of this page was for. Moooo
Pancakes Delia Style
Tuesday 20th Feb 2007 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 11:30AM
It's pancake day today so it's time to look up a recipe and knock up some tasty pancakes. I'm a bit freaky and eat them without anything on, right out of the pan. Here's what you need according to Delia Smith:
Ingredients:
110g/4oz plain flour, sifted
pinch of salt
2 eggs
200ml/7fl oz milk mixed with 75ml/3fl oz water
50g/2oz butter
Makes 12-14 (small pancakes I'd say) Preparation time less than 30 mins. Cooking time less than 10 mins.
Scoff the lot and enjoy, I'm planning on beating my record of eating 7 pancakes today.
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