2011 — 27 June: Monday
A much brighter start1 than yesterday. I'm listening to Andrew Marr hosting a BBC Radio 4 discussion on brain science, but I'm being distracted by some part of my mind / body interface that is telling "me" (whoever and whatever and wherever "me" lives) that there's an urgent need of some breakfast around these body parts.
Meanwhile, here's the last of my little set of Becker family portraits from 1982:
Crikey. It's now (11:22) reached 26.0C down here.
On yesterday's walk...
... when Mike handed over his trusty Nikon for me to capture a colourful set of poppies...
I made sure I kept the IBM Hursley buildings that were on the horizon out of the shot. Reading this "Liquid Portal" nonsense (nice typos, by the way) gives me a further reason not to miss the bizarro new world of IBM.
Following helpful advice from Len and a quick skim of the section on the Windows swapfile in my copy of "Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks" (on the possibly dubious assumption that Windows 7 won't have changed much in that deep-seated area of unpleasantness) I now have a fixed-size 12GB swapfile on my boot drive. It may or may not be fragmented. It's possible to clobber it and force it to be re-built, but I haven't gone down that route yet.2
It's too darned hot
In fact, I've speeded up one of Blackbeast's fans. The living room remains stubbornly at 26.5C — it's now 19:59 and time to think about an evening meal. It had better be something fairly soft because my mouth is still somewhat blistered after Saturday's over-hot mouthful. At this point, ice-cream sounds remarkably attractive :-)