You spin me round like a rissole.

[reddragdiva]

• There's nothing the free market can't get done.

• Despite massive evidence to the contrary, I must have too much time on my hands. Doing another daily photo blog, this one with text attached.

• NotN: Women avoiding IT in UK; Labour increases taxes for everyone except you personally, honest; Children to be taken into care; 3D Blu-Ray coming to the home.

The BBC1 sitcom continues. So, the house was covered in boxes of teenagers' stuff. arkady moved one on the table and saw lots of tiny crawling things; baby bookworms or weevils or perhaps alien larvae. The teenagers dug through the boxes and discovered the source to be infested books belonging to the older one. We asked her to put the books in bags. She put them in a single supermarket bag, of the sort that has holes in the bottom. We insisted they be put outside, to avoid the room becoming ground zero in a general household weevil infestation. I suggested putting them out the front so they would be out of the room but under the eaves, so as not to get rained on. She put them out the back, so I went out to three bags of water and pulp. She brought them in, left them there for a couple of days and now they're back in their room. I had to remember I was a bit like that at that age.

(redcountess: "You're still like that!")

Freda, meanwhile, has caught her mother's cold. She spent the early hours of Monday morning yelling because she felt awful. She was a bit better last night, but did end the day yelling because we wouldn't let her watch more CBeebies at midnight. We know the difference!

We is po', having done the budget and come out with a few flat rocks and some sweet wrappers. The three-figure phone bill came too. I want the head of our sitcom writer on a pike.

Life nevertheless remains mostly cheerful. Missing nyecamden, looking forward to Vagabonds with him on Saturday. I will be cadging drinks like a tarty leech, I assure you. I really should get last month's photos up.

Comments

[topbit.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the halting problem, I know someone that did something for that - Acme-HaltingProblem on CPAN.

[reddragdiva]

By shevek!

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

*applause*

[lastaii.livejournal.com]

I think I've just solved all our energy problems! Just strap the rapidly spinning corpse of Alan Turing to an electric turbine and off you go! :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I'd just send him a copy of GDM. $1000 please. *ker-ching*

What? He didn't say it has to work all the time :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

*slaps forehead*

I meant GDB of course.. Too many gnus spoil the acronym..

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Weevils? From Wales?
I'd be looking for a rift in space time.
*nods*

The three-figure phone bill came too. I want the head of our sitcom writer on a pike.

At this rate you'll be having the vicar around for tea by Christmas.

[reddragdiva]

No, that was several months ago ;-p

[illdrinn.livejournal.com]

Does that mean there will suddenly be an abundance of companies trying to find women for their tech force? *hopeful look*

[reddragdiva]

Dude. There's metric fucktons of IT jobs in the UK for all species of geek. Australians don't quite realise what a healthy job market looks like.

(This advice may be slightly outdated in the current economic climate. However, I betcha there's still more here than in Australia.)

[illdrinn.livejournal.com]

I've never really looked owing to the whole "no working visa" thing. I should pull out all the paperwork and go get my Spanish passport, but if you've got tips on how to apply for work without a visa let me know.

The market here is healthy as shit though, I'm not sure where you're getting the idea it's not. TBH I can't really make much more in the UK than here so I need to make sure I've got a house started on before I go anywhere cos there's no way I'm going to afford in London.

[reddragdiva]

I'm probably thinking in terms of Melbourne ;-)

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

I shall be at Vagabonds this Saturday, along with tiamatlady, I look forward to seeing you :)

[reddragdiva]

:-D

[reddragdiva]

Fell ill, blergh :-(

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

:( Hope you are feeling better soon.

[hawkeviper.livejournal.com]

call barring, my friend... call barring.

[reddragdiva]

We'd like to be able to call mobiles ourselves!

The teenagers reacted to the bill somewhat like we did and have a keen awareness of our cashflow ;-)

[hawkeviper.livejournal.com]

/me nods

I shall hope that they do take it to heart and don't continue... but... if they do, there are a few possibilities out there:

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQ_nkwZcommtelQ20phoneQ20guardQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZR10QQ_mdoZQQ_sopZ12

Those bolt onto the phone socket and ahve a lock/key so you can't bypass them; you program them with the numbers/whatever that you want to be able to call, and it blocks anything that doesn't match what you've pre-programmed.

Alternatively, the BT call barring service can be enabled/disabled on the fly by dialling a code and your pin number.

(I speak only as an ex-teenager who used to run up 400 pound internet bills between the days when you could phreak and the days when my town got dsl)