Month: August 2004

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Flat sale

…under offer? I got an offer on Friday, which I rejected as too low. A new offer is now in, and I’m trying to decide – stick it out and risk losing it, or accept it now and risk not getting a little bit more. The new offer is just £4000 short of the current asking price, but is £2000 short of my mental reserve price.
Decisions…

UPDATE: I’m going to tough it out and see if I can get a little bit more. Fingers crossed.

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Barbeque with…

Tanya, Jeremy (congratulations on both on engagement, and happy birthday to Jeremy), Ian, Sacha, Paul F, Lord Percy, Lady Bren, Kearn, DA, Sarah, Simon and Matt (plus H, of course).

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Football season

I think Brighton have a better-than-average chance of staying in Division 1 (or whatever it is called these days) this season, although yesterday’s match was not the best start we could have wished for. But, in spite of that, I think Brighton’s performance bodes well for the rest of the season.

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Confused

Here’s one for Brian. I am no longer sure that it is my telephone that has died. The situation is as follows:

  • current connection set-up – I have the BT home broadband thingy. My telephone (a BT-badged one) is plugged into the back of my answering machine (also by BT) which is then plugged into one of those mousetail adaptor thingies.
  • the symptoms – when anyone dials in, I can barely hear them, and there is an incredibly large amount of noise. If I try to dial out, I can barely hear the dialtone, and there is the same noise. But if anyone dials in and gets my answering machine, they can leave a message without any problems. If I plug my telephone straight into the adaptor – i.e. not through the answering machine – I still get the same noise problems. The broadband connection works with no problems.
  • the puzzle – to my mind, the above symptoms suggest that there is a problem with the telephone. However, being the clever chappy that I am, I thought it wise to check before buying a new one, and today I brought my telephone to the office and plugged it in here. It works fine. And, before you ask, I did try the connection at home with the broadband connection enabled and disabled, and that made no difference.

So is my phone faulty, or is it the line?

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Incommunicado

My phone has died. Not my mobile, but my plain old landline receiver. I’ve had it for years too. The stories it could tell…

In other news, I’ve been working on an overhaul of my work website. Not a major design change (a couple of tweaks is all), but a major improvement to the content. Watch this space for a launch announcement.

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Busy busy pop busy

No, I don’t know what that title means either.

Anyway, highlight of the day so far was receiving the Uborka Mix CD, a truly yayworthy event if ever there was one.
Lowlight of the week was reducing the flat price again. If it doesn’t sell by the end of the month, then young Dave will probably get a phone call (yes, I know I’ve said that before, but we kept hoping).
And this is bloody difficult.

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Boob

I’ve just been looking at Eva Herzigova’s breasts in the "Bra Loggy" header of this site (click refresh until you see it if you are not familiar with it), and wondered if I should replace them with a photo of Hels’s cleavage.
If I did so, what would be my likely life expectancy?
(We do, of course, already have Hels’s eyes. But you knew that, didn’t you?)

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Beer with…

…Lord Percy, with sightings of Matt and Rachel.
BubbleFun – better in two player format, but worth playing against the server nonetheless.

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Off your trolley

Tesco plan to kit trolleys out with DVD players for kids according to this news article. The manufacturers, Wanzl, believe that this advance represents "a new dimension of creativity to an existing product". Hmm. I think it could be another good reason to add to my list of reasons for not visiting Tesco.

Personally, if you want innovation, then you need this:
Big Cart
Image shamelessly stolen from National Cart Company Inc..

Meanwhile, check out The Center For Prevention of Shopping Cart Abuse. Very worthy.