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lacking mews 16 January 2015 22:45 I got BSODed today. No, not on my own computer – nothing as important as that. It was at work. I did what everyone does – switched it off and back on again. BSOD again. And a third time. So I called the IT helpdesk. They said they would send an engineer round, so I twiddled my thumbs for a few minutes. Two and a half hours later, no engineer had turned up – and my thumbs were getting tired with all that twiddling. So I started to think up some alternative ways of working. I could move to an absent colleague’s desk. Or – hang on - I have another computer that, while it doesn’t access the network, does access the database I am using. So, er, I could have been working all along. The engineer still hadn’t turned up by the time I went home. I heard on the news this morning that the UK and USA are joining forces in a cyber-security team that will test the resilience to hackers of various strategic computer systems. Funny, but shouldn’t they be doing that already? I treated myself to a new camera at the weekend. My old one had stopped working. Possibly because of the flour that it got splashed with when I was taking pictures of my pre-Christmas baking session. It’s got lots of cool settings and gizmos – most of which I will probably never use, and a few of which I don’t even understand. I’ll maybe take it somewhere this weekend and try a few photos with the various settings. There are only so many photos you can take from inside a small apartment – but I did take an impressive close-up of the door lock from the other side of the room, and a panoramic shot of the walls. I carefully chose a camera that was the same make as my old one, so I could re-use the memory card and case. Guess what? The card doesn’t fit. And neither does the case. Live entertainment news: I saw this guy perform this week. Amazing speed. My hands can’t move that quickly – never mind hit the right keys. Come to think of it, my eyes don’t move that quickly either. It was like watching a time-lapse sequence: you occasionally get a glimpse of the scene, but most of the time it’s just a blur of movement. Go to about 6:30 in. And this one is for
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