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When a walk in the park becomes uncomfortable
I have 2 daughters – one is a little over 3 months old and the other is 11 years old. Quite a difference in age but I’m sure you’d find nothing weird or wrong with that. So, we’ll often go out. Just for a walk or we’ll go to a nearby park. My old daughter…
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Netbook Easy Mode
Many of the Linux powered Netbooks come with a simple “Easy Mode” front end – large, chunky icons, all categorised into tabbed menus for you to launch. However, their Windows XP equivalents usually boot to the standard desktop. A Windows version of these easy menus would therefore be useful. I’ve come across 3 which, kind…
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Boycott Scotland!
Or rather not. Some rather patriotic American has created a website, boycottscotland.com, to blame Scotland for the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Now, I’ll admit to not being sure myself whether his release was for the best or not. However, as was said at the time, he showed no compassion for what…
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Uri Gell…er?
Just after Michael Jackson died, Uri Geller said the following… Michael was in good shape because he was practising, he was training, he was rehearsing for the shows. Michael was careful with what he ate, he was just fine. Last time I heard of what he was doing, he was in great shape. And this…
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Displaying Code in WordPress
I often have the need to display code within this blog – whether it’s JavaScript, PHP, XHTML or something else. There are many plugins available that will display any such code in a nice manner – usually with syntax highlighting – but, as yet, I’ve been unable to find one that doesn’t fulfil my requirements.…