Monthly Archives: August 2006

blogosfear

blog·o·sphere (blŏg‘ə-sfîr‘) n.The set of all weblogs on the Internet. blog·os·fear (blŏg‘ə-sfîr‘) n. Fear that no-one reads your blog.

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Good news and bad news

I had an MSN message from Dave yesterday telling me my letter to .net magazine was published as the star letter. Eager to see what my prize was (since I’d forgotten having written) I opened my copy of the magazine. … Continue reading

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Male exclusion zones

Whilst it still irks me that I can’t enter the ‘Orange  Prize for Fiction’ (restricted to women, but the fact that I haven’t written anything should be ignored), I see there’s hope for my being able to join a London … Continue reading

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Rural world has DAB

At last, I can receive radio without having to do so via the internet or Satellite TV 🙂 We have little or no analogue signal so I have been checking my postcode for three years to see if I can … Continue reading

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Shock therapy

A few years ago I spent a great weekend in France with Vince & Dave rewiring our old house there. Having come back from a meal and a few beers at about 1am we entered the house in total darkness. … Continue reading

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Free lunch (but not so palatable)

Along with other backup software I used Genie Backup until (ironically) my machine crashed and I was unable to locate the CD (which had come as a free version on the cover of a magazine). It has a couple of … Continue reading

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Ahead of their time (how to keep software from being dated prematurely)

Ipswitch, creators of WS_FTP Pro have announced a product update on their website: WS_FTP Professional 2007 – Released July 18, 2006

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Opening Pandora’s box

I came across www.pandora.com and didn’t really get going with it until I was reminded of it about 6 weeks ago by someone else. I have been plugging it by phone and email and pub conversation ever since and it … Continue reading

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Virgin on the ridiculous

“Virgin Galactic is constructing up to seven commercial spaceships that will fly 87 miles (156 kilometres) above the earth’s surface to give passengers about 5 minutes of weightlessness. Commercial flights to space could be taking off from Britain within five … Continue reading

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When is a low cost airline not a low cost airline?

When the price starts at £39.99 each way per person (so £159.96 total) and rises with taxes, surcharges, insurance and booking fee (the only one you can opt out of is the insurance @ £8ppp). Without luggage, the total is … Continue reading

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