This is getting daft….
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Brian
If you don’t already have a DVD player, this offer from Asda seems worth investigating.
If nothing else, the price is right!
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Cars OK, Waterfall is better!
Posted on January 19th, 2007 by Brian
Apparently this technology has been around for a while.
YouTube – Jeep® Waterfall
Well worth a look.
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Census Release Period
Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Brian
Downing Street is offering a petition for people to sign, which would reduce the census release period from 100 years to 70 years, thus making the 1911, 1921 and 1931 censuses available immediately.
If you would like to add your name, please click here
I mentioned this once before, and there was some movement in [...]
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Windy Day
Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Brian
I’ve been using a really nice weather web site for a while now. It’s located in Newchurch – about a mile or so away from me and displays all the info using Flash.
At the moment it’s gusting at about 50 mph and the suggestion is that it’s going to get worse!
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Wide Area Wireless
Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Brian
I am experimenting with a spare Linksys WRT54g wireless router. I bought a decent antenna for it, and then set about making the cable to connect it.
Mmmm… seems that not everyone stocks the required reverse plugs for both the n-type connector on the antenna and the Linksys TNC socket. After a lot of searching, [...]
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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.7
Posted on January 16th, 2007 by Brian
I’ve not upgraded Wordpress (the basis of this blog) for quite a while and had fallen a fair way behind. Today I decided to “bite the bullet” and install the latest version, 2.0.7 – download here.
It all seems to have gone well and the pages look the same as before (phew!) I guess it’s always [...]
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Hidden somewhere at CES
Posted on January 9th, 2007 by Brian
A year or two ago, a few of us were talking our normal nonsense in the local pub and the discussion got around to uses for mobile phones.
We went through all the usual stuff but then started thinking it might be a good idea if one could contain some kind of projector – DLP [...]
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Spam…. (2)
Posted on January 9th, 2007 by Brian
According to The Register, I’m not the only one to notice a drop in spam emails recently. It seems Softscan saw a “..significant drop in junk mail volumes..“.
The story is a little confused as the first paragraph talks about a sudden drop but the article later talks about “..a gradual drop off..” ??
Sudden or gradual [...]
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