Author Archives: Steve

Getting to grips with Latitude


Warning: This post contains material of a technical and mathematical nature, if you start reading and feel dizzy or nauseous then stop reading immediately and go and lie down. Google Latitude is an interesting little app which allows you to … Continue reading

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Summer is over… it’s official

September 1st and Summer is now officially over. How do I know? Do I have some special Almanac that tells me? Is it all based on folk lore? Is it because the schools went back today? Nope, its none of … Continue reading

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All hands on Deck

Last weekend Nick and I headed up to the boat to do some work on it. The deck boards on the boat are made out of plywood and they get wet and once water gets in on the cut edge … Continue reading

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Internet on the Boat

Kathy and I spent the weekend on the boat on the moorings. We couldn’t go any where because the canal is closed due to a breach on one of the embankments and so they’ve closed all the locks to stop … Continue reading

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The case of the stranded contacts

I quite like my G1, and now I’ve got TasKiller it’s battery life is almost reasonable. One of the big features of the G1 is that when you set it up you have to tie it to a Google Account. … Continue reading

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TasKiller

I’ve had an Adroid G1 on T-Mobile for quite a bit now and I quite like it, its got a lot of good features but one huge problem with it is the damned battery life. Like its terrible. I found … Continue reading

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Keeping things up to date

It’s a never ending task really. Most of the core server components update automatically, as long as I remember to kick off an update process once in a while, its everything else that you need to keep a eye on. … Continue reading

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Just another Statistic

That’s what I am, when it comes to being part of a large, and growing, number of people who are out of work. 6 months without work is not nice and the market is such that its now an employers … Continue reading

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Knight Rider

You’re probably thinking that Steve’s gone bonkers but please bear with me on this one. Sci-Fi are running the new series of Knight Rider. Now we all remember the original which starred The Hoff which aired back in the early … Continue reading

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Something in the shed?

For a while now we’ve been hearing odd thumping noises at night from outside and one morning they either woke Kathy up or stopped her going back to sleep. At first we thought it was our neighbours daughter ( who … Continue reading

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