Is taking on a task for which you're totally unsuited heroic or stupid? This is, rest assured, a wholly rhetorical question; there is no heroism in DIY. I don't operate well without deadlines, it leads to unhelpful and continual re-evaluation. You wouldn't believe how many possible combinations of light fixtures exist. Even given that I've decided upon simple downlights, there are still a multitude of questions; acoustic and fire ratings, single or multiple circuits, CFL or LED lamps, argh!!

My other current decision making hell concerns dado trunking, although I think here I have at least reached a conclusion of sorts. Install cat6 capable dado (really it's all about the degrees!!) but only use it for power distribution at present because chasing walls for the rooms which need network drops but don't have them is just too traumatic a thought at present. Still not sure which particular style of dado thought!

Because of all this DIY software development has slowed to the point that you could now reasonably characterise it as stalled. Whilst I dearly love my dinky little Macbook, it just feels a little too constrained. Although I must say VMWare Fusion does a cracking job of running Visual Studio.

I can't wait to get back to my proper desk, and the widescreen loveliness of my usual 2 (so tempted to add another) monitors.

It's amazing that I find myself desperately trying to resurrect a fallen gadget. My beloved Tivo fell prey to the infamous green screen of death a couple of weeks ago. Now I replaced the drive and PSU (just for good measure). I figured that I might as well invest in a new remote too as the old one was getting a little temperamental.

Sadly, it looks like I might have bought a duff drive; the clicking is awfully remincient of imminent drive death. So I immediately ordered a new one, this time rather than the somewhat random choice I made initially this time a more expensive Seagate AV rated drive was purchased.

Why is this episode even remotely noteworthy? Well I can't remember the last time when a gadget died that I wasn't deliriously happy as it gave me the opportunity to upgrade to the latest and greatest product. The Tivo is an exception, to what I previously considered was the rule. There simply isn't a better PVR available in the UK right now.

I'll hold my hands up, I screwed up the colour choice for this site. I was meddling and decided the scheme looked ok-ish, so I uploaded it. I shouldn't have done so without thorough testing, and were this any other web property I manage I wouldn't have done.

But really, quit bitching about it - you're effectively reading the web equivalent of the inky scratching on my desk blotter. Presentation should be the least of your worries, if there's any value to be had in the site to anyone other than me it's surely the content and even that's a stretch!

I always suspected this might be the case, but now I have empirical data.

When you want a nice big round full-stop do you end up with a comma instead?

The problem is that last little piece of detritus that you failed to remove. It's that last tiny hanger-on that makes your full-stop a comma.

There's probably a life lesson in there somewhere!