Monthly Archives: December 2006

Auld Lang Syne…

Sunday, 31st December, 2006 – 17:32

It’s that time of the year again. Time to make your resolutions. Time to dust down the memories of the past year, and to look forward to the new.

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WordPress Tiger Administration Plugin

Sunday, 31st December, 2006 – 01:02

I’ve just installed the WP Tiger Admin Plugin This has got to be the coolest looking plugin for WordPress that I’ve come across yet. Unfortunately, you won’t see it unless you have your own blog. It changes the look of the WordPress Administration area. So if you do have a blog powered by WordPress, I [...]

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Blog Spam

Thursday, 28th December, 2006 – 20:45

Over the last few days I’ve started to get some spam comments directed towards this site.

Luckily, I had set up this site to require users to be registered to leave a comment, and for all comments to be moderated before they were posted.

I have slightly updated this to require all users to be registered and [...]

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Dead Hard Drive

Thursday, 28th December, 2006 – 20:32

A couple of months ago I bought an external hard drive: it was a Seagate 320GB 7200 rpm. Now it’s a paper-weight. I felt that with all the data I had on my PC, it would be a good idea to have some sort of backup. That was the theory anyway. But of course, the [...]

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Broadband Issues - Yet Another Update

Saturday, 23rd December, 2006 – 02:40

After another call and more troubleshooting with my provider I’m still having problems with my connection. I’ve done everything I can to eliminate any hardware or software problems on my side. So far I’ve tried with:

3 different computers,
2 different routers,
no router,
Windows XP (Home and MCE),
and Linux.

Still no joy. I know the problem is not with [...]

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Birthday Party - Open Invite

Saturday, 23rd December, 2006 – 02:18

I have finally given in to peer pressure and decided to have a 30th birthday party. So to all my friends and family, I hereby issue an open invitation to my birthday bash on the 5th January 2007 at The Stables at 9 PM.

There will be food, and drink. Lots of drink.

I get the feeling [...]

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