Web feed« new website! | Main | traffic, traffic, traffic.. »
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
whirring and bargains
Things have moved on a little over the past day or so. The drying equipment has finally turned up - five air movers, three dehumidifiers and a hot air blower, and they're all whizzing away noisily and insistently. Although it's something of a relief to be in the relative peace of the outdoors, there's still a lot of humidity about, despite the rain having held off today. Lenni's decision to wear earmuffs was a good one! (Click the photo for bigger)
The insurance assessor (loss adjuster?) came today, to ask lots of questions, take photos, and write things down on a rather cool Panasonic Toughbook. We're now waiting for the asbestos inspectors to get in touch, and, once the drying's progressed, a visit from the people who will start to get things back to normal. It'll be quite loud for a while yet, then..
While we were at Asda this morning, I spotted something of a bargain - two-for-less-than-the-price-of-one! Because I've already got some liquorice allsorts at home, I resisted the temptation to take advantage of such a good deal! (Click the picture to the left for bigger!)
Finally, I read an interesting blog entry (including a link to this YouTube video) warning about the risks to privacy of putting personal information on Facebook. It makes some interesting points, but then I feel the video descends into hyperbole (although this is probably because I'm fairly ignorant of the power of the US government). If I were a student (or moreso, if I actually took the internet seriously!) I would certainly think twice about having a Facebook account.
(Oh, while I still remember.. twitterrific is a cute little app for Mac OS X... makes Twittering quick'n'easy. Too quick'n'easy?)
Posted by james at June 26, 2007 1:56 PM
Comments
Hope the drying's going well. I tend to thing the facebook thing is pretty standard for the Internet and not much different to MySpace ,other social networks, your ISP,Windows OS, health clubs,book clubs, Tesco, Sainsburys or whoever. I tend to part anonymise both my blog and things I sign up for but you can only go so far with that kind of paranoia.
Posted by: Emalyse at June 26, 2007 5:51 PM
