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Family Holiday to Treago
I haven’t posted personal “stuff” on the site much recently, so I thought it was time for a change. I’ve just got back from an excellent week at Treago, near Hereford. Thanks to my brother-in-law Jonathan, a number of photos from a day out in Ludlow (and more specifically the castle) have been uploaded to…
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One… just one
. Harvest bugs. Thunder bugs. Whatever you want to call them, they’re small insects that come out during the warm weather, and mainly around fields. I’ve read in the past that because of their small size they’re prone to getting between the layers of LCD monitors and dying – and they’re not easily removable either…
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Querying Microsoft licenses
With the recent demise of my Mesh PC and the arrival of a brand-spanking-new Dell, I assumed my nice boxed edition of Office 2007 could be transferred across. I was wrong. First of all, I thought I’d check whether I could, so I’d contact Microsoft – their EULA didn’t appear specific enough. Their contact page…
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Why Steve Jobs is wrong about Flash
Steve Jobs doesn’t like Flash. That’s patently clear. He blames most Mac crashes on Flash and, I have to say, since Firefox starting sandboxing plugins I’ve seen regular reported Flash crashes. However, a lot – a lot – of high profile websites use Flash, mainly to render video. Steve’s answer to this is HTML 5…
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The T-Mobile G2 Touch finally gets Eclair!
Today, T-Mobile finally announced that Android 2.1 (Eclair) was available for G2 Touch (AKA HTC Hero) owners. If you’ve not received your “pre-upgrade” update already, you’ll need to do this – it makes various small changes in readiness for the Eclair update. To get this, wind your clock on by a month and switch off…