Archive for February, 2002
mummy… where’s my internet?
The small person had her first taste of life-without-internet connection this weekend.
“Agh.. somethings happened to my pooter!” she yells, running into my room. An investigation revealed a ‘page cannot be displayed’ – the reason being the apparant demise of my ISDN provider.
The above meant a return to pay per minute internet access for the weekend, being permanently connected to the net is a constant here, like jugs of coffee and cold beer. The small person can’t remember life before 24/7.
However, all is well again, I have no idea what happened to previous internet provider, maybe they will return, but I’ve signed up with another and all is well again.
One year on …
I have been posting random stuff here for a whole year! A whole year of random rambling available for your pleasure.
I’ve just got back from the hospital where they prodded at my neck in order to perform a Carotid Duplex. Thankfully this is really just an ultrasound scan – just the same sort of thing as the scans I had while pregnant with the small person, and so the only really painful thing about the procedure was that I had to be at the hospital at 8.30a.m. … eww mornings…
modern “girls” can’t cook?
This article based on a survey taken by the Guides Association tells us the dreadful news that girls today don’t know how to boil an egg.
I appreciate that the article is based on research done by an all-female organisation, but surely the emphasis should be that young people (regardless of gender) are not gaining important life skills – like the ability to feed themselves cheaply. Of course ‘mothers going out to work’ is cited as one of the reasons for this problem. Working mothers can be conveniently blamed for most things I find, those that cannot can always be blamed on single mothers – as a working, single mother I am glad to know that I am probably responsible for almost all problems in modern society!
When I was at school 10 years ago, the cooking skills taught in home economics revolved around victoria sponge cakes and strange creations made by melting mars bars, not in creating good food on a budget – something that would have been more useful in the relatively deprived area of the country the school was in.
I rarely eat any processed food, I love to cook and cook at least one meal from scratch every day, my parents cook but I have taught myself as it really isn’t difficult! I have also taught myself to fix washing machines, carpentry, how to do my own taxes and a myriad of other things that this report thinks that ‘girls’ are incapable of doing due to their education… none of these things were taught in my school.
Perhaps they should be, to be self reliant and not need to ‘get a man in’ to do simple jobs is a great strength. To be able to make a nice meal when you only have a few quid can make all the difference, to know how to budget, not be scared of your tax return and know how to deal with banks can save a lot of stress… but these apply to both men and women particularly as we are living in a time when more people than ever before are living alone – either by choice or circumstance – and need to be able to take care of all aspects of their life.
CSS tests
Some good CSS tests for designers caught my eye over at chriscassell.net, nice site too.
busy …
So much is going on here, hence my beginning of month silence – lots of work, my Open University course has started, I’m slowly disappearing under a mountain of paperwork that must be done while I can still see my desk… but we’re fine.
I have been informed that the evil night bird is probably a robin, robins are cute, and small, I was expecting something the size of a vulture the noise it makes!
