Tag Archives: Tips

Physio

Top Tip: Never show weakness to a physio – as soon as they know something hurts they’ll be at it like a dog on a bone until you sign over your house.

Tech Roundup

I upgraded to 10.5.2 on my Mac yesterday, and found that screen sharing no longer worked when trying to control a 10.5.1 machine. So upgrade all your machines if you’re upgrading any, and as it’s almost a third of a gig in size it’s worth downloading the install if you have more than one machine. [...]

Wear Sunscreen

This just turned up on the radio, and it’s too great for me to keep to myself:

Hello

Having collected my boy from his new school a few times over the last fortnight, and overheard the conversations of various young mums, I offer the following language advice. “Hello” is pronounced with a short ‘o’, not a long ‘ooo’, and should at no point be pronounced in a sing-song tone. The Welsh can manage [...]

Chocolate

Top Tip: If you drop a small, pellet-like piece of chocolate near a cage full of gerbils who like to flick their pellets of poo out of the cage, take a breath and let the chocolate go.