BBC iPlayer

I haven’t used this for a while and after the short download of the updated version, the picture and sound seemed to be much better quality. It gave me an opportunity to watch Series 7, episode 2 of ‘Spooks’ that I’d forgotten to add into the SkyPlus yesterday. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late …
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Music: Cascada

Picked up a couple of Albums by Cascada from play.com Lots of good tunes as well as a few slow versions of the dance tracks. “What Hurts the Most” video is HERE Latest video “Everytime we Touch” on YouTube <img src="https://www.stevepalmer.com/blog/uploaded_images/MusicCascada_BFD6/video65ec8b53a237.jpg" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5597ec18-db78-47ab-9e5e-b98c850df557'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = " https://www.youtube.com/v/GUsb5HP7Ajg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1″;” alt=””> Cascada’s web-site is HERE …
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Alison for lunch in Peterborough

I drove over the Peterborough today to meet Alison W. We used to occasionally work together when running management courses for Nokia in the UK. We reckon we haven’t seen each other for almost 10 years!!Alison is now working part-time and has two kids – Rhys and Bethan. We had lunch at John Lewis’ and although …
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Sunny Sunday!

It was a gorgeous day here today – wall-to-wall sunshine. Ann started preparing the garden for Winter, whilst I started to write the Christmas cards* (In October???? 😲, well, there are around 300 to write!!) It was the perfect day for polishing the car too! *Totally organised or totally sad? (delete as applicable) Steve PalmerI …
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Trip to Lincoln to see Bev

We took a drive to Lincoln today to meet up with Bev, who we haven’t seen for a while. We arrived at 12.30 – after a frustrating journey that diverted us via Oundle. After a brief introduction to ‘Smokey’, Bev’s rabbit we headed for the Wharf for lunch. Bev suggested we tried ‘The Ultimate Burger’ …
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The Laptop dies…

Bugger! The laptop started playing up today – very slow and then it wouldn’t boot at all! Those very helpful people at Dell helped it to boot again, but it was still very sluggish when loading programs. I also found some suspicious activity in the start-up routine (various dll files with random letter-strings as their …
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