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11 Disgusting Candies You Don't Ever Want to Eat
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A Piaggio scooter - 3 wheeled, but banks like a motorcycle, rather than rides like a trike. I just bought a 500 cc sport tourer LT version.
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Funny urinal moment
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Still an asthma sufferer
6 September 2012 – 10:55
Although I am a lot fitter now than I was a year or so ago, thanks to a change in diet and much more exercise, sadly I can still get taken out by asthma attacks from time to time. It has been a while since I had a cold that seriously impacted my breathing. I have one now. The cold itself is not so bad (at the moment) - I have had worse colds that have hardly touched by breathing - but is causing me a lot of difficulty. Everything is much harder than usual and concentration lasts for only a short Read more [...]
No future for colour e-ink
6 September 2012 – 10:45
With so much action in the tablet space, it is hardly surprising that there is little competition in the e-ink space, as this article by Georgiana Apetroaei makes clear.
I am deeply disappointed that we are unlikely to see good quality colour e-ink displays. Clearly, the LCD screen is too compelling a proposition and has far greater commercial promise and hence backing.
Whilst monochrome is great for traditional books, I like photography and books on this topic therefore tend to feature colour Read more [...]
Home Delivery Locker Boxes
4 September 2012 – 11:20
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We use ByBox when we order things on the internet for delivery. Instead of deliveries failing to arrive at our house at a convenient time, they are made to a central distribution centre (the delivery address we provide to Amazon, eBay, etc) and then into one of a set of secure lockers located in a convenient location near to us. You get a text of a pin number that will cause the correct locker box to open when you go to collect. The lockers are accessible 24x7.
However, the locker Read more [...]
Yet another website not following the password plot
24 August 2012 – 17:12
I was somewhat surprised in this day and age to receive by email a copy of the password I had just used to register to the ecommerce web site of a small business I needed to buy an oil tank gauge from
I sent them an email to express my surprise. Received an even more surprising response:
To put your mind as rest, that you password is safe, the below is what our web developer has said:-
The passwords are not stored in plain text, they are encrypted in the database.
The email wouldn’t be Read more [...]
The Digital Magazine dilema
18 July 2012 – 20:20
I really do not mind paying more for a digital experience that is not a gimmick but genuinely adds to the value I get out of the content over and above what I would have gained from a printed or basic digitised version. That value can be just entertainment and convenience in some cases.
I think there are three states of digitisation of magazines:
PDF version of magazine with little allowance for use on digital devices - this is irritating with, for example, photographer magazines that have Read more [...]
A journey to Sweden
15 June 2012 – 20:03
After working in Swansea for over two years, running and overseeing a wide range of infrastructure related projects, I wanted a big change and was pleased to be asked to take over a deeply troubled project in Sweden. I have never been to Sweden before let alone worked there.
The project has had many project managers before me and really needed a different management approach to drive to a satisfactory resolution for both the client and my organisation. The client was not especially pleased at Read more [...]
Blinded by a bee sting
28 May 2012 – 20:50
My eldest daughter was on a two-week field trip to a desert in Spain with her university as part of her Geology course. On the second Friday, she suffered one bee sting to an eyebrow and a second to an eyeball. This would trouble anyone, but it turned out my daughter is allergic to bee stings.
She went into anaphylactic shock and collapsed to the ground twitching and struggling to breath. Her face swelled considerably. Fortunately, the field team had good emergency procedures in place and she Read more [...]
Cloud computing discussion on facebook
28 May 2012 – 16:44
A few weeks ago, I got into a discussion about cloud computing from an unusual angle. I posted a link advising people to secure 25GB of storage on the Microsoft SkyDrive before they reduced it to 7GB. A friend of one of my friends commented that he did not trust the cloud, hadn't got into it yet especially for backing up. So I provided some more information to him, which I thought worth sharing here (with a few edits to make it easier to read).
I guess you are specifically talking about personal Read more [...]
Blue Elephant, Imperial Wharf, London
23 May 2012 – 23:17
See the full gallery on Posterous They may have relocated and lost the jungle theme, running water with fishes, and wooden bridges but the food is still fantastic. A great place to celebrate my birthday. Posted via email from kyber's posterous Read more [...]
Oedipussy
30 March 2012 – 11:41
http://www.spymonkey.co.uk/oedipussy/Saw a magnificent performance at the Curve studio theatre in Leicester last night and was blown away. Just four actors in the cast and the fourth wall blown away at regular intervals as they stepped in and out of primary characters and interacted with the audience and yet still managed to draw us into incredibly emotional story moments. Supremely talented, brilliantly presented, very entertaining and compelling. Recommended. The kind of live theatre treat that Read more [...]
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