blog.digitaldrain.net http://blog.digitaldrain.net I live in a blog, a very small blog, in the country... Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:07:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en The Rain… http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/11/28/the-rain/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/11/28/the-rain/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:27:47 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/11/28/the-rain/ Well, not much to say really… other than it’s raining. Lots. So, why am I even blogging to tell people about the wonderful weather, well, first off (and this will no doubt become a rant at some point), I hate drivers.

I don’t understand what it is about car drivers, but there’s always that one driver who decides that he doesn’t want to do the sensible thing that everyone else is doing and so, instead of driving around a huge puddle that a pedestrian is standing next to, he’ll decide to drive straight through it, soaking the poor plod. My clothes, at the moment, are held together only by water. But, that’s not the real reason for my post…

This is the real reason:

Bah, brollies!
]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/11/28/the-rain/feed/ Yummy school food… http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/20/yummy-school-food/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/20/yummy-school-food/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:05:08 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/20/yummy-school-food/ Ah, the joys of the healthy foods kick in schools. It’s an excellent idea, getting a load of people to have to cook using real ingredients. Well, the notion’s not bad, but it means you end up with… (if you’re about to eat, look away, quick, look away!):

Mmm... yummy!
]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/20/yummy-school-food/feed/ That’s not how you spell contractor… http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/thats-not-how-you-spell-contractor/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/thats-not-how-you-spell-contractor/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:39:35 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/thats-not-how-you-spell-contractor/ A contractor, of all people, visited me today carrying the plans for a major piece of redevelopment at work.

Essentially, there were three rolls of blueprints, all final versions produced by the county council, which had been with the contractors for a few months… one of which had a rather interesting spelling mistake. See if you can spot it:

Ahem... Spell checkers are important...

Nice to see that the county think the same way as we minor plebs do about contractors…

]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/thats-not-how-you-spell-contractor/feed/ Toxic Waste Jelly causes total disaster! http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/toxic-waste-jelly-causes-total-disaster/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/toxic-waste-jelly-causes-total-disaster/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:17:33 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/toxic-waste-jelly-causes-total-disaster/ The world has gone officially mad… The BBC reports that a substance that had been left by a roadside in Germany managed to escalate into a major alert after some crackpot decided it was toxic waste.

The situation got so out of hand that the fire brigade had to be called and after two whole hours inside protective suits, they managed to conclude that the substance was… jelly.

Toxic Waste! Errr... no... it's jelly

It transpires that the jelly was left by a wedding party, and the groom has offered to clean up the mess… aww.

The full report is here: clicky!

]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/10/toxic-waste-jelly-causes-total-disaster/feed/ The replacement staff member… http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/09/the-replacement-staff-member/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/09/the-replacement-staff-member/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:50:25 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/09/the-replacement-staff-member/ Ray, a member of my staff, has fallen ill with the dreaded ‘flu that’s doing the rounds… in his absence, a large toner order arrived and so… I am proud to introduce, the patent pending, Ray replacement!

The great, big, Ray replacement!
]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/09/the-replacement-staff-member/feed/ Herm… That wasn’t the kind of cup I was after… http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/06/herm-that-wasnt-the-kind-of-cup-i-was-after/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/06/herm-that-wasnt-the-kind-of-cup-i-was-after/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:19:38 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/06/herm-that-wasnt-the-kind-of-cup-i-was-after/ Whilst googling like my usual manic self to find a problem we have with a Dell printer via cups, I got this mildly odd result:

[PDF] Chapter 1 SAFETY ASSESSMENT
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
The ear muff consists of two rigid cups or shell(The hard shell
outside ... ERROR: syntaxerror.

So, there you go… if you’ve ever worried about the safety of ear muffs, let that document be a testament to their safety!

]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/06/herm-that-wasnt-the-kind-of-cup-i-was-after/feed/ A little note… http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/02/a-little-note/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/02/a-little-note/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:38:37 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/02/a-little-note/ There’s a tedency in the place that I work for little bits of paper to be circulated around. Apparently, this new fangled technology is called a hand-written memo. So anyway, a person is hotly dispatched to deliver a highly urgent piece of scrawled writing to me, and this is what it said:

So there we go... The world, on a laptop!

Any clues, anyone?

]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/02/a-little-note/feed/ Argh! The flu! The flu! http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/02/argh-the-flu-the-flu/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/02/argh-the-flu-the-flu/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:51:35 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/10/02/argh-the-flu-the-flu/ Well, it seems that it’s flu season as the BBC are giving dire warnings about the death and destruction that is about to be wrecked. Personally, looking at the image of the poor guy with ‘flu… I’m not sure I’d want it either.

I’m doubting it’s flu though, I think he was just minding his business having a cup of tea when someone decided to give him a swift kick in a private place…

bbc_news_flu.jpg
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Veni Vidi Wiki
]]> http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/09/29/3/feed/ The melting food! http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/07/18/the-melting-food/ http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/07/18/the-melting-food/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:54:40 +0000 dustmite http://blog.digitaldrain.net/2006/07/18/the-melting-food/ First the can of pepsi… and now… the biscuits! :o

The biscuits meeeeeelting!
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