We met up at Georgetown in Stratford-upon-Avon. I’d been round at Mags’ helping her set-up her new laptop in readiness for her six-weeks of work in India. I’d not heard of the restaurant before and the decision to go there was based on Ian discovering it was 3 meals for the price of two! It’s …
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Category:Technology
Jeff Wayne’s: War of the World’s Tour 2009
Lucky us, we were able to get tickets for Jeff Wayne’s 2009 War of the Worlds Tour. We’re seeing it at the O2 Arena in London! There’s a good animation/video doing the rounds that’s worth a watch. It later appeared on YouTube. To coincide with this Tour, ‘The Spirit of Man’ single and video were …
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Test Blog – Picasa plug-in
This is a test blog using the ‘Picasa plug-in’ of Windows Live-Writer and it seems to work just fine! The plug-in allows you to grab an image from your Picasa Web-Albums and add it to your blog. There are lots of adjustments such whether it links to a larger version (via Picasa or just to …
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Test Blog
Repeat after me “I must not p*** about with the template for my blog!” Having tried to add an icon for easily adding social-bookmarking sites, I completely screwed up the blog-layout — it took me the rest of the afternoon and some of the evening to put everything right!!! Arghhhh! Steve PalmerI got into blogging …
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The new iPhone
A short review of the new 3G iPhone by Jason Bradbury from The Gadget Show 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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Trip to Ireland!
No, not that Ireland! This was a village just south of Bedford. Denise and I met up for lunch there. It was a scorching hot day so we sat outside. Great food – Denise had mussels and I had the Burger. Service was excellent although at the end, their machine was rejecting all credit-cards! Luckily …
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Trojan! + Valentine’s Day
I’m not 100% sure how I acquired it but I seem to now be home to the very popular ‘Vundo’ Trojan. A nasty piece of work that creates random-named dll files and hooks into your Browser. The result? Lots of hard disk activity, random adverts appearing for no reason and a very sluggish PC. After …
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High Chaparral Party/Latest tech Kit/Young Deer
HIGH CHAPARRAL PARTYToday’s the day of our party! Pity our costumes didn’t turn up in the post though. Tom to the rescue with a spare hat for me!!! Everyone else dressed for the part. Paul was a very convincing Mexican and Tom on his inflatable horse made a welcome return!!! See a larger of the …
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Nabucco/Party I/Party II
NabuccoI went into town to pick up my watch – Nabucco – it looks like they can’t mend it which seems ridiculous! I’m going to write to Raymond Weil to see if they can sort things out. Seems crazy that because they can’t fix the strap, the watch is useless. Party and Party We’re off …
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A patter of tiny ink-tanks!/Meal with David and Val
I managed to purchase a Canon Pixma 5200 from Amazon for less that 40 quid! OK it’s a discontinued model, but its print quality and speed is excellent! Perfect for Ann’s office downstairs. This means that she’ll be able to print stuff without having to go upstairs to retrieve the document (that’s where the other …
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Route(r) 66
Well it’s Router 546(i) v6 actually, but that wouldn’t have worked as a headline would it? 🙂 My ISP Demon wrote to me and offered to reduce my internet bill by £2 a month – and offered me a new router for just over £20. It arrived today and after a small problem with the …
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Web-site check/Cinema with Jo and Janet
Popped over to see Julie who’s designing a web-site for a friend. A few tweaks here and there and it should be OK in a few days. We picked up Jo and Janet to see the new Jodie Foster Film ‘The Brave One’. It was a really good film. A little like the ‘Death Wish’ …
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Serious PC problem
Well, I certainly seem to be having my fair share of PC problems just lately! This is an unusual one. I realised last Friday that I couldn’t get access to the Windows Update page. Perhaps more importantly one of my web-menu design programs – AllWebMenusPro by Likno – just wouldn’t load or save any files! …
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Web-Site completed/Bourne Ultimatum
We saw the ‘Bourne Ultimatum’ at the local Odeon tonight. A frantically fast-paced action movie and a worthy end to the trilogy! I finished off MS’s web-site today at 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 …
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Toasting Blog
We finally got aorund to replacing the toaster! We found a reaaly good one from John Lewis that does four slices at a time. Just right for our home-made bread. Helped Julie make some changes to her freiends web-site using DreamWeaver. Helped Phil P get his pop3 emails set-up in google-mail. Steve PalmerI got into …
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London Blog
