This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
I recently got an email from somebody I hadn’t heard from for ages. She had made contact 3 years ago or more about a common ancestor and we established that she was descended from one of my remote cousins. All well and good and it was nice to fill in a few gaps in my [...]
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Filed under: Family, Hobbies, Home, Isle of Wight
Looking back on this blog a recurring theme has been email spam and my attempts to clear my inbox of this plague. This blog uses built in WordPress tools to ensure that I don’t see any spam posted in the comments but keeping control of my mail client’s filters isn’t quite so easy – I [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight, Scams, Software, Spam, Techie
Well the hype is over and the web is alive with reviews, “hands-ons” and more about Apple’s latest release, the iPad. Yes, I like Apple products and yes, I did follow the bloggers covering today’s event; but I have a small problem before parting with my hard earned cash. Why? well take a look at [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Hardware, Isle of Wight, Techie
Here they go again….. My BT broadband speed seems to have settled at 2,720Mb/s over the last few days. It seems that BT are playing games again…. When I phoned them today to ask what was going on they promptly offered to reduce my monthly payments…. took me almost 2 seconds to accept!
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Hosting, Isle of Wight, Techie
Well it does really… we had a couple of inches of snow during last night and it’s still coming down in fits and starts today. These are the views from our house in Winford this morning (click on the pics for bigger versions): The back garden probably best shows the scene, but here’s one of [...]
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Filed under: Home, Isle of Wight, Seasonal
Checked the BT HomeHub again today and now find it’s reading 4,320 Kbps! Somebody at OpenReach is fiddling with things again… UPDATE: Mmm… I spoke too soon, today Wed 06/01/2010 it’s back to 3,776 Kbps….. ;(
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Isle of Wight, Techie
For ages now I’ve had a BT broadband speed (recorded by the BT Home Hub) of 3,200Kbps. This has been disputed by the SamKnows speed trial but it’s near enough. Anyhow, for the past few days the Home Hub has been showing 3,800Kbps. I have no idea what BT have done to get the improvement, they [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Isle of Wight, Techie
The single thing which causes most problems for the WordPress users I know is uploading and positioning images in their posts. Hopefully I have found a solution which will make things quite a bit easier – it’s called “Freebie Images” and is a WP plugin – you can get it here. I just installed it [...]
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Filed under: Cars, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Photography, Software, Techie
Those clever people at Ventnor Blog have today launched a new Island Events site at http://events.onthewight.com/. In their words…. People often say that nothing happens on the Isle of Wight but having run VentnorBlog for the past four years, we know this is far from true – so we’ve setup the Events On The Wight [...]
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Filed under: Home, Isle of Wight
Out here in the sticks I have often moaned about the speed of my BT connection. Now I have proof thanks to the survey I have been helping with. About a year ago I applied to help with a UK broadband speed survey at SamKnows, I now have access to the results and can see [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
