2017 was a brilliant running year for me. The main goal was to participate in the Birmingham Marathon but there were various other events throughout the year which contributed to it being such a good year. The most memorable were three events where I was able to set personal bests over three different distances. (links
Run For Your Life – A Magazine About Everyday Runners
Kickstarter as a concept I think is generally a good thing. Having a great idea but no clue if it’s financially viable must be so common. Kickstarter fixes that problem by allowing people to put their plans out and there and if there is interest then you get funding upfront. That doesn’t mean, plenty of
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DNS Server Can’t Resolve Against Itself
What an exciting, eye catching headline! We took a call from a potentially new customer who were unhappy with their current support provider. I went to take a look at the system and the main technical issues they were describing all seemed to be DNS related. There were immediately several things that jumped out to
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Trend Micro – Can’t Uninstall AVG
What’s this? A technical post? Quick and easy one. I was trying to install the Trend Micro Worry Free Business Advanced client on a PC and I got the following message Unable to Remove Incompatible Software Installation unsuccessful. The installer could not uninstall AVG 2012 x64 automatically Manually uninstall this product and retry. Now a
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Tile Mate
I’m always forgetting where I’ve put things Keys, phone and wallet are the usual suspects but I’ll frequently pick something up, then put it down and then have no idea where it’s gone. So when I first came across Tile Mate it seemed to have been made just for me! Tile Mate is a little
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Birmingham Marathon 2017
As mentioned previously…running is a thing now. Back in 2016 I ran the London Marathon. I got in by pure luck through the ballot, had an amazing time and thought that would be my one and only marathon. But I’ve ended up running a lot more since then (and actually enjoying it) so when I
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Testing, Testing (2017 version..)
Is this thing on? The last thing I wrote about was my 10 year “Blogiversary” After writing a few paragraphs marvelling at myself for writing for so long I then proceeded to not write anything for a whole year Yay me! So it is literally a year…today is the 11th anniversary of my first blog
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10 Year Blogiversary
Today marks 10 years of this blog! This is post number 151 My output has lowered in recent times, for a variety of reasons but it’s something I still enjoy doing, however often that may be. When I first started the whole main idea was just for myself. A personal knowledgebase if you will, as
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Command Prompt and the Clipboard
Filed under “I didn’t know you could do that”. Something I discovered recently I thought it was one of those things I’d just missed over the years but after a conversation I had in the office I thought it might be worth sharing here too. Normally when working with the command prompt if you want
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Hello Kindle Voyage
Way back at the beginning of 2011 I agonised over the decision to purchase a Kindle I eventually did, loved it and have used it pretty much daily ever since. I picked up my second Kindle after my first was stolen and the post I wrote at the time looked at the different models available