Spent the day in London today. Left home around 8am for my first meeting but Stuart McL cancelled. Arrived at the Novotel, Waterloo around 11am, so I guess that wasn’t a bad journey. Stuart cancelling left me time to do a bit of work and try out the new laptop wirelessly (again!). This time there …
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Impromptu Meal Out…
This was nice! Ann decided that a visit to Mazza’s (our fave Indian) restaurant was in order. So, we picked up Jo and treated her. The place was packed as normal..and the food was excellent..as normal! 🙂 (They’ve recently switched over the hand-held PCs for taking the orders). Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late …
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Computer Trouble… (Dell)
If there’s a case for leaving your PC switched on all the time – this is it!!! Powered-up this morning to find that the Dell PC was crashing when trying to load ‘explorer.exe’ – probably the most important file under XP. It even does it in safe-mode!!! To compound things, system restore doesn’t seem to …
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Bev for lunch
Spent most of the morning processing the pics from yesterday’s wedding. Popped over to Tom and Julie’s to try to sort out their DreamWeaver problem. No luck, but I have an idea for next time! Bev popped down to join us for lunch. It was good to see her! Nice phone Bev!!! 👍 Roast lamb …
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The Cable Guy/Karen’s Birthday Meal
Reconnected the external aerial to the HiFi today (because the aerial guy had connected the down-cable to the socket near the TV rather than the original circuit behind the glass cabinet). It meant running a length of co-ax along the outside back wall to save lifting the carpet up to conceal it. It took longer …
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Bye-Bye Toshiba CRT TV…
For us, (well, me actually!), this is a sad moment. The TV rental company (Cottons of Peterborough) picked up the Pioneer 36″ TV today. This is to make way for our shiny new 42″ plasma Panasonic that’s coming tomorrow. I guess it’s sad, because I’ve been with the TV rental company for as long as …
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Super Shopping Day in Newcastle
Nicki, Ann and I took the train to Newcastle to do some serious shopping. As it turned out, it was more productive that we thought. With Nicki’s help, Ann managed to pick up a number of dresses – the sort she had been looking for for ages! However, the biggest bargain of the day was …
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Super TV
After looking at the TVs in John Lewis last weekend, we plan to replace ours sometime soon. I also took some time out to look at Karen and Paul’s new HD TV. Excellent stuff – a Sony Bravia 40″. Fantastic picture quality! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first …
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Productive Saturday!
Another glorious weekend, weather-wise… Phew! Drove over to Peterborough to get my hair cut. Came back. We then took Bon-Bon to the pussy parlour (first time the two cats have been apart) for a bath, dry and brush. Drove back to Peterborough. Stopped off at Jane and Mick’s for a quick coffee. We then went …
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Meal with David and Val
We met up with David and Val and had a great meal at the Montagu Arms in Barnwell, near Oundle. I swear their ‘Monty Pie’ is getting bigger!!! We also gave them a small pressy by way of a thank-you for alerting us to the fact that we might be paying too much Council Tax. …
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MyBook x2/Out with Val and David
Installed a couple of ‘MyBook’ external hard drives on the network today. Each has a capacity of 500Gb – so that should solve my storage needs. They replaced the Maxtor drives (250Gb and 320Gb) externals which I’ve had for years! I bought them from ebuyer.com at 234 plus VAT (a good price!!!) The old …
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XDA problems – again (again!) (again) (again) (again)
Not again! Alarms stopped working tonight – but they WERE OK this morning. Hard ResetRestore yesterday’s full backup (excluding the PIM data)Cleared out ‘Notification Queue’Kept the device name the sameResynced with the desktop All working now..! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into …
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We’re going green(ish)/Gill and Chris for Dinner
We changed most of the light bulbs around the house to low-energy ones today! We went to Gill and Chris’s in Northampton for Dinner tonight. An excellent meal! 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 …
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XDA is OK now (probably)
OK – All the essential applications have been installed including an upgrade to Agenda Fusion. It all seems to be working fine (touch wood!) After various tests, I’m convinced everything is now working. One of the frustrations associated with the recent ‘alarms-not-sounding’ was the fact that I couldn’t use a working backup file and restore …
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XDA alarm problem solved (for good?)/Nicki staying over/Medication Review
Bugger! Looks like my XDA is playing up again – the alarms aren’t sounding. This time though I’ve got it sussed… – Sync all diary data with Outlook– Hard reset the XDA – Restore last known good back up (but not the PIM data) – Sync with Outlook – Run Bruce Jackson’s EXCELLENT utility ‘PMClean’ …
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