Well, this flaming “tennis elbow” is not going away in a hurry. The first prescription of some NSAID eased the pain for a couple of days, then flatlined. The second prescription of a strong ibuprofen gel did bugger all. And the third prescription of cocodamol was, I think, clutching at straws on the part of […]
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Had a fox amble through our estate during the cold snap the other day – beautiful to behold. Only my second sighting of one since moving out to Grenoside, the other being on Elliot Lane, just before the junction with the A61.
Having just posted about Microsoft, and the words “pain in the arse” having strangely sprung to mind, I was thinking of a suitable word for that condition. “Analalgesia” sounded useful, but it seems the word already exists for something completely different… And, anyway, it would be a mix of Latin and Greek, and I’ve learnt
Certainly not praise for Windows 10, which has proved to be a significant step backwards from Windows 7 on my PC: slower boot time, odd incompatibilities, and, worst of all, mysterious and annoying random freezes for about 1 minute). But praise for the Surface 3 which I received as an unexpected Christmas pressie. I’ve had
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So I went through the formal switching process to change banks, all DDs in place two days before the switchover date, npower sent e-mail acknowledging the new account details – then five minutes later another e-mail saying “We couldn’t collect your Direct Debit amount of …“. The DD was already in place, and they shouldn’t
Hmm… that wasn’t particularly difficult, was it? Just delete it from the template and add it to the footer menu… No need to be frightened by jdoc:include…
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Just a reminder to myself… Been bugged by how to remove the © notice that Joomla sticks at the bottom of every page. Google turned up loads of stuff that has no relevance to what I see with Joomla 3.4.5. Eventually discovered that it’s defined in /templates/protostar in the footer section. So took a copy
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Always nice when one of your favourite books intrudes into real life. I’m having the routing problem again, Dear old Origin Broadband are insisting that I query the issue with Hostinger; but the only way I can do so is via their cpanel – which is what I can’t connect to! So when I am
Saw a neat tweet from @sam_bambs today: You can spell the word ‘upside down’ upside down by using other letters of the alphabet: umop apisdn Ranks along with “eleven plus two” = “twelve plus one”.
