I am happy to report to you that I bit the bullet and went down the quiz with my brother. I just went to my quiz mates - including the *mate* and just announced "the quiz saviour is here..." - OK we came last but that's totally beyond the point. I realised that I was feeling awful because ...

Cut back on non-essential additional activities you do. You may subconsciously be involving yourself in extra entertainment and such like, to take your mind of the real issues in your life. But by doing so you are making it very hard to identify areas of stress/discomfort/irritation/depression. I h...

I'm finding it hard to get a smile on my face at the moment. In all honesty. I can "smile for the cameras" but I'm really not happy. Everything is just so shit, it really is. Sometimes I wonder why I bother getting out of bed in the morning. It's just all a load of wank. I can't really put...

My mate says he loves me, I've tried and failed to meet someone twice...who keeps cancelling on me for no other reason that he's a TIMEWASTER. I'm not going to my usual quiz of the week because my mate will be there and I don't want to face him. It's not right. And on top of all that, I'm trying to ...

I am going to see 'The Butterfly Effect' tonight. This will briefly lift the weight of boredom from my shoulders. Maybe we should start a Metropol book club or something, seen as we're all so bored. Or dare one member to do something and have them report back on their work. Or truth or dare! I actu...

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I believe it's certainly the case on Central Trains and Midland Mainline that the trolley services are actually done by self employed people. Don't know if it's the same for other rail services. You have to buy in your own stuff and effectively run the service yourself. Which is why the prices are s...

ROFL!!! Smashing!!! That really is brilliant. I did actually laugh out loud when I saw it!

I knew you'd be thinking of me again Andy. Unforgettable, I am!

OK, tell a lie. Just had a look at the IP's again. The laptop now has an IP assigned by the DHCP. So I assume that's a good thing. Starting with 192.168.0.XXX which seems more familiar when it comes to home networking! Don't know what the IP of the PC upstairs is now. Probably wildly different, but ...

Well I don't know what I did, but I ran the Windows home and small office networking thing on both computers...I had already done this several times...and suddenly it's working. As if by magic. Still not convinced by the slightly dodgy IP's which have now changed because I've been fiddling, but it's...

I know how much you like wireless networking problems, so I might as well add mine. I've bought some Belkin (I KNOW!) wireless networking kit. A PCI card for this PC and a PCMCIA card for my laptop. I just want to use an ad-hoc network connection to share files and the internet connection. I've set ...