Author: Carrie

  • French lessons

    That’s me back from an early summer holiday – with a little bigmouth on the way, a late summer holiday ain’t happening – and it’ll take me a few days to get back to normal. So here’s a few quick thoughts: * One week away, 897 spams to wade through on my return. Arse. *…

  • Back in a bit

    I’m off for a much-needed holiday. Back soon.

  • Scientologists know where I live

    I’ve just received an anti-BBC DVD in the post, which promises the truth about the Beeb’s controversial Scientology programme. They know where I live! Aieeeee!

  • I travel*

    Back in 2004, I travelled to Los Angeles to cover a Microsoft thing.  My back was grumbling before I went, but by the time I came back the joys of long haul travel meant I could barely walk. Eventually I ended up getting back surgery, which cost even more than a full retail copy of…

  • Is Apple going to update the MacBook Pro this week?

    Of course it is. I’ve just had my new one delivered. [Oops, that sounds like I’ve got a super-secret unreleased MBP. I haven’t – long term readers will know that every single time I replace any Mac hardware, Apple promptly announces a newer, better version days afterwards.] 

  • Phoenix First would like to give me a free holiday

    Mrs Bigmouth was at a baby show the other week, and entered a few prize draws. And she won a holiday! Well, not quite. What she did win was the opportunity to be ripped off by a bunch of bastards. Nice of them to go after pregnant women and tired new parents, isn’t it? Let…

  • The Sun’s sneaky Charlotte Church story

    The Sun has been slapped for a rather underhand story about Charlotte Church, which broke the PCC rules on pregnancy: you don’t report pregnancies before the 12-week stage. That’s because if something’s going to go wrong, it’s likely to go wrong before the 12-week point – which is why in many cases people don’t tell…

  • A good day to bury bad news

    Government: Look! Over there! It’s Blair! He’s finally resigning! *everybody runs over to listen to Blair’s speech* *government waits until everyone’s out of earshot* Government (whispering): The ID card system’s going to cost another half billion. Ah, ID cards. Remember them? They were going to cost £3.1 billion and save us all from everything. The…

  • For god’s sake Microsoft, support your own file formats

    The other day, a nice man at Microsoft sent me an interesting document in Microsoft Word format. I couldn’t open it, because I’m using Microsoft Word on the Mac. He’s on Office 2007, I’m on Office 2004. Office 2004 no likey Office 2007 files. Dear Mr Microsoft, I replied. Thanks for the file. Any chance…

  • Baby, this DVD is driving me crazy

    Mrs Bigmouth and I headed off to hospital yesterday for a 20-week pregnancy scan (everything’s fine, thanks) and on departure, the doctor gave us a shiny disc. Excellent, I thought. We’ve had one of these before. It’s a CD with some screenshots of the scan. It turns out it was even better than that. It…