One good thing about converting the World of Me to this Wordpress malarkey is the readers ability to add comments after every post. Unfortunately, spamming bastards all over the world have programmed their spambots to bombard the comments fields with adverts for pharmaceuticals and dating websites.

It’s the reason I have to moderate all comments before they appear on the site. At one point, after receiving over twenty spam comments in one afternoon, I considered shutting off comments for all posts, but then I realised this was not a direction I wanted the World of Me to take. After all, who would Stuart have left to talk to?

As I can handle the current trickle of spam I’m leaving comments turned on for now, but at the first sign of mass spammage, I’ll turn it off.

I would just like to announce that I both hate and love Linux (Linpus Lite Linux specifically) with equal measure. I won’t go into why I’m using Linux just yet, I will say that whenever Linux does something wonderful and clever that impresses my inner geek, it then proceeds to punch me squarely in the face and refuses to do any simple task I need it to do.

I’ll persevere, even to the point where I’ll try another flavour of Linux such as Ubuntu, but unfortunately it seems that you need the patience of a saint to make Linux usable. Unfortunately, I’m no saint.

It was just over a year ago that my previous PC decided to shuffle off this mortal coil in an unspectacular cloud of non-smoke. I was reminded of this fact only last Thursday night when my PC decided to do exactly the same all over again.

This time around there are no stories of crazy shenanigans involving mobile phones and weird error messages, this time around my PC just died, suddenly and properly. I’m not sure of the exact cause behind its untimely demise, only that there was an error with the motherboard that forced the machine to lock-up whenever the processor temperate reached 30 degrees Celsius. Again, the only cure this was to build a new machine, which is why I’m typing this from my brand-spangley new Intel quad-core super-deluxe PC with time travel and lottery number prediction system*.

As before, what I’m trying to say is this – my computer broke and I’ve fixed it. Let the updates commence!

*this is, in fact, a lie!

I did this

I wish I could say that I have a really good excuse for not updating the web site for six months. Luckily for me, I can!

Our story begins during the week of the RAFTA project. I was in the kitchen of our temporary lodgings engaged in a rather lengthy mobile telephone call when I suffered what can best be described as a ‘spaz-hands’ moment.

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