March 2007
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Webstar Cable Modem
I’m posting this in the vague hope it’ll help others, save them a few bob, and at the very least it’ll mean I have this info stored somewhere when I need to look it up again. The problem My cable modem was connecting, but dropping the connection after a few minutes. Rebooting the modem gave…
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New and Shiny
My new PC has arrived! I spent a fair chunk of time last night un-installing the supplied software, and installing my preferred choices and all in all it’s pretty darn sleek, fast and quiet. Still a few things to tweak and tinker with but, by and large, it’s all setup how I like it. I’m…
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Arcade Fire
“Leave your jacket in the car” they said. And so, that is how you find the author, standing underneath the flashing neon facade which slowly cycles through the word Barrowland, dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. He is cold. When his friends finally turn up, replete with jumpers and jackets, the buggers, they troop in…
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Shaggy Blog Stories
UPDATE: The deadline has been pulled FORWARD. You have until 6pm on Tuesday 13th March (that’s tonight!) How tardy of me. At some point, deep in the midst of my brain-melting week, I received an email from mike. Mike had had a big idea. That, in itself, is nothing new. Mike has big ideas all…
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Last week…
Hello all, apologies for my absence last week, couldn’t be helped, c’est la vie and all that. So a quick catchup. Last week was my induction week for Graham Technology and the only downside is that it made me feel very old. This is only because the majority of the other ‘new starts’ were fresh…
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Cynic-less
I must be getting old. I’m losing my cynicism. Or rather, I’m refusing to be curtailed by it, and I’m stating this now so you can all point this out later on when I suddenly perform a dramatic U-turn. Which reminds me, to the lorry driver in front of me this morning, yes you. The…