tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56367012459320997532021-02-02T06:15:16.905+00:00From gin and tonic to my cats favourite operating system and anything else boring enough to mention.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-49453947677114321582015-03-28T16:19:00.002+00:002015-03-28T16:19:57.566+00:00

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-46654106637304746792014-08-08T19:30:00.001+01:002014-08-08T19:30:36.702+01:00

Spore won't load after being installed by steam. You'll find this a lot on forums but nothing by way of a solution, at least not one that worked for me. Got it working in the end though and here is what I did. My OS Windows XP Symptom: Click play Spore in Steam, game either black screens and crashes with an XP error or simply nothing happens. Tried: Verifying game files which always finds 1

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-2609525456030982802013-05-08T23:07:00.000+01:002013-05-09T22:16:03.386+01:00

The problem. You have the BBC media player app and the BBC iplayer app installed but when you click the iplayer app it launches your browser and you get a page that says that your device is not supported. And/ Or when you try to use the default Android browser or Chrome (which also comes on the device pre- installed) to view the BBC iplayer it appears to work up until when you try and play a

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-6781703776026415182012-04-07T02:21:00.001+01:002012-04-07T02:21:24.125+01:00

  This works for checking the domain names accessed by a specific PC using any browser including Chrome Incognito. The advantage of this method is that you don’t need to install software the disadvantage is that only domain names will be logged not specific web pages. First go to https://store.opendns.com/get/premium-dns/ and sign up for a free account. Next for a windows XP pc login with

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-50989646746014999602012-03-28T03:42:00.001+01:002012-03-28T03:42:19.520+01:00

  When analysing this ad it is important to remember that Clint Eastwood does not need need the money from doing the voice over for a car advertisement, indeed he has apparently donated his fee to charity. This begs the question, why did he do it? It would be fair to assume that Mr Eastwood's agreement to doing the ad would have been conditional, clearly not on financial gain, but on his

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-34668575969963353872012-03-27T09:50:00.001+01:002012-03-27T09:50:26.996+01:00

The second polybore look alike, the first being http://www.polybore.co.uk/2010/02/catherine-tate-sex-robot-modelled-on-or.html , again has a “Dr Who” connection. This time it is Dot Cotton (on the left) and Davros (on the right).

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-70881491480616506212012-03-09T21:50:00.001+00:002012-03-20T11:42:19.773+00:00

Video of IR sender taken with basic mobile phone digital camera.   Today needed to check if a TV remote control had stopped working or if it was the actual ir receiver on the TV that was at fault. (Didn't want to buy a replacement remote only to find that was not the problem). After a bit of research it turns out that most digital cameras can "see infra red". So pointed the ir

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-72929136784276399392012-01-23T00:13:00.001+00:002012-01-23T00:13:53.925+00:00

Ok so you have set up your pages on the WordPress 2011 theme but you do not want that big page title displaying at the top of each page. The good news is it is very easy to do. Hopefully you have found this article before wading through the WordPress forums wasting time and being thoroughly bamboozled. Anyway, moan over, here is how we worked out how to do it ourselves and which we wish we had

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-82988069521436460222011-08-08T15:47:00.001+01:002011-08-08T15:47:40.474+01:00

Have been growing Venus Fly traps for a number of years. Never having seen this happen before it was a surprise to find that this plant had produced two "mouths" on the same stem.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-42298486042095739752011-07-07T02:02:00.001+01:002011-07-07T02:02:45.820+01:00

  The News of the World phone hacking scandal currently raging is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Calling it hacking is a bit of a misnomer as getting access to an unsecured mobile voicemail service is very, very easy and anyone can do it. One private detective working for one newspaper has been fingered for hacking voicemail so far but without doubt other private investigators,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-38889977561271331762011-03-19T12:47:00.001+00:002011-03-19T12:47:45.766+00:00

Kadafi? http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-libya-benghazi-20110320,0,7939175.story Gadafi? http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0319/breaking1.html?via=mr Odd.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-49777063978763002742011-02-26T19:34:00.001+00:002012-04-10T02:29:03.793+01:00

It is The Sun wot's lost it.

