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Archive for January, 2012

Another day, another FTTC router.

You may have read several items here about my adventures with Fibre To The Cabinet, aka FTTC. It’s sold by BT Retail as Infinity. I’ve had the VDSL modem replaced once already, but it seems that it still generated enough heat to cook an egg. Now BT have contracted out an company called “Kelly” to [...]

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How great is Birmingham?!

Blimey, the actual New York Times had written an article about Brum, and it’s complimentary too! Link – http://t.co/xfteEPo8

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So, errr.. am I going mad here or?

Quidco sent me a mail saying that I could get Virgin Broadband for £5 a month for 3 months. Not bad.. Just £5 for the first three months. Sounds like a deal, and you get a whacking cashback… I think I’ll check it out, so .. just a few clicks onto the Virgin Media site [...]

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A bored crow

Wow, this is mega. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP9RnDp_tms

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Spending time with your children

For anyone with kids, or those about to have children, I’ve got some important advice. Our son is three. For Christmas he had stacks of toys and we’re lucky enough to have a nice home with a garden for him to play in. I work, a lot. I write for Coolsmartphone and have a full-time [...]

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Hello, is it me you’re looking for?

Crickey, someone worked a lot on this.. Hello from ant1mat3rie on Vimeo.

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Concordia disaster.. Can I just point something out?

The Captain of the vessel, Francesco Schettino was on a life boat talking to the lifeguard when the ship was sinking. This BBC news story details the conversation that happened. Here’s the key points for me.. OK. The Captain is on the lifeboat. He shouldn’t be there really, because there’s people still on the ship. [...]

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Bond, James Bond..

Not safe for work because of swearing. Gotta love Mr Bond ;)

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The Prodigy (a cappella)

Well. This kicks some serious bootie.. :)

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Oh .. My head…

So….. this is weird. Click it, go on… http://www.therestartpage.com/

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