We drove down to the south coast today to meet-up with Sharon and Ian – and to make a long(ish) weekend of it. We’re home Sunday afternoon and we’re going to drop-in and see Mum on the way back. The weather steadily improved on the way down and we arrived at The World’s End pub …
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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 – The Sequel
I’ve been like a man possessed here today. I’ve finished writing all the business cards (around 150), AND, I’ve begun to write the personal ones too (I found some non-business designs in the loft from last year). The only thing that’s stopped me being a real sad-s**, and finishing those off as well, is that …
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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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RIP: Norman Wisdom
Star of stage and screen, the comedy legend that is Sir Norman Wisdom, died today, aged 95. Famous for playing the underdog, and someone who made falling-over, an art-form, I remember him best for the 1953 film Trouble in Store, (which I think, earned him a BAFTA). In the film, he first uttered the line: …
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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!
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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Lunch in Peterborough
I met up with Alison W, an ex-business colleague from my days with Nokia. Just to make a change :), we planned to meet at John Lewis’s in Peterborough. The last time we got together was in January and just like then, JL was pretty busy in the store itself and in the restaurant. I …
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RIP: Tony Curtis
Ahh, that’s sad – Tony Curtis died today, at the fine age of 85. Although the media tended to show mostly photographs and movie-clips of him with Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, I mostly remember him in The Persuaders TV series, shown in the 70s, where he played millionaire playboy Danny Wilde. I …
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Rain, rain rain!!!
Will it ever stop raining here? Yuk!!!!!
Fat. Cat. Lap!
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr 2.17pm: Amazing! Bon-Bon, our no-lap cat, decided today, for the first time, to sit on my lap! She stayed there for almost 15 minutes!!! Cats ehh!
Test!
Yay!! It worked!!
Test again!
Testing ‘Ping’ cross-poster. This should appear in:Twitter, Facebook, and my Blog
Update: The OCA web-site
I’ve added a section to the OCA web-site that allows visitors to download our oldest members’ recollections of their time at the School and their life in general. The recollections previously featured in The OCA magazine and were the result of one-to-one interviews. They can now all be seen in one place for easy access.
Test: Cross Post to Facebook
If this shows up in Facebook, then the cross-posting plug-in has worked
Music: A haunting vocal by Nadia Ali
I’m not so sure about the video, but the vocal is one that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up the first time I heard it – ‘Is it Love?’ sung by Nadia Ali, who used to be part of the US Band, ‘iiO’. (I think it’s from the Album, ‘Poetica’).
Test III
If this works, it should also post to Facebook
Testing Testing
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’s back
Hippo Bathday!
It’s my birthday. As we’re away, I’m going to open my presents when we get back from Bury St Edmunds later. We were both up around 8, and started to get packed. We initially planned to go to Ely Cathedral and have a look round, but the weather was cold with heavy rain, so we …
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Tech Alert: The Eye-Fi Card
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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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
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
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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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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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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