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New laptop time – this time around it’s a shiny Sony Vaio VGN-FW48E. Sony were kind/vindictive enough to pre-install the machine with Windows Vista which was no good to me as I actually want to do some stuff with the machine, not sit looking at a boot up logo all day or wait 15 minutes [...]
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Managed to get this error this morning (13.01.00 – error in paper path for tray 2). Checked feed path – no problems. Checked guide rails in the paper tray, again all was as it should be. This didn’t help. Turns out that whoever had filled it last had allowed to bottom sheet of the ream [...]
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Read a few random blogs yesterday complaining the new BBC iPlayer Beta wasn’t up to much and didn’t actually work. Well, for me it does and it’s quite frankly brilliant. You can watch the last weeks BBC programmes free on your PC. Of course, if you’re really smart, you have a wireless media connection to [...]
Letter received in the post today reads simply: Telemessage (My name & address here…) Private and Confidential URGENT Dear Mr Fletcher, Please contact us immediately on 08700100563 quoting reference 05011600063223816 Lines are open between 9.00am and 9.00pm Monday-Thursday and between 9.00am and 8pm Friday. What’s truly bizarre is the footer of the letter. It says: [...]
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So a glass of wine gets spilled on my Belkin wireless router and it dies. Hurrah! Time for a new, and hopefully better wireless router. The options are seemingly endless these days, and they are cheap too. There was, however, only one choice. Once you’ve seen the Linksys WTR54GS you’ll fall in love with it. [...]
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LOST – despite the dropping ratings I’m still one of the ones following Lost and obviously since the first episode I’ve been trying to understand what the blazes is going on. This weeks episode (I believe) has exposed the core “truth”. This weeks episode answered so many questions that I’m now just waiting for my [...]
