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I've been on the tsohost.co.uk Pro hosting package for a couple of years now at home.  I used to be with DomainCity for several years but after service got worse, email was down regularly and a general lack of features it was time to move.  I posted to the Web Host Chat forum asking for recommendations and Adam from tsohost.co.uk contacted me, advertising their services.  A couple of emails later I was a customer and have never loo

As part of my ongoing dabblings with Drupal, I wanted a couple of local installations to act as a test bed for various versions.  Now that I have a couple of live domains running Drupal in multi-site mode I really don't fancy breaking them by doing anything silly - this is where the local setup comes into play.

I've switched this site from Wordpress to Drupal for a couple of reasons.

I made a bit of an impulse/treat purchase today and yesterday.  Now I just need to frame them and decorate the dining room to set them off nicely.  They are a set of 4 Kunisada woodblock prints of courtesans over 4 seasons:-

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Summer

A while ago I wrote about an issue with CPU spiking in Internet Explorer 7, recently I encountered another instance of this that required a different fix.

Dragon's Den is always interesting to watch on TV but every so often there's a product on it that sparks your interest and makes you want to go out and buy it. Our first Dragon's Den purchase was a while ago now and was a Yakibox and the most recent one was a trueCall.

Since the Tesco online grocery delivery started, several years ago, we generally use them about once a month to buy certain bulky items so that we don't have to pick up as much when visiting the store.  Over the years though we have changed what we do order from them as, increasingly, their inability ro deliver good quality meat, fruit and vegetables gets more pronounced.

We've just got back from a nice 5 day break in London, seeing a few places never visited before, doing loads of walking and exploring and eating at places we don't get to eat at back home.

It's been an interesting year so far for our old 1988 Mini 'Designer' Mary Quant limited edition.   A month or so ago we were asked to submit some photos to the Mini Designer Register site (currently 'Mini of the month' at bottom of front-page and several photos on other pages) and then the webmistress of that site put us in touch with a journalist for MiniWorld who was doing an article on Mary Quant.  I took a batch of photos, sent them off and heard back the other day that a few had been used on the article which is now in the sh

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