October 2003
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Carving the Pumpkin
Firstly you must be prepared. Knives are essential (obviously) as is an ice cream scoop. Other sites my advocate power tools but I prefer the hand approach (and I’m not allowed them in the kitchen…). Firstly cut open the top, remembering to cut at an angle so that the ‘top’, when replaced, doesn’t fall inside…
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Facts of life
In lieu of ‘real’ content I give you one of those forwarded emails which you’ve no doubt seen at some point: 1) Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.2) At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.3) One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when…
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Typical
Did you see it? Concorde yesterday? If you did, can you let me know? Despite sitting down in front of the telly, balancing the laptop precariously on my knees, and being tuned to the BBC. I missed it!!! I have a bit of tendency to get caught up in what I’m doing (at that time,…
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Hospital Radio
(I’ve been meaning to jot down some ‘history’ so here is the first in an occasional series, occasional as in ‘when-I-remember’) When I was sixteen, it was a very good year… I joined the Boys Brigade in primary school. When I asked why I was greeted with the kind of biblical testament kids soon learn…
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Sounding better
Cast your mind back to the mid-80s and early mobile phones. You remember them, big clunky, and not exactly ‘mobile’ really. As time moves on, they get smaller, and the technology in the phones improves. Nowadays the size of a mobile phone isn’t really the issue, more the features and gadgets you get with it..…
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iTunes revisited
A couple of people prompted me to revise my opinion of iTunes, so I installed on my laptop (at work) which only has a dozen or so albums on it. OK, so aside from the “ohhh let me re-organize your files” fascination (is this official a bug yet?), I guess it’s pretty smart. A couple…