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The New Highway Code
I’d like to take this opportunity to make a plea. To drivers. First of all an extract from the Highway Code. Driving on the motorway – Rule 259 When you join the motorway you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should give…
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Wiiiiiiiii
No, I’m not sliding down a bannister. Instead, Santa brought me a Wii for Christmas (or rather Boots.com did a few months ago, before stocks starting running out, and I had it in a cupboard until Tuesday). Wow, great machine. Immediately bought some Wii points and splashed out on a Virtual Console game (Mario 3,…
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Netgear DG834GT Firmware
Netgear has recently released a firmware upgrade for its DG834GT router. I have that modem and one of the enhancements was to VOIP, which I’ve started using in the last week. Ideal. Except I spent many frustrated hours yesterday wondering why the wireless connectivity on my daughers laptop wasn’t working. Then I tried my work…
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4×4's
The not-so-fun bit of living near a private school is the swathe of shiny, black, massively sized Tonka cars that I have the joy of having to avoid as they drive like idiots. Today I had another near-miss with one of them as they decided to drive across the road in front of me, not…
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Pay to Park at Work
The Workplace Parking Levy has raised its ugly head. This is a plan by Nottingham City Council to charge people for parking at work. It will help congestion by getting people to find alternatives routes to work and they can plough the money back into local transport schemes. Except… well, where we work is on…