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 have given up trying to find a reliable Greymatter to WordPress conversion script and have just added the old stuff as static pages here. It seems to work OK even though there are a few odd things with some of the pages. There is also a link added to the bottom of the Archives [...]
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Take a look at this video, linked in the top left corner here. The thought of losing a few fingers is not one I care to dwell on – this saw is a step in the right direction. Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.
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I have just been reading this article over on the Ancestry.com blog. It seems that it’s possible to view at least the index to the 1910 US Census. Unfortunately here in the UK, somebody somewhere has decided that we should not be allowed to view our records after the 1901 collection. If you are anywhere [...]
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Just before the server crash I added a post about a visitor who kindly emailed to let me know they would be visiting. Having lost that post, I’m not sure if was the same person who sent this one: Hi there lovely, This kind of opportunity comes ones in a life. I don’t want to [...]
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In case you are wondering where the last few entries went. The site suffered a severe failure earlier today and I lost the last couple of weeks entries. Yes, I know, I should have had a more recent backup, one day I’ll get that organised! Yet again Garan saves the day! He managed to send [...]
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Over the last few months, I have grown to rely on my in-car TomTom GPS. It has the added speed-camera databse and provides me with just about all the extra info I can cope with when driving. When we took a trip up to Calne yesterday I naturally stuck “Jane” in the car. All well [...]
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I received the following email this morning: Do not ignore me pblease, I founaad your email somewhere and now decided to write you. I am coming to your place in few weeks and thought we can meet each other. Let me knowb iaf you do not mind. I ama a nice pretty bagirl. Don’t reply [...]
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I have been playing with a new search engine for a week or so now, it’s called Webfetch and it seems to be giving me the results I need rather than the deluge of advertising links that come from Google lately.It bills itself as “The best results from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, ASk.com and more…”, all [...]
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The County Press here have announced that Brian Eno will be appearing here on the Island at Bestival 2006, (Mmmm, that link appears broken at the moment) . Good news for me as I was pretty miffed at missing him recently at Bath Abbey. Radio 3 recorded that concert and replayed it sometime last week [...]
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