He was tellingly absent from the last episode I thought

I had this problem. There’s some way of forcing Spotlight to index your hard drive. You add it to the privacy list (“do not index”) and then wait a few seconds and remove it again. This forces a re-index.

“It just works!” 🫠

None of this makes sense to me as my understanding for 50 years or so is that "James Bond" is an alias, which was how Connery turned into Lazenby etc

45 minutes in total, plus the 11 minutes I wasted with their online chat. It remains to be seen if the £1287 will be refunded…

I prefer the before

Just walking around the house with the electrician, working out where all the sockets were and what was plugged into them was absolutely mortifying

In news that is no surprise to anyone who lives in this house, it turns out that, at some stage in the past, some amateur did some electrics, creating two different circuits that don't meet, and which will probably lead to us having very limited ampage

Enjoyed this episode. Your discussion of Hallowe'en and Bonfie night merging made me laugh, because of course the fires of Samhain are *meant* to be on the 31st Oct, but we spun them off onto the Guy Fawkes thing.
(That's according to this article I read in Riff Snippet Monthly)

Yes, and their failure to top and tail the episodes properly meant I could add a couple of instrumental tracks to my background noise playlist!

This episode clearly inspired by one of the writers accidentally dialling a fax number that one time.

When I worked for HMIT, a dude did this and then entered it in the office accident book