I don't belieeeeve it!

00:04.34 - Monday 3rd November 2003   (Link to This Entry)

That bloody USB Snakelight has only gone and sold - and for £5.78 too! Seems the free publicity generated when NTK picked up on it may have done the trick. 3,000+ visitors can't be bad, thank guys!

Oh hell, I suppose that means I'm going to actually have to unpack one.

Stalled...

13:04.12 - Monday 3rd November 2003   (Link to This Entry)

Looks like it won't now be the 7th, and that it could be the 18th at the earliest. This is all down to our buyer not being able to/not wanting to move until then.

In all honesty she's being a pain in the arse - she had an in-depth survey done on our place which meant some guy basically stomping round and looking into everything to try and find dodgy bits. His in-depth report basically listed four things as being 'wrong':

• Tiles missing in bathroom.
  (We put down a new floor - the tiles are in a bucket waiting to be re-attached).
  
• Back door 'leaks'.
  (Two strips of wood should sort it.)
  
• Toilet doesn't flush properly.
  (What?!? We've been using it for years and it's been fine!)
  
• Boiler needs servicing.
  

That last item is probably the only valid moan on the list, and for this she's fannying about and holding everyone up while she's on holiday in bloody Tenerife. Honestly, M is about ready to kill someone. :)

So we have a bit of breathing space before we move. This means NTL should be able to get to the new place in time to install everything so that I don't miss out on my Cable Modem and phone line for a week, but it also means it's going to be bloody freezing and even close to Christmas before we can get moved in - and considering we're going to be living in a building site for a good couple of months, this is not good.

Plus the guys on the list are moaning at me moving again. Shut up already!

Book Club charge deflected...

13:16.43 - Monday 3rd November 2003   (Link to This Entry)

Forgot to mention: I managed to deflect that horrible £90 charge from Computer Books Direct by simply buying another book. I still can't seem to find anything to do with JavaScript, so I opted instead for a book on XHTML which was an OK price (approx £16). The business side can pay for it and all's peachy and I guess I ought to be looking at XHTML anyway.

I guess there's no real need for me to get a JavaScript book anyway, as most of the JS I do is for form processing and the occasional bit of DIV access for moving stuff, so it's not like I have to learn absolutely everything about it. Still, it would be nice to be able to pick up JavaScript in a Nutshell or something similar.