All computers dead...

Our ibook has broken again, same problem as last time. PC has also given up the ghost, so the house is computerless, apart from PDA. As I'm off to Norway on Weds, this may be the last entry for a few weeks.

ON the plus side, have had a brilliant weekend with James, Vikki, Tim and Chris. We have played 4 rounds of golf, seen a few shows, drank loads of beer, and Tim ate ANOTHER deep fried mars bar, completely by choice.

Rach makes it onto BBCi...!

... while still working in Sheffield she did initial designs of the casino next to Bramall Lane , reported here.



Fame at last!

Rooney...

This BBC page is itching for some biting satire... with Chris and Tim up at the weekend, it may just happen, and we could have our own section on chavscum before you can say "alreeeeeeet".

ipod mini...

Phil now has one of these babies, which is marvellous, he is very happy, Rachel wants one too!

The one downside was Apple's uselessness at getting the thing to him. They aren't the best in terms of stocks, worrying news for those of us waiting with bated wallets for the all-new G5 imac, which apparently Apple can't get enough processors for. ho-hum.

Norway

I'm off to the cottage in Norway next week (99p flight on Ryanair from Glasgow!!), and in preparation I thought I'd see whether Hummerbakken has made it onto the web. It has, 56 times, including some of my photos of course, which were no.1 in the search thanks to the ever efficient blogger software. Good job I never put any dodgy photos up, ey?!

Most sites were in Norwegian and don't have any images, but I did find some nice pictures here. The fifth down shows just where we park our boat.

Apple ichat...

Stig, Rach and I experienced video conferencing for the first time yesterday, using Apple ichat AV.

Stig couldn't see us as we don't have a camera yet - buying this tomorrow - but we could see him, the audio was perfect, and it worked extremely well. As I'm going to be almost totally working from home from September 8th, I'm very keen to experiment with this more so I don't withdraw from human contact entirely.

I wonder if this could this be a fun means of communication between Scotland and Scunthorpe? That's if there aren't already enough new things beginning with 'i' in the Hollingworth household this week...

Kitty update...

Jimmy's foster father, Chris, posted some lovely photos of him a few weeks ago.

Norway: Scream update...

While the razor-sharp Norwegian police track down the masked thieves, the authorities are considering a temporary replacement...

News in from Norway...

The Scream by Edvard Munch has been stolen from the Munch Museum in Norway. Those thieving pikeys get everywhere...

I'm off to Hummerbakken to see Mum on Sept 1st, hurrah!

Something I have experienced...

According to C-NET, an unpatched PC will last 20 minutes on the web before it is infected. I learned this the hard way last year.