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Movie Plot Threat

Firstly apologies for my recent silence - but my household has not been well this past month or so. I have a teen doing his As with glandular fever and then I got the flu big time … but I’m back to my sporadic postings.
For the last three years Bruce Schneier has run a movie […]

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Video Games = Violent Kids… Not!

Just finished watching a very interesting video clip over at kotaku.com. Link to it is here.
The basic premise is that contrary to popular opinion video games do not increase the risk of your child becoming violent or going on one of the well publicised real life responses. In fact, the research actually points to the […]

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Problems with Firefox 2.0.0.12?

Am I alone in seeing issues with this update?
There’s nothing concrete I can say except that my surfing can freeze for no particular reason and only one thing restores normal surfing - that is shutting down Firefox and re-opening it. Because I typically have four or more tabs open I’ve taken to crashing out so […]

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Pandora Lives Again

I am a happy boy tonight, well 4.33 am as I type this.
As most folks probably know by now Pandora went silent for UK listeners a few days back. I won’t bore you with the details of the whys as plenty of others have already done so. Anyway, after trying upwards of a dozen or […]

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I’ve Got Troubles

Well not really, but my life or those near and dear to me do.
This is a quick 2007 in review thingy.
Close family member buried her husband at the start of the year due to rapid onset cancer.  At the end of the year we were burying her new partner due to an industrial workplace accident.
Shift […]

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£50 Million Giveaway

No, not me. But I am pleased to say that Sustrans has won the people’s vote and they, of the 4 finalists, have been given teh £50 Million from the lottery fund.
In their own words:
Sustrans Connect2 Wins The Peoples £50 Million!
£50 million won and we couldn’t have done it without you!
This is fantastic news, […]

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Ladies & Gentlemen, Your Votes Please

OK - further to my previous post about The People’s 50 Million, the voting has now opened and I’ve placed mine for the Sustrans Project.
They had a bit of a hiccup as their captcha wasn’t working, but that has been fixed. Do be warned though, the registration captcha is easy to read in comparison to […]

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Top xx Lists

Whilst I wouldn’t say the list ‘Best 101 List‘ is conclusive, it is certainly useful and even amusing in places. However the vast majority of them are aimed at blog writers so naturally I will be spending some time perusing them.
I simply offer them to you. Enjoy.
Tags: 101 lists, blogs, blogging

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£50 Million Into 4 Doesn’t Go

I’ve been quiet for a while - not because I have nothing to say but because life is busy. However, I feel that this deserves a mention to the point where it’s dragged me out of hiding.
So why won’t £50 Million UK go into 4, or more accurately why won’t 4 go into £50 Million? […]

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Adrenalin Overload

As part of our visit as many Uni’s as possible to narrow down the choices, the eldest and I have just returned from an 8 day road trip. Part of it involved going to Alton Towers and it was the best day ever.
Weather man said rain (it didn’t), school kids were mostly locked away […]