Yearly Archives: 2008

Do NOT get into a car with this young woman

A story on the local news aperture for our local paper caught my eye this morning. Leanne Le Feuvre has, in the past 3 weeks, been involved in two serious car accidents and has walked away from both… I’m pretty … Continue reading

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Colour OCD

Red Light Day = hitting all the Red lights on the way into work = bad day Red Skittle Combo = 2 Red One Yellow Out of packet = good day Network Cables = Orange and Yellow for computers, Blue … Continue reading

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Tidying Up IM

There was an interesting post on Lifehacker yesterday outlining the steps that can be taken to migrate away from an old email address. It was recommended that you use your own hosted domain to ensure that future mail can be … Continue reading

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Community Service

I don’t often post about my Honorary Police work, partially because data protection is a scary mama and she’ll kick my ass and partially because very little of it is of interest to those who are not involved in the … Continue reading

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I went to a marvellous party

And for those with Flickr Privileges* the photos can be found on my photo stream. Thanks to Dan, Beav, Ani and Derek for a cracking evening! *If you don’t then get a Flickr account and I’ll add you if you … Continue reading

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The joys of the silver screen

It’s been an age since I did a meme thingy but I stole this from the Facebook profile of Matt “SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films … Continue reading

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And we’re online

Finally. We’ve been given use of a shared, ADSL connection here at the flat – no great shakes but at least good enough for email and web browsing. Of course they couldn’t remember the WEP key but thankfully … it … Continue reading

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Who are you?

An interesting point raised by Robert Llewellyn in one of his recent Llewtube vids what should we brits refer to ourselves as? This already difficult question is complicated even further by geographical sub divisions. For example, most Jersey Beans would … Continue reading

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Seeing the Llight

or rather hearing The Llight which doesn’t have quite the same ring as a headline. And what is The Llight? They’re a band, specifically a band in which my cousin Paddy plays bass, sings a bit and no doubt handles … Continue reading

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Seam Carving to resize images

Seam Carving is an image resizing technique that Jeremy originally pointed out to me … whilst on the phone … walking … through the rain … to the pub … funny what you remember eh? When J and I discussed … Continue reading

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