Mother's Day

What I want to know is: Why does a shiny new fast wireless card connect at 11Mpbs with a weak signal, when it connects at all, while an old slow semi-obsolete one gives strong signal and 54Mbps?

Mother and me spent the entire day trying to get wireless network connections to work. Networks are a bugger to get right, and wireless setups are the worst.

It was her eventual brainwave to try cheap hardware and old driver from the depth of the cardboard storage box, and it works fine. I've got her an enormous bar of chocolate as a thank you for giving me back the internet - and Sunday is Mother's Day.
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Simon M runs a small ebay business selling bodybuilding supplements - with my help in anything technical. He wants to soup up the graphics and make it look snazzy. So he's asked me (as an old graphic designer) to put together some digital photomontages of healthy, toned, muscular bodies.

So I now have the hellish and thankless task of...downloading thousands of pictures of gorgeous built hunks, cropping out any phallic elements, and artistically arranging the result. A tough job, but I cope with it manfully.

My somewhat appropriate reward is access to a gym so I can get muscles of my own. That and a small stack of DVDs detailing the 18-cert antics of masculine military men in sunny secluded outdoor locations.

Mother would possibly not approve.