Sunday, November 29. 2009
Two New Christmas Trees
Black Christmas trees with LED lights and fibre optics. Bought from Hootys, just off the
Wolverhampton Road, Walsall.
Sunday, November 08. 2009
Integrated Serendipity with PHPBB3
Tuesday, October 20. 2009
Welcome to the Family Rafael
Thursday, October 08. 2009
Integrated Forum and Blog
To be honest the result was disappointing and so having worked out how to do this on a virtual machine (Callisto) I will not be making alterations to the two main servers Earth and Jupiter.
Friday, September 25. 2009
Lucy treated for Hemorrhagic GastroEnteritis
Following on the th problems we had with Annie, After finishing a night shift I got up out of bed at about 1500 hrs Thursday 24 Sep 2009 , to find that Gail had taken Lucy to the Vets in Aldridge. Zena was home and assisted with the transport to get her there. Lucy had diahorrea which in Gails opinion was worse than that suffered by Annie. The vets had placed her on a drip.
I collected her at about 1900 hrs. By now she had made a good recovery and was bright and cheerful. I had to take her back to the vet for 0940 in the morning for her canula to be removed. She was given the same medication as Annie and the vet said it was best now to wait for the results of the tests on Annies poo taken in on Wednesday. At about 1800 hrs we had a phone call from the vets to say that there were no viruses found in the poo sample but they were now checking for possible food poisoning with results expected around about next Wednesday.
Wednesday, September 23. 2009
Annie treated for Hemorrhagic GastroEnteritis
On Monday 1 September 2009 both our dogs Lucy and Annie went to the Vets and had their annual booster injections. They were given the usual routine examination and had no problems. I even joked to the receptionist as I was leaving "Happy Christmas" thinking that I would not be back until next years booster was due.
Tuesday evening at about 1930 whilst we were all sitting in the living room, Annie was suddenly sick on the carpet. We noticed blood in the vomit. She was about to vomit again and so I took her out into the garden where this time she had very runny diahorrea which was also full of blood. Not knowing what was the best thing to do - the Vets closed at 1830 hrs, Gail checked our Vets website and found that there is an out of hours "All night service" also it was just a few minutes walk away from our house, Northside Vets, at the Island by Asda.
We telephoned North side Vets who asked us to come straight round. Annie was diagnosed as having Hemorrhagic-GastroEnteritis she was kept overnight and placed on a drip. I had to collect her before they closed at 0800 hrs and transfer her to our vets in Aldridge. She remained there until 1800 hrs. Fortunately the Police Force were very understanding and let me take a day off (should have been working a late shift.) Annie was then allowed back home with several lots of medication lasting about 10 days. She was now full recovered.
Monday 21 September 2009 and suddenly it was back again, blood in runny poo. She was only eating grass and not her food. We kept an eye on her overnight but in the morning she still had very runny diarrhoea which looked mostly to be blood. I took her back to the vets who again placed her onto a drip. They rang at dinner time to say she had perked up and appeared bright again. I collected her at 1800hrs. but was asked to collect a poo sample.
Wednesday morning and back to the vet to have the cannula removed. I was told it would be between 2 days and 2 weeks before the results would be back from the lab.
Pauls Laptop - Resized Partitions
This was not an easy task and in fact I began at 11am on Tuesday and finished at 0330 am on Wednesday. His laptop was split into two partitions and the first had XP, the second had Vista.
Vista refused to shrink and so I had to use some third party software "Acronis Disk Director 10" Which did the job - but only after I had wasted 3 hours attempting various work rounds to Vista's refusal to shrink the partition. More time was wasted when I tried to swap the two partitions round placing Vista in front of XP. Whilst I did manage to do that, unfortuntaley this caused the XP drive letter (from within XP) to change preventing it from booting. So I then had to return things back round again.
Still having problems getting XP to restore from Norton Ghost (No problems with the now shrunken Vista) I then tried an experminent and it worked. I wiped the Hard drive clean and created an 80GB partition (for XP) leaving about 30 GB (for Vista). Next I installed a clean copy of XP from my XP SP2 set up disc. Once that had finished I now turned to Norton Ghost and started the computer from the recovery disc. Instead of restoring the entire computer I did a restore of ALL the files (Windows included) - This worked and so I had managed to use a back door method of getting XP back.
The rest was then plain sailing, I did a similar thing with Vista. This time I installed a clean copy of Vista from my Vista set up disc - from within XP. I used the serial number found on the label underneath his laptop which Vista accepted. Once installed this had created the correct boot files on the first partition (XP) - now I formatted that Vista partition. I had to do it this way because when I ran Norton Ghost to recover the saved Vista partition it stopped working with a report that the drive was locked. After I had formatted the drive it was back into XP, start up Norton Ghost and then restored the saved Vista partition.
Job done and it was now all working. All that remained was the normal general housekeepiong - defrag the discs, Install Windows Updates etc.