A few weeks ago I began entertaining the idea that the time is fast approaching when I should be considering a new work car. Strangely enough, this didn’t occur to me back when a steering rod snapped – a fatal issue if it happened at any speed – but when the engine started getting noisy [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Mucho zoom-zoom
Posted in Zoom-zoom on August 23, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I drive like a geriatric
Posted in Zoom-zoom on August 20, 2006 | 2 Comments »
As most readers of this blog know, I make my living tootling about the city making people’s computers run less horribly. Naturally the price of petrol of late has been weighing heavily upon me (as well as the general running state of the car, which really wasn’t purchased with this kind of usage in mind). [...]
The joys of insurance
Posted in General on August 17, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I just sent this email to the webmaster of Australian Unity: Hi, Why does your website require Windows and Internet Explorer when getting a quote? I just tested with a Macintosh running Firefox (and spoofing its user-agent as IE on a Windows XP machine) and the site worked perfectly – as it should. If I [...]
