Category:Holiday

That’ll teach me to get smug about the alarm problems sorting themselves out on my PDA. Today, for no reason, the alarms stopped working again. The last time this happened was on the 30th January and I was convinced that the original problems had been down to my faulty PDA back-up program. Obviously not! Still, …
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Met up with Ian at Coventry University today. We decided to try out the local Lebanese restaurant just up the road for lunch ‘Aqua’ – excellent food!! 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 …
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We took a drive up to ‘The George’ in Stamford with Lee and Bertie. We also had a quick look round the town. The service in The George was very poor, but it was good to chill out! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – …
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No not ours! We’re off to Stratford-upon-Avon today to meet Dermot and Caroline (Ian’s daughter) and then visit the Registry Office and the Reception venue in our capacity as ‘official wedding photographers’. The Registry Office was ghastly…so was the woman who met us – Hey! it’s their special day, try a be a little more …
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Well, this is becoming a regular weekly occurrence! Got up this morning to find that alarms weren’t sounding again on my diary. It was all OK last night. Here we go again… – Hard Reset– Restore an old backup– Delete all the PIM data from the restored data– Delete all the diary-related stuff in the …
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Bugger! Got up this morning to find that the alarms aren’t sounding again on my XDA. Here we go again! Update 4pm. Restored a backup from a few days ago – deleted all the PIM data using SKTools – renamed device – resynced with desktop. All is working fine now but there is high count …
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Lee and Bertie joined us for a few months whilst their caravan park is closed 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 …
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So, having spent a good two hours yesterday reinstalling everything, I get up this morning to find that the alarm function isn’t working AGAIN. I’m positive it was functioning properly last night. OK, OK, this now requires some serious thought! In between all the other work I’ve got to get through today, I’m going to …
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When it’s working it’s a fantastic piece of kit..but when it starts to go wrong – it’s a nightmare! Over the past few weeks, the alarm function has been very unreliable – sometimes working, sometimes not. See blog HERE Even using Bruce Jackson’s ‘pmclean’ tool (which initially solved the problem) didn’t seem to work its …
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Lee and Bertie returned home today. We’ll be seeing them for an extended stay in mid-January 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 …
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It looks as if I may have solved the problem with my XDA. In truth, I’m not sure what I did to fix it though… 🙂 I rolled back to an earlier version of ‘PhoneAlarm’ (although I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the problem). I then restored an old data backup after hard resetting the device …
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Oooo-errr! My XDA has stopped popping up reminders. It’s been playing up for a few days now. After the first hard reset it seemed OK and then today, it reverted back to its bad behaviour. If that’s not enough, the alarm function has stopped working too! I’ve hard reset the device three or four times …
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We drove to Leicester this evening to see and hear David in concert (in a very nice building owned by Leicester University). He is the Chairman of the ‘Cecilian Singers’, a small group of very professional ‘Sally Army’ choristers. We think there about 100 or so people there in total. It was a great mix …
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So, the back-up that I started last Thursday using Mozy has completed. No glitches and considering there’s quite a few files ‘up there’, the ‘test’ restore process worked quickly and effectively! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love …
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An excellent meal and a chance to catch-up as I haven’t seen Mags for quite a while! 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 …
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  I started to backup all my Client data to Mozy today. It’s obviously going to be a BIG job! It’s around 13 Gigabytes of data and we only have a sloooooow broadband connection here (1 Meg). I reckon between four and seven days running 24 hours a day… Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite …
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Although I’ve been quite busy with work, I’ve managed to thoroughly test out Mozy and install AVG’s latest Security Suite on all the PCs Mozy is an online back-up service that gives anyone 2Gb of online storage for free. That’s not enough for my needs so I chose the MobyPlus option that offers an eye-watering …
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We’re taking it easy today. Unusually for Ann (VERY unusually), she was unwell during the night. We can’t determine whether it’s a bug or something she ate yesterday. We’ve mostly eaten the same things and I’m unaffected – strange! Inside, we finished the Christmas cards today – almost 200 of them! Phew! Outside, the weather …
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We had a short lay-in and after breakfast, we took a walk west and took in the sites. We visited the ‘Museum of Iron’ and ‘Enginuity’ (geddit?) which was a museum designed for kids (and us!) to experience science through hands-on games and exhibits such as controlling dams and building earthquake-proof constructions etc. Finished off …
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A good run in the car. We used the M6 Toll Road and it only took around and hour-and-a-half to get to Telford. An overcast day, with rain on-and-off. We spent most of the day shopping, getting the final lot of Christmas pressies in the Telford shopping centre. We’ve still got a few to get, …
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We spent the weekend at Lee and Bertie’s including taking a trip to ‘our favourite town’ on Saturday – Holt. We managed to pick up a few Christmas pressys whilst we were there. A lie-in on Sunday (well, relatively, up at 6.30!). A hearty breakfast of bacon, egg and sausage and then off to North …
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Visited Jo and Janet’s together with Chris and Pete for a very nice lunch. A full roast with chicken, pork and every conceivable vegetable possible! This was followed by Strawberry and Apple Crumble and Apricot Tart. Cheese and bickies and then more wine and coffee. We ate too much. We drank too much. We put …
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Added Flickr link to my web-site today! 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 …
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An early start this morning..! …clear up from last night’s ‘Curry Night’! Then, off to The Old Croydonian’s Association AGM via Mum’s. The AGM finished about 2pm, then it was back to Mum’s and then out for a meal with my Brother Neil, his wife Debbie and the kids, Alfie and Frankie at around 6pm …
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I’m uploading this Blog to see if the graphics problem is fixed. If a graphic appears above this text, then it’s all working fine 🙂 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 …
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We spent most of the afternoon in the garden getting it prepared for the Winter. It took two trips to the local dump to get rid of the waste..and we’ve still got some left over – enough for a couple of dustbins full! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my …
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Went to Rushton Hall with our friends David and Val for our normal ‘four-weekly’ eat-out. What a beautiful place! It used to owned by the RNIB; now it’s a hotel and a VERY classy restaurant. The quality of the food was excellent, as was the service – but it WAS expensive. Nearly 200 quid for …
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We went to see the Rick and Jon and partly refurbished Derngate Theatre in Northampton. We learned that this is likely to be Rick’s last season of touring. As usual, Rick was excellent – a truly gifted paino player and as jovial as ever! Not really sure about Jon. ‘Yes’ was never my favourite band …
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