Monthly Archives: July 2006

My Dell laptop has had an issue for some time. It’s not a major one for me, just a bit of a niggle. Problem is it doesn’t suspend properly. Well to be exact it doesn’t come back after it suspends properly. I’ve had this problem for a while, but haven’t really been bothered by it because I rarely need to suspend my laptop. It generally stays on.

Some time ago at a HantsLUG meeting, I showed the laptop to Paul Sladen who valiantly tried to figure out why this happened, in amongst lots of other people asking him questions. It was a bit of a tricky one so he filed a bug on the Ubuntu Bug tracking system. I had already registered so in fact all he had to do was open a browser on my laptop and point to the right place to start the bug reporting process. It was very quick and easy to do.

That would be me.

I’ve started speaking to strangers more. Here’s what’s happened so far.

A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a guy standing on the concourse at London Waterloo station. He was standing with an electrically powered bike. When I approached him and asked what it was, how it worked and so on, he seemed somewhat taken aback. After telling me all about the bike and his adventures on it we moved on to talk about Brookwood Cemetary and the special train that used to take the dead and mourners there from London. I learned that you had to buy a one-way ticket for the casket – which makes total sense, but I’d never thought about it.

Laura stumbled across a shocking example of web design – as if I can talk! .

Two words for you Laura: Microsoft FrontPage.

It does bad things to people.