Friday, March 13, 2009

BT's Important Messages

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A couple of days ago I got a letter from BT marked 'Important documents inside - Not a circular.' "Must be a bill" I thoug...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Aaagh! Spam!

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Just 27 minutes into 2009 I got sent my first spam e-mail of the year - from someone signing herself as Beverly and who suggested I go to he...
Friday, November 14, 2008

NPower doesn't listen!

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(Addresses and names have been changed to protect NPower's victims) When I moved in April 2008 I kept the existing electricity supply - ...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The last sound

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Is the world going to end with a bang - or with a whimper? What about that bit in Revelations - The last trump? The one thing we can ...
Monday, October 13, 2008

I'm sick of 'Doom and Gloom'

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If you listen to the media it's all bad news. The stock market is dropping, the banks are failing, we all need to take swimming lessons ...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

BT Anywhere Broadband?

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A catalogue of delivery failures. Since I moved house to an area without cable broadband I've been using Virgin Media 'Up to 8 MB...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

On My Cat

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OK - I admit it. The picture is a fake. The anvil is made of papier mache. Now if I just wait here - maybe... Now I know you guys are moving...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

"Internet Explorer has stopped working" - again!

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A while ago I was getting this message "Internet Explorer has stopped working" whenever I used Internet Explorer. It often happene...
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Sunday, July 06, 2008

My war against the rabbits

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This morning at 5:00am I was out in the garden, dressed only in a bathrobe, wielding a large stick and for half an hour I chased a rabbit w...
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Saturday, December 01, 2007

The great plastic bag con.

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Just recently the Prime Minister was in the news talking about introducing legislation to reduce single use plastic bags ( http://news.bbc.c...
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Friday, November 30, 2007

Goji Berries - I'm convinced

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Article updated 2017 For the last twelve years my family has been eating dried Goji berries as a regular part of our diet after reading...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Brain teaser

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It was Jane's birthday and John heard her say - "I'm twenty-eight today. Last year I was twenty-nine and in two years I'll ...
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Friday, February 16, 2007

Big brother wants to watch you (even more) - UK Road Tax Scheme

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The UK government has plans to replace the current road tax and petrol duty with a pay as you go road use charge. (If any US readers are abo...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Don't print this!

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I'm always complaining to students about the amount of paper they waste. By the time they print work a few times, use worksheets, exam p...
Friday, December 08, 2006

BSE/nvCJD in the news - Friday 8th Dec 2006

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nvCJD (variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease) has raised it's ugly head again. Apparently it's been discovered that it can be passed on ...