Year: 2005

  • Communication

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    OK, so my Orange phone got its calling barred because they failed to take the monthly bill by direct debit. They are the communication company so, first I tried to ring them on the free 150 number from my mobile. It connected and the menu options worked fine, but as soon as it tried to…

  • Morning pics

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    High tide and low morning. How to build giant sandcastles? Use a giant bucket and spade. Video and games on the train to work this morning.

  • Chase

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    This cloud followed me home. Can clouds do that? Or am I just being paranoid?

  • Blown Down

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    Aaah crap. My PDA is dead, no sign of life whatsoever. And Orange have locked my phone because they didn’t take my direct debit. I reckon that lottery ticket might have been jumping the gun somewhat.

  • Blown Away

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    Nice. Today was one of those very few days where the wind switched and I actually had a tailwind to work and a tailwind from work. Sweeet. Time to buy a lottery ticket.

  • More Comment Spam

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    Snigger. Some twit bot just tried to comment spam a “comment spam” posting on my blog. Blocked and deleted.

  • Home Media Hub Mac?

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    With the new Apple iMac and Front Row software (see this page for a demo), the video iPod, video sales of TV shows on iTunes, and Quicktime’s MPEG4 encoding/decoding abilities (giving small file sizes of high quality video), Apple is finally stepping hard into the video distribution market as predicted. With the iMac’s built in…

  • Last weekend

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    A random bunch of photos from my phone, from last weekend.

  • Buying a New House

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    So as most of you have heard, it looks as though we’re finally moving to Swansea. We’ve been trying to sell our house in Cardiff for almost a year now, with no luck. The solution? A part-exchange on a new house (Kim’s idea). It turns out that when the housing market is weak, people building…

  • Video iPod

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    Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Apple’s new Video iPod yesterday. But hey, you all knew it was coming, and I’m sure you read about it elsewhere. No? OK then, here’s your link: Video iPod The funny thing is, it’s not a “Video iPod”. It’s just the new iPod. So if you go out and…