Infernus

Nevertheless, the erosion of our civil liberties continues unabated. Who would have thought the Conservatives would turn out to be less authoritarian than Labour?

At long last we decided to make use of the Eurostar terminal but two stops up the tube from us and go to Paris for the weekend. It is remarkable at just how much of the time the fast trains spend drifting along at suburban speeds, both in France and on the UK’s antiquated rails. [...]

My last employers were kind enough to give me a cheque upon leaving. This makes a nice change – normally there’s guessing involved and it’s all rather inconvenient. What’s more, the company topped up the sum donated by my kind colleagues – an example more should follow. So, money to spend in London. Whatever to [...]

Microsoft have released the public beta of WIndows Vista, the much delayed successor to XP. As such, being mad, I downloaded and installed it. Of course I didn’t want to break my games machine, so I installed in over the XP installation on my MacBook Pro. Luckily my important data wasn’t summarily wiped, so I [...]

While the rest of the country (bar tourists) were tied up watching the football we decided to go and have some tea at the Tea Palace in Notting Hill. It has a wonderful selection – many, many fine teas and, just to ensure you don’t try them all at once, it’s on the expensive side [...]

Given that Opera is now free (as in beer) I’ve been giving the new beta version a try at work. After all, it’s fast, it’s small and everyone sings its praises, so I thought it was about time I gave it a spin. Opera goes for the Netscape approach – squeeze in a mail client, [...]