Year: 2005

  • New connections

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    Back in Cardiff we’d been using NTL ever since cable TV appeared. We picked up phone and TV services from them, and later a broadband internet connection. They’re not a terrible company, and their services were good, but now we’ve moved we get to review the marketplace. So phone service went to BT, because you…

  • The stomach for it

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    I forgot to mention the other day, but since reducing work related stress and my blood pressure began to fall, my indigestion irks have also dropped off. I seem to be able to drink red wine again, something I haven’t been able to do for ages. Sunday lunches with beer are no longer painful. Relaaaaax.

  • Comment Spam on the Up?

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    When I sit down to write a short blog entry, a list and number of recently posted comments is included in the login page. Usually I don’t have any comments (poor me and lazy you), but recently the comment spam has been on the increase. Comment spamming is the use of automated programs on some…

  • Random

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    A random but nice photo of Jack on the train, with his Aunty, on the day we moved house.

  • BP

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    We’ve been moved in for a week now, and it’s feeling pretty good. So good that I thought I’d check my blood pressure. Before I started work at Swansea University my blood pressure had always been normal. My physical check up before starting measured it at 120/60, and why not? I’ve always been fit and…

  • Mange

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    Mange seems to have taken hold in the School of Medicine’s admin office.

  • Moved

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    We’ve moved. We’re now residents of Gowerton. It was a pain shifting all our stuff, especially as one after another we all picked up diarrhoea and nausea. Nice. Massive thanks to everyone that helped us move – we couldn’t have done it alone. We’re surrounded by boxes, but the piles are getting shorter. We have…

  • Utility Companies

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    One of those moving house jobs is ringing around all of your utility companies to let them know you’re moving. There’s gas, electricity, phone, cable TV, TV license, broadband, council tax, banks, credit cards, mobile phones, etc. It’s a long list, and it must be one of the major enquiries that companies receive. So you’d…

  • Jack in the Box

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    Yeah, busy packing up today.

  • Goodbye, train

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    Wow – today might be the last time I commute to work by train. We’re supposed to move house on Friday, & for the rest of the week I’ll either be at home packing or driving between Cardiff & Swansea transporting things. It feels a little strange to think about losing a defining part of…