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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? [...]

[tags]Alton Towers, adrenalin, coke[/tags]
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 [...]

I never went through this myself as I had grand plans to join the RAF at 16 as an apprentice electronics technician. I was amply qualified, I sailed through their tests but (as I later found out from a neighbour) I was only offered a job as a truck driver so that they could fulfil [...]

[tags]Mozy, TechCrunch, EMC Corp, Flickr[/tags]
My current favourite automatic online backup company, Mozy, is about to be sold - or so say the TechCrunch guys. I say good for them and I love it when the little guys win out.
However, the main reason for bringing them up again was that I came across this chart at [...]

Or so said the ten or so year old lad when he overheard me talking to my children recently.
Let me take a step backwards - as a family we recently visited the Science Museum in London and I simply love going there. One of my earliest memories and pictures is of my grandfather holding me [...]

Recently I posted a comment to a blog. I left a way for the blog owner to be able to contact me. They did that and took me to task over my comment. I replied and clarified and all is now happy and peaceful again twixt they and me.
The issue here, I guess, was my [...]

Once, a long time ago, I was told by a well-meaning person that “everybody has a hero,” which was then followed up with the reasonable question of “who is yours?”
Well, I confess I’ve never had a hero.
I’ve never been into rock star adulation.
There’s nobody I can think of whose life or achievements I want to [...]

I love helping people. I especially love helping people with technology problems - even those that have nothing (mostly) to do with IT. Even down to editing a friend’s wedding video.
I’m convinced I’m here on this earth to help. I also love to help people for free and 99.9 times out of 100 will refuse [...]

[tags]Sony, PS3, Wii, Xbox, Rumour[/tags]
I have an Xbox 360. My teenager has a PS2 and various handheld gaming platforms from down the ages. I bought the Xbox because it was going cheap at the time - a young lad wanted to exchange it for a parrot! Yes that’s right a parrot but who was I [...]

[tags]safe, children, internet, watchers, monitor, education, e-learning[/tags]
I’ve just read this article and it touches on a favourite subject of mine.
I’ve long been an advocate of keeping children safe but not to the detriment of them having good, clean, safe fun. In a previous job my role was to ensure all the schools in my local [...]