Comments for Dom Davis (The Blog)

Comment on To buy or not to buy by gibbja

gibbja — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:18:47 +0000

Hmm, would love to help. I have a spare pig hut. And a couple of sheds. If you put them all together that’d probably be bigger than Little Cottage (though not having seen it I can only guess). And you’d have to kick the sheep out of the pig hut.

Have you considered purchasing a narrow boat and roaming the broads?

Comment on Disk Failure by gibbja

gibbja — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:42:53 +0000

My NAS just had a bit of a flake out. It helpfully tells me that it has corrupted firmware, but won’t let me talk to it to fix it. The website is surprisingly unhelpful on the matter. Depressing really. I’ve ordered two new ones so I can set up some redundant storage, and I’m going to look at cloudifying the non-confidential stuff.

I might have a spare hard drive. It depends.

Comment on Operation by gibbja

gibbja — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:49:30 +0000

Hope the op goes well!

Comment on Back to work by Dom

Dom — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:42:31 +0000

I too recall someone (specifically NotN) saying exactly the same thing when I was made redundant: “Give it two weeks and you’ll be bored”. 4 months and I hadn’t even started the list of things I wanted to do while unemployed, was having a whale of a time and only went back to work because The Fear kicked in regarding running out of money and not finding a new job.

Perhaps we could mount a law suit against the makers of pill packets, get a fortune in compensation and live off that? Know any good lawyers?

Lamb would be nice, ta. Smaller cuts if possible, we only have 2 to feed.

Comment on Back to work by gibbja

gibbja — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:29:35 +0000

Many people said to me that I’d be desperate to get back to work. But it’s been several months and counting and I can tell you that they’re wrong. Sadly Camelot too have not yet helped me, but I live in hope.

I’ve been bitten by the foil on a pill packet. It was really painful. Someone should complain, it’s an outrage.

In the meantime, if you want any lamb, I’m going to have some spare…

Comment on Cristal by Dom

Dom — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:47:39 +0000

I can’t say I’ve ever tried adding cassis. Given the sheer quantity of bubbly we have at the moment I may try it, although this would require me procuring cassis.

Comment on Annoyed! by Dom Davis (The Blog) » Appeased!

Dom Davis (The Blog) » Appeased! — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:39:52 +0000

[...] yes days annoyance fresh in my mind I called my private banking manager first this this morning. The number [...]

Comment on Cristal by gibbja

gibbja — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:35:16 +0000

We cracked open a bottle of VCP last night to celebrate my new company. It was very pleasant. Alex decided to increase the plesantness by adding Cassis to it. Lovely (though almost sacriligeous).

I think you’ve mispriced the Cristal. You see the taste to cost scale is most definitely not linear, it is probably geometric… it’s most upsetting really.

Comment on NaNoWriMo by Dom

Dom — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:08:06 +0000

The book has to be started today. Google for NaNoWriMo.

Comment on NaNoWriMo by Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:33:56 +0000

You simply have to set the whole thing in a Midsomer town and the deathtoll of 6 would be about par. Have each death investigated by a grumpy old DI with a dashing sidekick DC and it would be an instant bestseller and be repeated on ITV3 until about 2134.