My in-laws have accessed the Internet via a dial-up modem for as long as I’ve known them (which is about seven years.) For the whole of that time I’ve been gently suggesting that they really should think about broadband but they always said that they were happy with what they had, even if it did
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Upping Sticks
I mentioned recently I’d been planning some changes around here I wanted to do this on the two year blog-anniversary as it seemed a cool thing to do but it hasn’t worked out that way so I’m doing it today (it’s just a coincidence it’s Halloween) I’m moving my blog and hosting it myself When
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Happy Blog Day To Me
Where has the last year gone? Today marks two years of writing my blog (and David Schrag – happy blog day to you as well!) It’s been an interesting 12 months for a ton of reasons. I’m not really into those “last years highlights” posts as you’ll all grown ups…you can go through my archives
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Quiet Before The Storm?
It’s been a couple of months since I blogged about how I’d not posted all that much recently. It’s happened again. After a brief flurry I realised today I haven’t posted anything for two weeks I’ve no idea where the last two weeks have gone to be honest and I didn’t realise it had been
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The National Computer Museum at Bletchley Park
I posted a little while back about the good news Bletchley Park received and said that I’d like to visit and take a look around the National Computer Museum Well as a bit of a weird coincidence I’d completely forgotten that we’d arranged a visit to Milton Keynes on the Saturday immediately after the post
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The power of the Internet hype
While not giving you the power of the stats a self hosted blog would afford, the stats that WordPress.com provide are generally good enough for me I get to know which posts are more popular than others and see how site visitors come across my page The page views numbers also help give me an
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Bletchley Park given a boost
Just saw this on this BBC news site Bletchley gets £50,000 donation The article is pretty comprehensive so I won’t reproduce too much of it here I’m planning on making a trip to check out the National Museum of Computing soon so was pleased to hear this news today The donations made by IBM and
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Every had one of those days?
It’s said a picture says more than a thousand words and I thought this picture says an awful lot about why the blog has been so quiet lately I have a select few blogs that I keep up with religiously but recently the others have been left for when I have time to go back
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Useful Outlook Tools
One the great things I love about reading blogs is the things you stumble across Dave Overton had a blog post today about software we rely on What software could you not live without – tell Windows Vista Magazine? – David Overton’s Blog Other than the Microsoft stuff he mentioned a program called EZDetach I
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BT Investing In Fibre
Two words on this one WOO HOO! Here’s the story on the BBC site There had been rumblings a while back about BT not wanting to invest in the infrastructure and get fibre into the “last mile” While this isn’t going to happen overnight (2012 from what I can see) it’s a step in the