Archive for “October, 2008”

On this page the following entries were made in the “October, 2008” time-frame.


Wrestling treacle

Posted October 10th, 2008 by Rachel

Yesterday Mr Postie arrived with a package for me. It was a “light tent” I’d bought on eBay for photographic purposes. It’s basically a bendy wire frame, covered with a nylon type material that diffuses light, and also, with the provided backdrops, provides a plain covered backdrop for photographing objects and eBay items etc.
The [...]

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Thoughts on Google Chrome

Posted October 3rd, 2008 by Rachel

Now I’m not normally one for installing and using betas willy-nilly; they’re usually bug ridden and unstable, and I have quite enough of that just working on a computer with Windoze installed on it, thank you very much!
When I read the new Google comic book on the development of the new browser on the block [...]

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Further adventures with a sharp pointy object

Posted October 2nd, 2008 by Rachel

Today’s attempt at using my new INR self-testing machine was so very nearly there, but at the last minute went rather wrong.
Armed with advice from my co-admin on my forum, who’s a practice nurse and runs an INR clinic using the ‘pro’ version of the machine I’ve got, and my experiences from last week on [...]

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