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!
Well that’s it, the digger is back with the hire company, the work is done and nothing got broken. I can thoroughly recommend hiring a mini-digger, I had great fun with it and surprisingly it didn’t take long to get to grips with. At first the controls were a bit strange and I found I [...]
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Filed under: Family, Isle of Wight
If you need network storage, Maplin have what looks like a good deal on suitable cases here at the moment, it’s live ’til 15/05/2007 – it’s just a shame that these new Hitachi drives to go in them are SATA! I’ve been toying with doing this for a while but never quite got around to [...]
There’s a tall (and wide) bank at the end of our garden which needs levelling. It’s a bit too much of a job to shift all that soil etc by hand, so we’ve hired a 1.5 tonne mini-digger for this weekend. Hopefully it should help do the job fairly quickly or at least make a [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight
Steve sent me this little tip today. Go to www.google.com Click on “maps” Click on “get directions” Type “New York” in the first box (the “from” box) Type “London” in the second box (the “to” box) Hit get directions Scroll down to and check, step #24 Good luck
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Filed under: Funny, Search Engines
Google have added a, long-awaited, charting function to their spreadsheet facility. I have taken a stab at using it in my Spam Count audit.
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Filed under: Search Engines, Software
My Snarfer RSS news feed collector is showing many links to one particular article today, to save you clicking through to it, here is a direct link. It suggests that man’s creativity stems from beer. Many are suggesting that this guy works for a brewery which doesn’t even make real beer but that aside, it’s [...]
I’ve recently been using a MacBook Pro laptop and, whilst I dearly love the thing, I found I was constantly clipping Caps Lock with my little finger. When your typing is as bad as mine that’s a pain. Anyhow a quick look around the System Preferences found the Keyboard | Modifier Keys settings and, lo [...]
Google Notebooks are a new Google feature which makes it very easy to collect information snippets from your surfing. This is great for all sorts of applications but in my case, a real boon for genealogy bits and pieces. A nice little Firefox add-in completes the application. Note: You’ll need to setup a Google account [...]
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Filed under: Search Engines, Software, Techie
I think my old Dell 8200 desktop is in need of an MOT! For the last few weeks I seem to be suffering from low memory warnings and something running somewhere which is grabbing system resources by the bucketload. Some time ago I tried using FreeRam XP, but that didn’t seem to like my system [...]
I upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3 on April 3rd and, so far, all is good. The main thing I have noticed is the lack of attempted comment spam posting. Over there in the right hand toolbar is a little Akismet counter, it’s been sitting on the same number (1064) since the day I upgraded – seems [...]
