Archive for July, 2008

Firefox is eating my disk.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

After recently reading many reports of peoples experience of Firefox 3 and its now [in]famous urlclassifier3.sqlite file. This is where the anti phishing and attack sites data is kept.
Mine currently looks like this, 96608256 2008-07-23 11:15 urlclassifier3.sqlite. Might as well call that 100meg and that’s just after one week since I last deleted the file. [...]

Bonekickers revisited.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Last week I posted the following after watching episode 2 of Bonekickers.
I don’t get it. Is the BBC’s new series Bonekickers intentionally bad or is it just bad? I have a feeling it’s one of those programs that is so bad I’ll still tune in every week to see if it can get any worse.
After [...]

What is this congestion they speak of?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

This morning I thought I’d try the 258 bus route instead of the 256. The 258 is a limited stop service that upon leaving the Davyhulme area of Urmston runs non stop through Trafford Park into Manchester only stopping again once nearing the city centre to only let people off.
32 minutes it took from getting [...]

Darren who?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I nearly chocked on my elevenses when I heard the England team for the 2nd test read out on the radio this morning.
Darren who? Huh?
I had to go and look him up on Cricinfo as I’ve never heard of him before. Very strange decision as I fully expected someone of the likes of the Hoggster [...]