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X Mini II

I’m probably stealing the Wife’s thunder here as it’s she who wants to start blogging again. However, as she’s ironing I thought I’d drop a note about the X Mini IIs we’ve just bought for going on holiday with. You’ll … Continue reading

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Netbook Loveliness

Having still not found a real reason for one of these but just wanting to own one I finally succumbed yesterday and bought a shiny new netbook. We were in Costco and they were there calling out my name “Stuart, … Continue reading

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Luminarium

Spent the day today with our lovely friends (and each other obviously) and we all went up to Bowness in the Lake District to visit the luminarium. We are trying out a new feature in Picasa so the photos are … Continue reading

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Skate Update

We had a very odd post on our comments telling us that the Friday Night Skate site that we were linking to in an earlier post was actually to an imposter who is causing problems for the ‘proper’ operators of the … Continue reading

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Mini mod

You may (or most likely to be fair may not) be aware of people who ‘mod’ their cases. It is all about modifying the case in some way (lights, graphics, paint jobs, knobs, fans, switches or any other customising paraphernalia) … Continue reading

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Networky Stuff

This sounds completely unrelated to anything networking but hang on in there… Sadly at the end of last week one of our neighbours was broken into and had his plasma telly stolen by some thieving scumbags. We discovered later that … Continue reading

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Spare Time

I love the fact that the web is a playground for people with far too much creative time on their hands. One of my mates sent me this today and as I am a child of the ASCII art generation … Continue reading

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Lovely Party

I was out on Saturday night at a lovely works party, even though it is the right season for it it was not a christmas party, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the building I was in. There has never … Continue reading

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Things you want that you know you don’t need

I know I don’t need it but I so WANT one of these. I assume the novelty would wear off in about two seconds, and it would get annoying because it will probably only do the silly little hot dogs … Continue reading

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Dancing Daily

Found a link in the Guardian this weekend to an absolutely fantastic blog, www.dailydancer.com. The guy is an absolute star who just loves to dance and shares his passion for this regularly, hence the name. Anyway I can heartily recommend … Continue reading

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