Now here is a really clever bit of tech – really, really clever. No, REALLY! If you’ve got a digital camera AND it stores its photos on an ‘SD card’, put one of these on your Christmas list. What does it do? It might look like an ordinary SD card, in fact it’s a ‘class …
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Author:Steve Palmer
I 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 to the online community. But I'm no Samuel Pepys! If you're looking for deep and meaningful comments on a variety of subjects, then you've arrived at the wrong site! I only pen for pleasure! On average, my posts appear about twice per month, covering family & friends, cinema visits, eating out, holiday experiences and techy stuff. Oh, and as this is my hobby, there are no sponsored links nor adverts here – it's all done with love!
I hope you find it enjoyable, interesting and occasionally, even helpful!
Saturday in Bury St Edmunds
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr As part of my pre-birthday treat, we’re here in Bury St Edmunds with Lee, David and Val – staying at The Angel. After a really (really) good night’s sleep (I was shattered after eight days training in two weeks) – I’m ready to take on the world…and The …
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The Angel
Rush, rush,rush. Although I managed to finish my Course early, it was still a bit of a rush when I got home (around 4.30). Ann got in not long after and we ran around like mad things, to try and get ready for a 6pm departure. Actually, we didn’t do too badly, as …
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Test Post
Hello World! Just testing a new plug-in for Facebook 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 …
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Blog here, blog there
Like a lot of bloggers, I tend to blog at different locations. Sometimes it’s from the main PC at home and sometimes it’s on my NetBook when I’m on the train. And being inherently lazy, I sometimes blog from the PC downstairs at home because I can’t be bothered to walk up the few stairs …
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Holiday Photos
I finally got around to re-organising and tidying up the holiday photos that I have on my web-site. IN later years, I switched to using Google Photos. You can view them at: https://www.StevePalmer.com/pics.html Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My …
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Debbie Does… Kettering
Jo and Janet picked us up and we joined Debbie, Stefan and a load of the neighbours at Berardi’s in Kettering to celebrate Deb’s 50th. We’d not been there before, so we weren’t sure what to expect. It’s just opposite Sainsbury’s in the town, so parking was easy! As we entered the place, we could …
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NetBook Upgrade
I decided to upgrade my Samsung N130 NetBook today from the rather basic Windows 7 Starter Edition to the more substantial Windows 7 Home Premium. It was a bit of a gamble as the spec on the NetBook was a bit below that recommended by Microsoft. I did it because the networking capabilities with non-Win7 …
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Cat’s In – Plasters out!
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr It’s that time again, where we take our life in our hands and attempt to get the cats – Biscuit and Bon-Bon, in their cat carriers and off to Patsy for their six-weekly wash-and brush-up. Actually, this time they weren’t too bad, Bon-Bon was hunted down and dropped-in …
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Out with the Chair…In with the Chair
I left frighteningly early this morning – 3.45am – to ensure a trouble-free journey to my old school. Luckily, it was one of the most trouble-free journey I’d ever had, resulting in me getting there at just after 6am! Time for a snooze in the car!!! The reason for the journey, was a full-committee meeting …
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Testing testing…
We´re round at Lee´s test driving the kitchen facilities, to see if they can cope with a full-scale ´dinner-for-four-or-more´. The challenge is that none of the controls are marked on the cooker, so we don´t know what-does-what… and with the kitchen a bit small for three chefs (!!!), it´s a good job we didn´t bring …
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TV: Merlin – Season 3, Episode 1
The third series of BBC’s Merlin got off to a great start tonight. Over the next 13 weeks, we’re promised that the story-lines in this latest series are going to be a lot darker than previous. “The battle for Camelot begins…” Excellent!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing …
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A Stroll around Stamford
After last night’s late night, we slept in for a bit and the Ann, Nicki and I took a drive up to Stamford for a mooch round. We started off at the gorgeous Burghley House and then Lee treated us all to lunch at The George in Stamford. A quick walk round the shops and …
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Fish & Chips and… Avatar
With Friday-night Fish and Chips organised, Jo, Janet, Lee and Nikki joined us for supper and then we all watched Avatar on Blu-ray (is there any other colour for this film!). Ann and I had seen it at the cinema back in February in 3D. At the time, I’d been brief about the film …
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Test Two
Double-checking that this Blog is auto-posting to Twitter. Some moments later… “Yes it is!!!” 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 …
