Mat Bowles

OK, weird stuff going on. My work laptop has decided that wireless networks are fun things to have displaying as active in the systray, but not actually worth talking to the internet on. The spare work laptop can't be taken from the office.

My home PC is still doing that "cannot clear the ARPcache" thing that I never got around to fixing (work laptop was used, I was watching DVDs on it).

And, worse, I'm having issues getting to gmail and facebook from anywhere (except, weirdly, my mobile phone). So I'll be reformatting the hardrive of the desktop tonight, and I may or may not get back online, in the meantime, well, updates and comments will be random. Gah!

Right, I've finished work and am about to leave the office, but my 'net connection last night was awful, it's been mostly OK since we got the new router but last night just, well, no.

Which makes looking at profiles and pics really hard work; hopefully I'll be ok tonight, it was fine this morning, but if it's bad, um, you'll just have to wait a bit.

Having said that, I had meant to edit the instructions for the meme to allow people to respond on my post with answers, and also to ask me for extra ones to write up there, but I gave up editing - I dislike being told what to post by a meme, and I dislike the idea that by commenting somewhere you're obliged to post something else, so, y'know, asking me stuff doesn't mean you then have to post, etc. I actually really enjoyed writing that up, it's not a bad little meme really, talking about stuff you're interested in that others want to know about. So if you don't want to actually do the meme, but want me to write more about interests and/or icons, ask away; I'm a bit lacking on the inspiration front for stuff to write anyway so, assuming I can get online, it'd be cool.