The Dark Side of Television Personally, I don’t watch much television, neither does anyone else in this house. Several reasons for this, not least of all the amount of time we all spend of computers and, moreso, the fact there’s beggar all worth watching! Adding up my sci-fi series and the odd movie premiere, it
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Keeping your mailbox clean 1) Always have an up-to-date anti-virus package and ideally use at least one spam filter. 2) Don’t accept mail with attachments even from relatives if you can help it (unless you are specifically expecting something) – and not ever from strangers! 3) Use different emails as appropriate: One for family and
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Personal update, 1st July 2007 I’ve had a ghastly week, it feels like my blood urea is right up again and my kidneys are giving me loads of grief – not a good thing as by the time you can feel the pain… Just as well I’m back in hospital next week to have my
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Digital and film camera companies I reckon I’ve covered all the main players, the rest I will add as I come to them. If you think you belong below or want your entry amending, let me know. Paul. Addenda 2020. Many years since I first wrote this and a number of the companies have since
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Photo Glossary A/V outputs Audio Video or A/V outputs allow you send an image or recording to a TV for viewing. AVI A video movie format clip in Windows. Unlike standards created MPEG, it can need any one of a frankly bewildering number of proprietary variations of AVI Video CODEC’s. CF Card Compact Flash cards
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(Copied from old page. Links removed as most are dead or irrelevant now. Paul, Nov 2013) Site Status (GoDaddy) (This is mostly a to-do / in progress page for my own convenience when moving a load of sites to a new, dedicated server) Alexa Quantcast quantified publisher Google Analytics Ryan’s Piczo site Ackadia .com Content:
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On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me… Permission to have one drink a night, as long as it was after 10pm and provided I felt up to it. Very sensible really, what with the kidney failure, medication and so forth, but I digress. Now and then I just like to
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On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me… Nothing, nada, zip, zilch – because by October I am heartily sick of ‘Christmas’ ! Back when I were a lad… I’m a lot older, more jaded and deeply cynical but you can’t tell me I’m wrong. OK, it helped that we still
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