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Two Useful ‘Plug-ins’ for Windows Live Writer
Stumbled on a really useful couple of ‘plugins’ today for Windows Live Writer. Import and Export Wizard First up, it’s a plug-in created by Kobi that allows you to export all your WLW settings to a single file. It’s obviously useful as a backup strategy, but in addition, it allows you to import that same …
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Techy Day
I drove down the Camberley in Surrey today to help Maggie C out with a few PC techy problems and help her choose a NetBook. I left frighteningly early – 4.15am – because I know, from experience, that it can be a nightmare of a journey, simply because it involves the M25! The bad news …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 6
So, here we are on our final full-day here. The weather forecast is excellent (again), and so we’re going to drive up to Belfast and explore the city. 9.30am: As usual, there’s nothing on the roads, so it was a straightforward journey to Belfast. We parked in Castle Court car-park and that gave us direct …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 5
Here we are then, approaching the end of the holiday – with just one more day to go! The weather forecast is for a hot day (again!), something like 20-21 degrees, so we’re going to drive south, down to Newry and then onto Kilkeel on the coast and then follow the coast road up to …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 4
After what felt like yesterday’s circumnavigation of the globe, we’re taking it a bit easier today! So, we’ll spent most of the morning at the apartment, catching-up with our reading. 10.45am: It’s the warmest day so far – 19 degrees – so we’re heading out to National Trust’s Rowallane Gardens. What a beautiful place …
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Posting problems
For some reason, none of my (holiday) blogs containing photographs can be posted whilst we’re away. It might be something to do with the extremely slooooow internet connection here, or, something more complex than that. Anyway, it’s Wednesday, and normal (blogging) service will continue once we get back on Saturday, when I’ll hopefully post some …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 3
Up at 7, as it’s pay-day and I wanted to square the money before we went out today. It’s the great trek northwards today, hopefully to include a scenic route offered by Peter at The Cuan last night. We’re planning to visit The Giant’s Causeway. As things turned out though, it was a day of …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 2
I was up around 7.30. and looking out of the window, it looks like a fine day ahead – and it’s a Bank-Holiday too, surely that’s not right! Having travelled around the south-eastern part from our apartment yesterday, today we’re going to head west and then north. It’ll also give us an opportunity during …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 1
A lie-in… unbelievable. Until 8.30… even more so!!! Weather-wise, it looks like a fine day although there’s a strong wind blowing that gave it a wintery feel every so often. 10.15am: Today, we decided to explore the ‘south-eastern’ corner from where we are. So, after a quick breakfast, we set off heading off in the …
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Holiday in Ireland – Travel Day
9.55am: We’re off to Ireland – Belfast – Strangford Lough to be precise. It’s a self-catering apartment in an idyllic spot, about an hour’s drive from the George Best Belfast City Airport and very close to the water. We left home just before 10am and 50 minutes later, we were at Birmingham T2. Initially, the …
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Techy Day II
I popped round to Lee´s to fix her printer/photocopier and install DropBox onto her PC so it networks with ours. Related articles Dropbox icons now respect your global theme (no more manually replacing them!) (omgubuntu.co.uk) Want to email files to your Dropbox? Send to Dropbox does just that. (thenextweb.com) Send to Dropbox Adds Files to …
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Techy Day
A bit of a techy-day’ today. Great – I love days like this! I spent the morning over at Julie’s helping her to add some apps to her new shiny new phone, the excellent Windows mobile OS HTC Touch 2 and install the 16Gb micro SD card. Unfortunately, I couldn’t help much with Tom’s new …
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Film: Salt
We went to our local Odeon today and saw the 6pm performance of Salt starring Angelina Jolie. With the next James Bond film on-hold because of financial difficulties, this film was marketed as having the potential to fill the action-movie gap and spawn at least one sequel, if not, a whole series of sequels! The …
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Where were you in 1984?
Found this on You-Tube. As a spritely 28 year-old who was into MIke Oldfield, Rick Wakeman and the like, ‘Camel’ was also one of my fave bands at the time. This was filmed at the then, Hammersmith Odeon on 11th May, 1984, as part of their live stationary traveller tour – I (think) I was …
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Lunch with Steve S
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Steve popped over for our normal three-monthly get-together and we went for lunch at our standard haunt: Hobson’s Choice. Actually, it’s been slightly longer than three months, as I noticed we last saw each other back in March. Steve brought a selection of wedding pictures with him showing-off …
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