Monthly Archives: November 2007

A nice senior moment

Browsing ‘Windows XP for Seniors’

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Child in need (that’ll be me)

Ok so I got a bit carried away at the Children In Need auction. It will be a repeat of a few years ago but this time from 14,000ft above the Lake District. This was me about five years ago … Continue reading

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So long and thanks for the fish

Rather irritatingly my version of Norton Ghost could not be actiavted after a machine rebuild as the online registration stated I’d exceeded the number of permitted activations. Tech support first dismissed my request to fix it stating that the product … Continue reading

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Mr baggage man

Having just gone to download a piece of freeware called ‘set name to time’ which allows you to re-datestamp digital photos I was drawn to this explanation on the home page: “Seth Name To Time is to for practical utility … Continue reading

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Travel woes

I was planning to update my travel pics at mapsack but got the following: Sorry! An Internal Error occured! [-1] DB Error: unknown error I won’t embarrass the mapsack folk by publishing the SQL dump which followed but they will … Continue reading

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Maybe a free lunch – OpenDNS

Worth the 5 minutes it takes to switch to OpenDNS with claims of: faster speed auto-corrected URL typos (google.co.ku gets me to google.co.uk for example) protection from phishing via its large up to date database ( See a blocked site … Continue reading

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Whitespace goes down a black hole

I can’t find the original posting about the whitespace programming language It must have gone down a blog black hole, but now recovered at the whitespace home page

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Drop Kick Me Jesus

Yes there really is a country song called “Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts Of Life”.

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Crabbie Dick’s

With Winter setting well in here in the Cumbrian Fells, I turned to some application of warmth to my desktop wallpaper from my photo collection. Whilst “Crabbie Dick’s” in Key West was a venue not easily forgotten, my first encounter … Continue reading

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.net take two – but still no cigar

So my second letter to .net magazine got published and was the first letter on the page, but I still missed the elusiveĀ star letter slot. I think my intended mild sarcasm might have been lost in translation too šŸ™

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