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Went to my first event with the folks at ecademy they had very interesting speakers from five dating companies operating in the UK, Date the UK, Match. SpeedDater, Chemistry, JakeTM Simon from date the UK gave an interesting insight into how fast things happen on the net. Within 10 months of putting the site up […]

A very sad but very true story here about how the UK has become a client state of the USA which makes the very good point that we UK citizens would have more rights if we really were the 51st state. I just wonder how much of the anti EU stuff is actually the UK […]

Came back home to find all my potted plants in courtyard are wilting due to the Gardena T14e Electronic Water timer has eaten its way through a PP9 battery in a month or so. Here are the arcane codes you have to re-enter to program the Gardena T14e ! 00 no program, 01 3 mins […]

Came back home to find all my potted plants in courtyard are wilting due to the Gardena T14e Electronic Water timer has eaten its way through a PP9 battery in a month or so. Here are the arcane codes you have to re-enter to program the Gardena T14e ! 00 no program, 01 3 mins […]

Well here we are in sunny Les Gets on the first day of our summer hols, very pleasant to! The question is – why do the french cleaners of the apartment always take all the loo rolls and washing up liquid! Tomorrow its the Tour de France, well not me personally!

Oh sheer bliss set my old geoff@cortexcontrollers.com (yes spammers its all yours now!) to bounce all mails with the result that my mail is now reduced to about 5 good mails a day. The spam was well over 100 mails a day at its worst. Even mailwasher was finding it hard to cope!. Very sympathetic […]

Suzanne pointed out that Czech Airlines flying from Stansted to Prague can be cheaper (sometimes) than Easyjet. I’ve entered it here Note that they have to send you conventional tickets

Regarding the banning of camera phones –And – with a delicious twist of irony – the latest to join the club is no less than the world’s third-largest handset manufacturer, Samsung Electronics. The Korean consumer electronics giant has banned the use of camera phones from some of its most sensitive factories, fearing that they could […]

New looking PC here although a bit weird not giving it a better display. Fits in a bit with what I want around the house. however, it has a fan at the back!!!!!! Interesting site here, that seems UK based, that reviews all the plug in TV cards for your PC. I’m sure this side […]

Interesting website on the Millenium bridge here which explains why it wobbled (basically when we walk 10% of force is sideways rather than main force which, of cause, is up and down) apparently bridges have wobbled before but no one bothered to report it to engineers! Anyway its good to know that 200 engineers designing […]