I fixed the cistern in our toilet this evening. For the last few months it has been making a noise like a tuba every time it fills up. Turns out the valve just needed dismantling and cleaning. While I was in there I found an alternative valve insert which the manufacturers had provided in case you have low water pressure. Well, our water pressure is really high, but I thought I’d give it a try anyway. I connected of all up and flushed, and it was an amazing spectacle. It filled the cistern with a deluge of water in about 20 seconds. I decided that the valve probably couldn’t cope with that long term, so I put the old one back. At least I silenced the toilet tuba.

I bought an iPhone last Friday. I arrived at the O2 store in Banbury at about 18:10. There was quite a party atmosphere with about 15 members of staff available, but there were only about 2 customers there apart from me. Nobody else bought anything while I was there, although I passed someone on the way to the shop posing for a photograph, beaming broadly and holding his “Got One!” bag for the camera to see.
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Here’s the Mac OS X Leopard version of the Airport menu shown in the previous post: (Update 2019-02-28: Skitch is long gone, so unfortunately that includes this image, which was hosted there) The lock icons are presumably quite useful for some people, although I only ever connect to either my home or office network so I never really even look at the menu.

I can see loads of WiFi routers from my house these days. A couple of years ago, mine was the only one. Oh yes, this post is also a test of the new Skitch Beta. (2019-02-28: removed dead link to an image that was hosted on Skitch which has now been lost forever)

My MacBook has been getting slower and slower lately, so today I started to investigate what the cause might be. I’d noticed a while ago that a message had started appearing in system.log: You can run update_prebinding from the shell but you don’t get any extra insight into the problem because the error message is exactly the same.
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