Pumping oil

The saga of the PC continues. To those of you who aren’t technically minded, think of my old PC as being an oil tanker. My tanker went on the rocks, the hull was damaged and the engines were completely smashed. Is it now a useless tanker? No.  Because the oil is still on board.  But [...]

Greetings and whatnots

I’ll start by wishing you all a Happy New Year. The Old Fart is in bad form today, probably due to a massive hangover and is steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the day that’s in it. Of course he went on the rampage last night and woke everyone when he came staggering in in the small [...]

Backup my backside

Some of you may have seen from the other site that I have been having some wee PC problems? My trusty old laptop crashed with a complete hard disk failure.  Bad sectors and tracks everywhere. Fortunately, it is a duel disk machine and all my data [and Grandad’s] is on the other disk.  However, I [...]