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 was playing around on Genes Reunited the other day when I came across somebody with an ancestor called Hannah Curd from Donhead St. Andrew. Nothing particularly odd about that except that this is the first reference I have come across to a Curd in Wiltshire for the early 1800s. Thinking it was a new [...]
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For anyone interested in Amateur Radio, BAMA is an incredibly useful website as it carries hundreds of scanned instruction manuals, service guides and schematics. As well as the simple menu on the left, there are also links to many other online manual and handbook sites on the front page. In case you didn’t know, “BoatAnchor” [...]
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Seems that WordPress is now up to version 2.2 – just 6 weeks or so after the last upgrade! Before steaming in and making more changes to this site, I think I may wait a week or so just to make sure that there aren’t too many problem reports, not that I’m expecting any as [...]
It seems that some of my relatives may have had criminal tendencies. Early days yet, but I have been told that one branch had close connections with certain, well-known, East End villains. There are a few links and mentions out there on the net but I won’t reveal the full story until I know more. [...]
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After 100 days of recording spam statistics I have today stopped updating the graph. There’s not a lot of point continuing with it as the levels seem to have flattened out and, while the average is dropping slowly – about 1 per week, the downward slope is so shallow that it will be about 9 [...]
Logged into Joost this morning and now find I have 999 invites to distribute! If you want one, then leave your name and an email address in a comment and I’ll send one on. No charge but feel free to contribute to my beer fund
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Ever wondered what a website looked like or contained a few years ago? Well there’s no need to as WayBack Machine offers a way to do it. Just enter the domain name in the search box and click the button. Click on the relevant date and travel back in time – be warned though, some [...]
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