Category Archives: Home Life

I dicovered DosBox a few weeks ago. Discovered pherhaps is not quite the right word as I was actively searching for something like that. Basically I wanted to play one of my old games (toon struck) and it refused to … Continue reading →

A slight miscalculation. The old PC I had lying around was a really old one. I was correct about it only having 128Mb of memory and running FC3 becuse I couldn’t upgrade beyong that (and still dual boots Win95, wow). … Continue reading →

Iron Chef America is one of my favourite programs, but annoyingly it has never been bundled into a DVD distribution and there has never been any intention by the producers (at least from the google searched I spent hours on) … Continue reading →

I have found a new doggie treat that Fletcher will actually eat (well after he has completely licked the liver flavoured coating off it anyway). A love ’em liver chew, sort of like a tux dog biscuit in consistency but … Continue reading →

Have you all seen the Recipes+ magazine. This month it even has cheesecake. The Recipe+ magazine comes out monthly in NZ, and every month has 200+ recipes (with pictures) for NZ $3.90, I have stopped buying cook books. Why pay … Continue reading →

Well theres a bit of exitement over tomorrow nights lotto, with $35mil up for grabs now, that must go. Probably no first division winner again so it needs to be split over the winners of the second division; or third … Continue reading →

Really getting annoyed with Windows XP. The problem I mentioned in the post on April 10 keeps coming back. It keeps reporting it has found new hardware and adding lots of IEE1394 Texas Instruments devices, and I mean lots, over … Continue reading →

Got a bargain on trademe today. A desktop with 1GB memory, twin 40GB hard drives (with bays for two more disks), cd writer plus dvd write (plus bays for two more of those as well, why would anyone want to … Continue reading →

Is there something the manafacturers know we don’t ?. We have all seen the ads where it is put over a wine glass and the glass tipped, and no liquid comes out. But are you like me when I use … Continue reading →

Bother, it has started. Birds are all over the place again, field mice are all over the place again, lots of slamander things are all over the place again. My bloddy cat has started bringing them all home again, and … Continue reading →