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Entries from February 29th, 2008

Fresh Blood

February 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Fresh Blood · Politics

The Broadfield branch of the Labour party had its AGM tonight.  I stood down as Chair – I think two years (or is it three?) is long enough, and now I can concentrate more on  Horsham.  That is the good news. The even better news is that one of our newer, younger members has been […]

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Daleks Invade Worthing

February 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Life

Now that’s what I call a decent headline for a local paper!  Unfortunately its a little over-stated: for a start the the use of a plural is unwarranted as there was only one Dalek.

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Labour win something in Horsham!

February 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life

A small victory, but something to build on. We went along to quiz night at the Broadbridge Heath village hall and came equal first.

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I remember when this was all fields…

February 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Technology

I do not normally bother to read computer magazines. Take away all the adverts and the reviews of things I am not interested in and not a lot remains. But I used to read them in the 80s and this week I bought the Personal Computer World 30-year anniversary edition for a bit of a […]

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Robbed

February 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Robbed · Work

The IT department fielded a team at the  company quiz night tonight, and was robbed!  Actually we only managed to scrape together two thirds of a team so we had given everybody else a bit of a head start anyway.

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Staying put

February 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments · Work

Well I am not moving to France.  There was a slight possibility of an opportunity at work that came totally out of the blue and I pursued it, but ultimately it came to nothing.

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Begrudging praise for Virgin Media

February 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Begrudging praise for Virgin Media · Technology

If it was not good that Virgin Media’s e-mail telling me how they were going to increase my bandwidth for free came after several days of no e-mail, it was even worse that a day or two later we had no connection at all.

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Alternative medicine success story?

February 20th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Technology

According to this story: (which refers to this earlier story) There is growing evidence that acupuncture can greatly increase a woman’s chance of becoming pregnant I am more than a bit sceptical about claims for medical treatment based on theories like “the body’s major organs use energy pathways to communicate and that malaise occurs whenever […]

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Mobile mania

February 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Technology

I was very surprised today when I got to work and realised I had left my mobile phone at home and then found myself feeling that something was missing all day.  The truth is that I use it like a sort of pocket watch more than I ever use it as a phone, which is […]

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No show

February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics

I can’t believe that I forgot about the Broadfield Forum tonight.  I was all set to go, I even mentioned it to a few work colleagues who I know live in Broadfield, and then just forgot it was on.

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