Monthly Archives: January 2007

A celebration of Vista

To celebrate the long-awaited release of Windows Vista, another fine product from our fine friends at Microsoft, I downloaded and installed the most recent version of Ubuntu Linux (6.10).  I’ve wanted to replace my install of Freespire which was slow, … Continue reading

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A Sad Goodbye

It’s certainly a sign of the times – on Sunday we bade farewell to our piano. It was a lovely overstrung, upright piano that we had bought with money that people had very generously given us for our wedding. I … Continue reading

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Going to Mozambique, and I need your help

It may sound absolutely crazy, especially given the impending birth of $child_number_one, but I’ve just had confirmation that I, along with my friends Alan and Gary, are going to Mozambique from the 14th – 21st February. It’s not a holiday … Continue reading

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Ah, more time off

But not sick this time… I had a week left of holiday time due to me and I have to take it before the end of March so it’s feet up time. It’s not all rest and relaxation though, I’m … Continue reading

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Broke by dose

Yup – I did a stupid thing. Managed to a get a foot in the face at football on Monday night, and I’ve broken my nose. It’s not particularly noticable (hasn’t ruined my rugged, manly good looks), but it hurt … Continue reading

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New Antispam

Well – after some continuing issues both with mail in general, but specifically with the quality of the spam filtering (or lack thereof) with PlusNet, I decided that it was time to add in some extra filtering. Enter GMail, Googles … Continue reading

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Roundup Post

Just a few holiday matters to clear up: BigAl, GuyIncognito and I went off for some post-Christmas, pre-New Year beers at Bier Halle, and once again partaked in the drinking of Moosehead, and hatched a (beer fuelled) plan to try … Continue reading

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Happy New Year

Just a quick post (as on Christmas Day) to wish you all a happy new year – I hope that it will be a blessed year for you all mrBen

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