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  • Cambridge Evening News

    Ellee and I (well mainly Ellee) have had our second blogging article published in The Cambridge Evening News today (over 40 column inches!). The article is currently on the internet at this page it will be interesting to see how long it remains there. before disappearing into the great CEN silo never to re-appear. Archived…

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  • Blogs or bogs

    I’ve decided to venture up to the land of peat and bogs to make a second attempt at The Pennine Way. George, Steve and I made a start 41 years ago in 1965. We packed up at Malham having completed 66miles, Steve decided he had enough . (Following week I cycled from Blackpool to Edinburgh…

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  • Microsoft’s blunder and IE7

    Excellent article from John Dvorak clearly stating why Microsoft blundered when they suddenly went into the browser business. Afraid I have uninstalled my IE7 as it caused Firefox to seize up and anyway it didnt seem to offer any advantages over Firefox.

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  • IE7 download

    Downloaded the new Internet Explorer 7beta this morning all 12MB of it plus all its ‘updates’, after all it was released yesterday. I thought I would see what extensions were available:- Wow just look at the size of those downloads! and they expect me to pay for them too! Interestingly the default search engine is…

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  • NHS Blog Doctor: British GPs win Eurolottery

    NHS Blog Doctor writes that British GPs win Eurolottery: “A full time partner in my practice currently earns about £140,000 year net of expenses. Over the last two years, we have had a pay rise of between twenty and twenty-five percent” and of cause, he states,you can increase your pay by these lovely ruses too…

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  • Anyone for tennis? Real of course…

    Took myself off for my first lesson in Real Tennis today under the guidance of Kees Ludekens the senior coach at Cambridge University Real Tennis Club, yep a bit of a mouthful and rather offputting as you don’t have to belong to the university at all to join. Really enjoyable especially under Kees eagle eye,…

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  • A barrage of hope.

    At last the green power community have homed in on the right thing for us folks on this sceptred isle to do. One project that can provide upto 7% of the UK’s electricity for the next few hundred years with no pollution greenhouse gases, radiation or fuel costs. The BBC report today that the Severn…

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  • Hear from your MP

    Following on from my recent post where I was one of 162 (now 168) people who have signed up for the Hear from your MP service. Last week David happened to turn up at the door promoting his local bod (Steven Cooper whose interests I note are ethereal – Music, Singing, Film, Holiness, Justice rather…

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  • Feeling cold in Cambridge UK

    I wonder if this is why I have been feeling the cold more than usual “They also found that volunteers who restricted their caloric intake by 25% or achieved similar results by cutting calories and upping exercise had a reduced average core body temperature at the conclusion of the six month trial. Lower body temperatures…

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  • The blogosphere today (maybe)

    Two takes on the role of the blogosphere. First post by Morgan McLintic reflects on Dale Wolf’s post based on people who are subscribed to rss feeds on Bloglines where apparently there are “only” 36,000 feeds with more than 29 subscribers. Personally I think this is a gross under estimate. As off the people I…

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