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A great birthday weekend

25. February 2007

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On friday I turned 35 and it was definitely the best birthday I’ve had for a while. I drove down to London on Thursday in my* new car and it was the first time I’ve gone more than a few miles in it. It’s a 6 yr old Mitsubishi Shogun ‘Elegance’ with all the toys and [...]

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UK PHP Conference 2007

24. February 2007

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Yesterday I attended the UK PHP Conference 2007 which was organised by the guys at PHP London; it was held Keyworth Centre a part of South Bank University which is near Elephant and Castle tube. The first talk was on mashups by Cal Evans which was an interesting account of how he went about creating a [...]

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Abbey business banking review

20. February 2007

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I’ll keep this brief as I don’t want to spend any more time on Abbey than I need to but if you are considering switching to them because of their free business banking service my recommendation is that you: DO NOT USE ABBEY BUSINESS BANKING SERVICES it’s like a death by paper-cuts; many small and irritating things [...]

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A petition worth signing

14. February 2007

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If you live in the UK then unless you’ve been sat in a hole for the past few weeks you’ll have been sent, umpteen times, a link to sign up to a petition telling The Government to stop being silly about tracking our cars blah, blah, blah. I have not bothered signing because IMO it’s such [...]

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Daddy IT’S SNOWING!

8. February 2007

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This morning at 7AM the two 4 years olds that we share a house with came in to tell us that it had BEEN SNOWING and according to them this was very much A Good Thing. Also, apparently, it was in my daddy job description to make a snowman for them RIGHT AWAY. Knowing that [...]

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My first impressions of Windows Vista

5. February 2007

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My action pack update came in a few weeks back with the Vista upgrade disks and today I had a spare few mins so figured I’d do a practice upgrade*. So I copy one of the Win XP testing VMWare virtual machines boot it up and over lunch install Putty, Photoshop CS2, Fireworks, my PHP [...]

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I hate Macs

5. February 2007

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I don’t, actually, but I have been mainly a PC user since the days of MS Dos and whilst I use Linux daily and own an old iMac (for testing, about to upgrade it to a Mac-mini), if asked I would definitely describe myself as a Windows user. With this mind I found this recent article [...]

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