In the next week, this site will be moving from here. I’ll be posting in the meantime, but if you come back here and this blog isn’t here, you’ll be glad you’ll have bookmarked www.metime.org.uk to make sure you can find me again.

I have been working in more than one job since about November 2006 – a mixture of working in a clinical role, suicide prevention, youth development, youth health, and emergency management. I think I’m a little over the multiple roles and want a bit of time to consolidate and just focus down on one thing [...]

After a few technical issues, I have managed to get the battery life of the Eee PC 701 up to a level that is a little more respectable than it was, including the standby battery leakage. I ended up having to go into the BIOS and changing the setting of the OS Installation option from [...]

After a few years of using the .Mac service, now known as MobileMe, I’ve decided that, well, its just not for me. It costs a hell of a lot for not muh value really, and although I have an iPhone, I don’t really need push data or email. Just syncing with my Powerbook and using [...]

It was a very wet July in New Zealand. It was cold in June. It is shaping up to be quite a winter. I wonder what August has in store for us? I’m a little over it, although it’s encouraging to see the days getting longer, a little bit each day. Soon the stretching out [...]

I can’t get this to work particularly well. Every time I try to export the Rapidweaver blog files to blogger.com, I get an incomplete transfer. I try to get to get the spam filter on my blogger account turned off, but this doesn’t seem to work. It is a complete pain. I’ll give it one [...]

I’ve had the Eee PC 701 for about a week or so now and it has had a bit of use. Though AbiWord does have a bit of a problem when you switch to the equivalent of ‘track changes’ mode as it leaves trails all over the screen and the formatting goes somewhat awry.

The [...]