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An incredible site here at www. nationmaster.com for all of us who are interesting in statistics. It allows you to compile your own, goodness knows where all data comes from. Pretty appalling death rate in South Africa with 1 in 1,400 people been murdered with guns . See here
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Strange old world, today in Cambridge we were blessed with the NATO top dogs meeting. Crikey the University Arms Hotel was turned into a fortress surrounded by police and fencing all the windows blacked out and that major UK innovation of covering all the rubbish bins with polythene bags, upto 1 mile away!! at least…
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Good news on the Treo front after emailing handspring at their service centre in Norwich. Chris promised to get it fixed, and he did. received a bright shiny new Treo270 serial 102.004 today. So will defintely be buying Treo600 but the contract will not be with O2. Also just amazing to hoysync it back into…
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Wow this personal networking that ecademy has set up really works, within two hours of posting on my ecademy blog I received phone calls emails etc all very relevant with folks who had contacts in exactly the right places. Hope my Nick and his www.baboongear.com really seize the opportunities and go for it. Oh! and…
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Interesting site here for checking out obscure english words and phrases. However, no mardy or nesh from my childhood in the midlands.
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A bad day for my Treo yesterday – its aerial snapped away from the casing! also was the last day of my O2 contract, which included insurance! Aghh. Rang the so called member services number for O2 on 0870 444 3333 to be left hanging on for 30 minutes (you would thing that a telecomms…
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Discovered the wonderful Shields Up software that simulates an attack on your computer and publishes all your systems vulnerabilities. Good old Smoothwall at home scored top marks.
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Discovered a wasps nest on my balcony this morning, theough www.eyp.co.uk I discovered Five star pest control (01223 264999) very fast and efficient service arrived on time. Very good at £35 and guaranteed treatment. poor wasps are looking very angry and agitated now! Recommended for wasp nest removal in and around Cambridge UK
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A truly tragic story here of how a 86 year old guy mistook his accelerator for the brake and killed 10 people in Santa Monica USA. And I guess this sort of thing is going to be more frequent as the population ages and have to use cars as they live on their own. A…
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An excellent blog at waxy.org here which gave me this link to a site for re-organising all my MP3’s that I re-discovered this weekend. Interesting that the idea of ripping CD’s is now filtering down to my more computer illiterate friends. The time must be ripe to offer a ripping service onto a USB hard…