House renovation

Cathal Coughlan again

This geezer has been mentioned before on here, but I've been
reminiscing about old songs with the help of Youtube, and found the
awesome Fatima Mansions cover of Bryan Adams' sanity-destroying and chart-topping monstrosity

It turns out that you can polish a silk purse out of a pig's ear

Ubuntu 10.04 can't connect to wireless network

This was driving me mad, but today I found the solution. From a terminal I typed
> lspci
Which showed that the wifi card I have installed was detected. Also I could see that it was a BCM4318 chipset

I could create a connection to my wireless network but not get an IP address by DHCP. Kept getting 10.42.43.1 which isn't the address range that I use.

Eventually google lead me here
--> http://ubuntugeek.com/forum/index.php?topic=268.0

And after installing the b43-fwcutter app (I have no idea what this is) and rebooting I was connected

> sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

Installing the app required a network connection of course. For added annoyance I had to move my adsl router into the room where this PC lives, and the onboard nic didn't work so I had to install a netgear fa311

I like windows.

Hair

I'm trying to decide if I'll be working a high-maintenance up-do this
party season

Autumn

I'm not really a fan of winter. Don't like snow or high heating bills. Summer isn't a fave of mine either - sticky sun cream and/or stinking hot days in the office. Spring is okay, though I think my pleasure at Spring's arrival is mainly relief at Winter's departure. Autumn is okay though. It has a nice smell, and I like it's colour scheme.

Gooseberries

From the garden. Only the middle bush of the three has borne fruit this year ("Careless" variety, the "Invicta" have nothing) Eaten in a gooseberry-and-apple crumble