Brewsterware

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 The Beatles, a group that I’ve never really been into before. However, since seeing a cover band at a good friend’s wedding I’ve slowly converted. A couple of weeks ago I heard one of their tracks on the Radio that I really enjoyed, but I have since forgotten what the name was. All I can remember is that the verse and chorus were different speeds, and that it was really catchy. I’ve borrowed a heap of their albums in an effort to find the song.

Blog statistics have been interesting the past couple of days – I’ve been getting an extra 50 unique visitors a day. The stuff that I’ve been trying in SEO Book must really work 🙂

I realise that I am in the minority for my Big Brother views expressed in my last post, and I do realise that millions of people are hooked, so I have bought some related domains for a little marketing experiment. Once I’ve put some content on them I’ll post them here for all to see.

I’m off to enjoy the sun now …

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 across different episodes, with each one either leaving the doctor in mortal danger or some other cliff hanger which would leave you pining for the next episode.

Some of these stories are currently available on youtube, although I don’t know for how long considering how everyone and their dog now wants to sue google for copyright infringement. Anyway, I have put them into chronological order for your entertainment pleasure, so you can relive the bad acting and incidental music:

Season nineteen

Castrovalva – The doctor recovers from his regeneration
Four To Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation – The doctor starts the great fire of London
Black Orchid
Earthshock – Adric dies
Time-Flight – The doctor goes supersonic

The Five Doctors – The doctor celebrates his birthday by having some friends round

Season twenty

Arc of Infinity
Snakedance

The Guardian Trilogy:
Mawdryn Undead – The doctor aquires a new assistant
Terminus – Nyssa leaves (I was gutted as I used to have a crush on her!)
Enlightenment – The doctor goes sailing

The King’s Demons – I couldn’t find this story

Season twenty-one

Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios – The doctor loses his Tardis
Resurrection of the Daleks – Tegan decides to leave the doctor and stay on Earth
Planet of Fire – Turlough leaves and Peri joins the doctor as the new assistant
The Caves of Androzani – Time for another regeneration

Enjoy!

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 the catalyst software that came with the card, and this showed me all three video outputs, and allowed me to choose the second monitor to extend the desktop desktop onto.

I’ve really been missing the dual monitor setup while it hasnt been working. I’ve read one or two reports that it increases productivity and can vouch for that.

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 am kind of lucky as I have managed to go without a complete windows reinstall for a couple of years, so I know I am well overdue. There are a ton of programs that are installed that I never use, and I have swapped out various bits of hardware so I’m sure there are a load of drivers that need to be cleaned out.

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 two tablespoons of sugar and spread the mixture evenly on a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper. My baking sheet is approximately six by twelve inches. Bake for about twelve to sixteen minutes at 180oC. When you take it out of the oven it should look something like this:

Leave this to cool. Whip up some cream, and fold in some summer fruit being careful to not let any fall into any open mouths. Here’s some I made earlier 🙂

Spread this mixture over the baked pavlova:

Roll this into a swiss roll – the pavlova will easily come away from the paper. Here is what it should look like:

HEY!!! Who’s eaten my pavlova!!!!