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Category Archives: mrBen
Soccer Showdown
Having a smartphone has completely changed my phone usage. In particular, my phone has now become my primary game platform (although I’m very enamoured with the work’s Barnes and Noble Nook Color I have running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)). One type … Continue reading
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Elderly
It’s funny how numbers fall into sequences if you look hard enough. This year, for instance, it will be 25 years since I became a Christian, 20 years since I started working with Steve Bedford, and 15 years since I … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, mrBen
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Charge Steamer – First ride
My new bike arrived yesterday, and I thought it would be good to write a small review of the unboxing and first ride, and then follow up with a post after a couple of weeks/months of riding. Unboxing The bike … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, mrBen
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New Year, New Bike, New Target
Having achieved my target of 1,000 miles on my bike in 2010, it was time to reassess the bike situation. Whilst the Peugeot has been a faithful beast, it has also begun to show signs of general wear and tear, … Continue reading
Some Disruption May Occur
While playing around with Google Instant preview, I discovered that the preview of Jedimoose.org showed a big page of spam. So it would appear that we had been exploited (through xmlrpc FWIW). In order to deal with this issue, I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, General, Internet, mrBen
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One-oh-Oh-OH!
I was going to attempt to write this post in the style and meter of the Proclaimers hit ’500 miles’, but in the end it was too much like hard work. Last week I finally achieved one of the targets … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, General, mrBen
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Getting ready to move
In 3 days time, we’re moving house. We’re upsizing to a nice 3 bed end-terrace house in Knightswood. But it’s a huge move for a couple of reasons: 1. I’ve lived in Glasgow for 14 years now. This is the … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, mrBen
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The Big Android App Review
OK. Here it is. A review of every app that I have installed, or have previously installed through the marketplace. Which is a lot. They’ll be short reviews, but hopefully you’ll appreciate one or two of the gems that are … Continue reading
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Some Android Links
As some of you know, I’ve been feeling the love for my Android-based HTC Desire (even though Orange _still_ haven’t released FroYo). There are hundreds (if not thousands) of android websites, so I thought I would share a couple of … Continue reading
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My son is one
Title purely for poetry Last Thursday (19th) Jamie turned one. The last year has been amazing, if somewhat disruptive, what with a new job to contend with too, and the change in direction with church. And now we’re thinking about … Continue reading
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Cycle Commuting
I’m now over 6 months into the adventure of cycle commuting, so I thought it was time to put some reflections online briefly. I actually really enjoy doing it, even in the rain. I’ve covered over 650 miles in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, mrBen
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Syncing Feeling
If you’ve read my last couple of posts, you’ll know that I am, overall, extremely happy with my HTC Desire phone. Once HTC/Orange get around to pushing out Android 2.2 I suspect I will be even happier However, I have … Continue reading
Going Googley
So I’ve changed browser from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome. This is a big deal for me – I’ve been a Mozilla user for years now, and I still think they do great work. However, there are a few big … Continue reading
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$4,134,035
No, I’ve not won the lottery. That’s my final score on ‘High Roller Casino’ on my Nokia after numerous successful Texas Hold ‘em tournaments. And it’s the final score because yesterday I took delivery of a new phone, the HTC … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, mrBen, Toys & Games
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The PVR Conundrum
I’ve blogged in the past about my exploits with MythTV, and playing around with Personal Video Recorders. Over Christmas we bought ourselves a new TV and DVD player, to replace our aged tv, freeview box and dvd player, all of … Continue reading
rock.net.uk vs hardplace.com
Those of you with geek leanings, and possibly some of you who aren’t, will have experienced the problem – you have a great idea for a new project/product/business/etc and you’ve come up with a name for it and it’s beginning … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Internet, mrBen
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New Job
OK – it’s not really new any more – been here for more than 3 months. But I promised Félim that I would blog about it I started work on Nov 16th at Central with the job title of ‘Junior … Continue reading
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No such thing as a free bike…
Back in December 2007 I tried a bit of cycle commuting on a borrowed mountain bike. I stopped when I realised that it wasn’t really saving me any money, and because I thought I was about to move to a … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, mrBen
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Happy New Year
Wow – I am so behind on blog posts it’s unbelievable. I have 3 or 4 in my head at the moment. However, just a small one for now to wish all our readers a Happy New Year. Some things … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Cycling, mrBen
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Code Release!
It’s been a while since I released any code into the public realm. Until today \o/ Sadly, the code is probably not something that many people are interested in, but I was interested and that’s enough for me Whetstone is … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Faith, Linux, mrBen
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