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Saturday morning musings


My Radeon 9250 graphics card has crapped out on my again I’ve spent what seems like hours trying to reload the drivers, but I’ve given up for the moment as it was begining to be a waste of time. So, I’m running on one monitor for the time being.
I’m currently listening to [...]

Doctor Who fan


I am quite a big fan of Dr Who, and having grown up watching the fifth doctor I naturally think he was the best, although the current one seems to be doing a pretty good job. One of the great things about the old Dr Who episodes is that the stories would be split [...]

Dual monitor heaven


Well I have managed to reinstall Windows XP and most of the programmes that I use.
I’ve also managed to sort out my dual monitor issue. The problem was that windows thought that I was trying to extend my desktop onto the TV output on my video card. I got round this by installing [...]

Operating System reinstall


Well, it seems like I spoke too soon. I had to reboot my system (It usually goes without a reboot for about 5 days), and the display driver refused to load, even after being unistalled and reinstalled 2 times. I’m currently running in VGA mode which is pretty unusable
I guess I [...]

Recipe for a rolled pavlova


This recipe for rolled pavlova comes from my Aunt in New Zealand
Ingredients:
Eight tablespoons of sugar
Four egg whites
One desertspoon of cornflour
One teaspoon of vanilla essence
One teaspoon of vinegar
Beat the egg whites until stiff and gradually add six tablespoons of sugar. Add the vanilla essence and vinegar. The mixture should have soft peaks:

Fold in the remaining [...]