this is a nice site: ::: alancreech ::: home ::: which got me onto thinking about Lent - what's that all about then? Who invented it? Is it in the bible? Is it just some strange tradition? Do we need lent?

More about Lent: Honest to God: "Life is not always uplifting, or wonderful, or pleasant, or joyous—but we have been taught the lie that for spiritual people like us, it must be so. So we become play actors, hypocrites—telling ourselves that by lying, we are having faith, and that if we lie enough, the bad things will fade away, like a dream upon awakening." - When does "positive thinking" cross over into lying?

remembering rebecca :: march 2004 collective nouns for mac users. see her computing page for more.

Backing up - Please backup your data. Don't wait till your hard drive dies, or your computer explodes before you do something about it. Cheap easy solution 1: buy a second 80/120gb hard drive 50/60quid inc vat (i recommend samsung because they have a 3yr warranty - what point is there in buying a hard drive with a 1year warranty?), backup your main drive to that as often as you feel fit, or 2: buy a DVD-writer for about 50/60quid from ebuyer.com and write a DVD every so often with your stuff on. They fit about 5GB if I'm not mistaken.