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!
There are plans underway to organise a CURD family get together for those interested tracing the family history. This applies particularly to people, like me, who can trace their ancestry back to John CURD and Susannah PYMLEY in Hertfordshire UK. It’s hoped to hold the event in September 2008 in Sarratt Herts – stay tuned [...]
I’ve tried various, so called, Spyware removal tools in the past with varying levels of success, I even dabbled with commercial offerings for a while but they all seemed to suffer bloat syndrome in that they lost sight of the “spyware ball” and all insisted on installing other layers of protection which I had covered [...]
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Been called to fix three PCs recently, all of them displayed the same fault and that had a common cause – each of the machines was being used while standing on a laminate floor! At first I would have thought that a hard clean surface was as good a place as any to put the [...]
I suppose this is a case of severe cold war paranoia – the BBC website has a very interesting section about the underground complex beneath Corsham in Wiltshire – take a look at it here. The very fact that all this has been revealed must now mean I can freely talk about going there many [...]
This time of year always seems to encourage a sudden burst in genealogy activity – I have made three solid new contacts for my tree in the last couple of weeks and am looking forward to making a few steps further back on the CURD line and a completely new start on the GRANT tree [...]
