TV: ‘The Event’ (Channel 4). What the..?

If you liked TV series such as: ‘X Files’ and more recently, enjoyed ‘Lost’, (before they padded out the series too much and spoiled it with such a c*** ending), then take a look at Channel 4’s new series, ‘The Event’ (which started last night – 9pm). A passenger plane that disappears just as it’s …
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Wine or Chocolate?

Which is nicer: Wine or chocolate? Can’t decide? How about a wine bottle MADE of chocolate? – Perfect, just perfect!!! Thanks girls!!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s!  My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together …
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Me – as a piece of furniture!

As if writing the yearly school magazine and designing/maintaining the ex-pupil website wasn’t enough, the attendees at today’s AGM have voted me in as the new chairman of The Old Croydonians’ Association – ‘ The OCA’. So that’s THREE jobs now! On the plus-side, the role is a challenging and exciting one, and gives me …
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Test

Just a test Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s!  My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing seemed to be the perfect combination to contribute a few words …
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Cinema: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I’ve just learned that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is coming to the big screen on December 9 – just in time for Christmas. That’s excellent news, as I thought the first two big-screen adaptations were simply brilliant!! Written in 1950, by C S Lewis, and published in 1952, Lucy and Edmund Pevensie together …
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TV: The Apprentice

The sixth series of The Apprentice started tonight. Any similarities between the contestants appearing on the show and real human beings is entirely coincidental! With each series, the contestants’ behaviour seems to be more extreme and their  ever-increasing sized egos almost needs a house of its own to stay in!!! Now, I know it’s good …
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Christmas Cards

Well, if Tesco’s are selling their Christmas stuff already, surely it’s OK to start writing my Christmas cards isn’t it? I reckon just like last year, we’ve got around 250-300 to write, so maybe it’s good to try and get ahead. In fact, thinking about it, I think I’m slightly later this year getting started!!!  …
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Business Blog

For a while now, my business blog has been sitting happily on a WordPress, domain (WordPress provide our free blogging facilities). However, for visitors, it must have seemed a bit strange to suddenly be whisked away from the main SPA Ltd site, to a page hosted elsewhere. I’ve therefore been thinking about how, technologically speaking, …
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Tech Alert: Facebook App for Windows Mobile

If you’re a fan of Facebook and you have the official ‘app’ from Windows Marketplace on your smart-phone, you will no doubt be cursing the fact, that recently it’s developed a fault and stopped automatically updating changes to your friends’ status. The work-around has been to log-out of the app and then log-in again. Hardly …
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I Feel Like Chicken Tonight!

Well, this afternoon actually. Ann and Lee sorted out a superb roast-chicken-with-all-the-trimmings lunch today. There was just enough for around 5000 people, but between us, we made short work of it all!! There’s only one thing left now, to complete the perfect Sunday afternoon, and that’s… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in …
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Chardonnay and the Security Suite!

All-in-all, the installations went well, but I do believe that there is an unwritten ‘law’ – probably called ‘The Law of Sod’, that kicks-in just when you are least expecting it!!! Our story begins…I downloaded the 2011 version of the new AVG Security Suite with a view to sequentially installing it on all the PCs …
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