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Virgin Tivo

February 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Technology

I found out about two new things from Virgin Media today.  The first was by accident: a lot of people at work are having trouble connecting their company laptops through our encrypted VPN if they have Virgin broadband and I was looking for possible reasons for this.  While doing this I noticed that their XL […]

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New toy time

February 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on New toy time · Technology

My printer has been playing up a lot lately.  Lots of error messages about the ink system failing, and it would also lock up a lot when scanning. I did a bit of research on the net and found that it was most likely a hardware fault that could easily be fixed with a couple […]

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For the hairy man in your life

November 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life

I saw this on Amazon the other day – the Mangroomer Do-It-Yourself Electric Back Hair Shaver and thought it was a joke at first, but on reflection it makes sense. I’m not a particularly hairy bloke, but I have heard women complain a lot about hairy backs, so I guess that if you are a […]

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Flip UltraHD 8GB

November 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Technology

Well I have finished playing with the new Flip UltraHD which arrived from Amazon yesterday.  For anybody interested, the full specs of all the different models are here. I was a bit frustrated that it didn’t arrive on Saturday so I could try it out at the CCAR party and a bit miffed that when […]

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Flipping heck

November 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Technology

My Flip arrived today – the new 8GB HD model, and very nice it is too.  It is willfully bereft of features as it is based on the design concept of just doing one thing, doing it well and making it easy for you to make it do that thing.  I had read good things […]

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Temptation

September 3rd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Technology

It has been a long time since I have been sorely tempted by a new gadget, which is a bit of a relief for the wallet but makes life more boring.  I used to be able to spend hours browsing Comet or PC World wanting every other thing in there but I have sort of […]

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The rainbow kettle

August 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life

I had a bit of a result with the Amazon Vine programme this month.   When I got the list of products to choose from, there was a kettle on there.  I had recently noticed that our kettle was dribbling a bit, which annoyed me somewhat, but not enough to go out and get a new […]

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The solution to gun crime?

August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology

This is supposed to be art – a sculpture that can turn into a gun, which would appear to owe a lot of inspiration to a certain  James Bond film – but it could be the answer to gun crime.  Just tweak the US constitution so that the right to bear arms means you can […]

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A new toy

August 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology

With all the shelf-removal I have been doing lately it was a bad time to discover that my little electric screwdriver was totally kaput.  Sure, the big one is fine for taking the big screws out of the wall, but a bit awkward when tackling the screws holding shelves onto the supports, especially on shelves […]

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Alarming inability

June 9th, 2010 · Comments Off on Alarming inability · Life

I have a licence to drive cars.  It will also allow me to drive pretty large vans and minibuses.  I can operate computers with some confidence and figure out the various combinations of settings and buttons to do all sorts of things on hi-fi separates.  So why do I have some sort of dyspraxia when […]

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