Whatever crossed my time on the day, usually general muttering and rebelliousness over shady pricing by big companies, but also grammar, humour (100 funny insurance quotes is popular), and more
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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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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Grade one ballet theory Movements and phonetic pronunciation for the grade one ballet exam Movement: Battement Phonetic pronunciation: Baht-mahn Simple pronunciation guide: bat a mon Description: To beat, beating Movement: Changement, (Changement de pieds) Phonetic pronunciation: Shahnzh-mahns, (dih pee-ay) Simple pronunciation guide: charn gee marnt Description: Changing of the feet (3rd to 3rd), (Change of
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These a cursory reviews of several books I was reading at the time, as I did a module on Visual Basic during a HNC in Computing and Software Engineering Visual Basic Controls in a Nutshell By Evan S Dictor ©1999 O’Reilly & Associates: ISBN 1-56592-294-8 In a nutshell, it’s an excellent resource. That’s a posh
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Windows 2000 Server for Dummies by Ed Tittel with Mary T. Madden, James Michael Stewart ©1999 [ www.idgbooks.com ] IDG Books ~Dummies Press ISBN 0-7645-0341-3 Actually I’m quite a fan of the Dummies range which can be quite enlightening at times. The sometimes irreverent cartoons are always good too. One thing that intrigued me though
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Networking 3rd edition By Chrispher Negus & Bill Wagner Que Publishing: ISBN 0-7897-2469-3 Not a bad little book, especially for beginners wanting to set up a small network for their home or office or as a stepping stone / aid to networking courses like HNC, NVQ and even Network+. Coverage
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ECDL3 The Complete Course Book by Brendan Munnelly and Paul Holden Published by [ ] Prentice Hall (ISBN 0-130-90837-1) cf InformIT Everything you need to pass the European Computer Driving licence I actually read in the local paper about a girl who completed the ECDL course in two months instead of the 1 –
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