I went to use my home phone this afternoon and found a nice womans voice telling me that my line was barred. Apparently Talk Talk needed me to pay them money before I could use my phone again. I was a little confused as I have a direct debit setup with them and so in [...]

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A few days ago someone pointed me at some amazing pictures of comet McNaught that (I thought) was only visible in the southern hemisphere. As I was travelling to Sydney yesterday I was primed to look for it. As the dawn started to show the comet appeared - a truly amazing sight. It wasn’t as [...]

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A short while ago I was having lunch with someone who has a Myth TV setup when they told me that Myth had commercial skipping abilities. I’d wondered on and off about creating a setup here, though as I have a Sky+ box it always seemed a bit excessive. However, in a moment of weakness [...]

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One of the features that all modern OS’s require these days is that they update themselves on a regular basis. Ubuntu is no different and normally the process is as smooth as smooth can be. Occasionally though it introduces a problem - such as the one I now experience on an irregular basis when Firefox [...]

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Following Sam Rubys instructions I’ve OpenID enabled this blog. OpenID is an interesting set of technologies and something I hope to do more with in the future. The timing of Sams instructions was perfect.

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During the high winds in December a couple of fence panels in my garden blew over and started flailing about as if alive. By the time the winds had abated the panels were totally broken and the fence posts were beyond repair. Needing to get the panels replaced I tried to contact the company I [...]

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No, not me!
http://digg.com/tech_news/Trouble_In_Venice_Developer_Leaves_Highly_Anticipated_IPTV_Project

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This year I spent New Year at Tobys place. It was a nice, quiet evening and it was good to see them again. The following night Andrew had his regular “Recovery” party on the 1st Jan and that was also good. It was good to catch up with more people I’d not seen and as [...]

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