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  David Cameron today, in Germany of all places and on the same day as a march by the “English Defence League”, has criticised multiculturalism in the UK. The speech in which Cameron made these remarks was the 47th Munich Security Conference. By making these remarks in this context Cameron is flagging up that the British Government believes that multiculturalism is a threat to national

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-69235342483859752162011-02-01T02:02:00.001+00:002011-02-01T02:04:42.504+00:00

  You want pay as you go internet for your phone. What can you get for £10 a month? (scroll to the end for the conclusion if you don’t want to see the sums) 1. £10 giffgaff Goody Bag (lasts 30 days) (O2 network) 250 minutes calls Costs applicable to calling credit: £10 the price of the goody bag + 24p per MMS (so no MMS or you will need to top up more than £10) Unlimited texts Unlimited

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-82050177728141873722011-01-31T00:20:00.001+00:002011-01-31T00:20:28.408+00:00

  So you have your fantastic Orange San Franciso phone, you have unlocked it but you are having trouble finding the vodafone settings for it or, like polybore, you got the internet set up ok but the San Francisco can not send picture messages (MMS). Well here are the MMS and internet settings you need and confirmed working on polybore’s phone. Thanks to Paul Oates for the illusive MMS settings.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-44254466979400674342011-01-10T01:39:00.001+00:002011-01-10T01:39:50.041+00:00

The coalition government thinks that GPs are best placed to meet the demands of their patients so bye bye PCTs and hello GP consortia. However in a bizarre move which seems to completely go against the grain of Government policy David Cameron has suggested that GPs will have their power to order vaccines removed. If GPs cannot be trusted by Government to order sufficient quantities of vaccine

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-70041900738533141152010-12-21T14:03:00.004+00:002011-01-15T10:02:47.391+00:00

If you are not already aware of it there is a great new initiative called  Getting British Business Online. If you have a business or are just starting one all you have to do is register and for free you get a domain name (website address) of your choice that ends in .co.uk. The initiative uses nominet as the domain name registrar and Google Sites to host the website. Because the scheme is

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-46105572844695234982010-12-15T14:13:00.001+00:002010-12-15T14:23:15.993+00:00

The EMTALA legislation means that by law a US ER department cannot refuse treatment. This means that the uninsured or those with insufficient assets to pay the bill are being treated. So who ends up paying the bill and how much is it? Surprisingly considering the amount of attention that the US health reforms currently receive it is very difficult to find a US Government statistic to this

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-42865361981614269852010-12-05T00:32:00.000+00:002010-12-05T00:32:00.851+00:00

The San Antonio Business Journal reported that Rackhost which provides web hosting services was sent a bomb threat that caused the evacuation of the companies head quarters in San Antonio on Thursday the 2nd of December 2010. Although the bomb threat turned out to be a hoax it does make one think who would want to send a bomb threat to a web hosting company and why Rackhost in particular.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-83231629464109233892010-05-20T23:55:00.001+01:002010-05-20T23:55:43.055+01:00

This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License Copyright by World Economic Forum, swiss-image.ch/Photo by Remy Steinegger. Many Conservatives have been, lets say surprised, at the direction that their party, in coalition government, seems to be heading. But perhaps they should not be surprised. David Cameron has never been very popular with

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-78035186084500372192010-05-11T04:07:00.001+01:002010-05-11T04:11:09.903+01:00

  All the talk is of the Liberal Democrats becoming part of a coalition government. The advantages and otherwise of all the possible coalition permutations have been discussed in their minutiae. The LibDem quandary is that forming any sort of coalition in the current circumstances is effective electoral suicide. The LibDems are ideologically incompatible with the Conservatives at the grass

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-46322171859182367652010-05-06T01:04:00.002+01:002010-05-06T10:40:30.318+01:00

A little late in the day but if Brown had been making speeches like this from day one of the campaign…. Difficult to imagine the other airbrushed inflatable plastic party leaders managing to make a speech from the heart in the way Brown has here.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-78979286506923178312010-04-21T23:33:00.001+01:002010-04-21T23:33:56.707+01:00

  Not the election who knows what will happen there, no, The Sun has just lost it, period, the “it” being it’s political nous. When The Sun jumped the New Labour ship for the David Cameron band wagon back in October 2009, a Conservative landslide victory seemed certain, The Sun must have felt confident that they would once again have the satisfaction of backing the winning team in the same way

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-16611315968344846372010-03-02T02:15:00.001+00:002010-03-02T02:15:04.803+00:00

Gordon Brown has undoubtedly been an unpopular Prime Minister and it is accepted that a big part of this is due to the fact he can’t get his personality across via the media and/ or because his personality, well, just isn’t very nice. By contrast David Cameron hasn’t really had a chance to become unpopular with anyone other than the Conservative Parliamentary Party (over his handling of the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636701245932099753.post-68276852599246855672010-03-01T20:44:00.001+00:002010-03-05T15:17:27.999+00:00

Aberdeenshire Council and The Scottish Government are desperate for Donald Trump’s investment as demonstrated by the overturning of the original planning committee's decision to reject the plans for the golfing resort and the current “last resort” threat of compulsory purchases on those residents who do not want to sell. It is not enough just to build it. However for Donald Trump’s

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