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
Introducing Free IQ : The Marketplace for Ideas! Still in beta but this has the potential to be the next ‘YouTube’ style phenomenon! Before you think of visiting what could be the ‘next big thing’, read my thoughts on the matter: At the most basic level it is a fully searchable, peer rated, free to […]
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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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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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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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