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Found a reason to use Twitter…eventually!
I've held back from using Twitter for ages as I've never had a reason to want to use it. The thought of seeing banal messages of "I had beans on toast tonight" just didn't give me a burning desire to sign up. That changed though at the weekend… On Sunday, as previously mentioned, I was […]
The Gadget Show Live – 2009
We were up at The Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham today. What a great show! We were fortunate to be on the very front row, right in the middle, during the hour long session from the presenters. One of the best things seen there was the new Panasonic Viera Z1 Series plasma […]
Longing for an art-house cinema around Worcester
There are rarely films on at our local cinemas (Vue & Odeon) in Worcester that I actually want to see – maybe one or two a year that are worth a visit. That's not to say I don't like films – I love films and that's the problem. We make good use of our LoveFilm […]
Origins of "back-friend"
Sometimes you use words and phrases and don't think anything of them…until someone else asks what on earth you are talking about. An example of this is “back-friend”. My family have always used this, from my Dad's side I believe. I have heard my grandparents use it in the past and my Dad uses it. […]
Internet Explorer strikes again
Internet Explorer has a way of driving web developers up the wall. Every version has its own glut of bugs and quirks, some just irritating and some downright bizarre. It's one of those bizarre ones that I've been looking at over the last few days – specifically in Internet Explorer 7, the major browser of […]
Thankyou to ThinkMini !
It's been a busy weekend and it doesn't feel like 5 minutes since Friday evening. On Saturday the old Mini went to ThinkMini in Worcester to be checked over and have the oil changed. Dave at ThinkMini is a top guy – if you cut him in half he would have “Mini” running through the […]
Malvern Mini Show
I had a spur of the moment trip to the Mini show at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern today and what a great show it was. At least a couple of hundred Minis there (a few modern BMW-crafted imposters but mainly real Minis). The time spent on restoring, modifying and caring for these cars […]
What happened to those old projects?
A couple of weeks ago I was out on a lunchtime walk around the Business Park and bumped into someone I used to work with a few years ago at Severn Trent Systems (about 200m from where I work now). It seems that the project we both used to work on is still alive and […]
'To Do' lists, LAMP and finding time
I've known for a good while now that I need to make more time out of work hours to look at the things I don't get chance to do at work. This list gets longer and longer and the time to look at things on it rarely seems to materialise. I get bits of time […]