I have a folking confession

As a close friend of mine once revealed a love for country music, I must also announce a love for folk music. I can often be found listening to Mike Harding’s radio 2 show, but I am a folkin newbie.

I am however, a mash-up fan and know quite a bit about that. So I was overjoyed when i found the latest Mash-up album available via the internet. Go on, I dare you… this is good.


FOOLKLEGS : Folkloric MashUps (selected by Funky Belek & KrazyBen)

My love of folk music can also be seen in the following less than traditional comedy clip



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Flickr, Yahoo and BT

Well I like to give credit where credit is due, if I get good service I pass it on. If anyone remembers my concerns about where I could store my online photos when Yahoo remove their photo storage, then I have some interesting news.

I get my broadband account from BT. Now it is a little more expensive (I think, suppose I should double check) but I do get unlimited usage and a quite close to 8MB service. I have never had any problems with logging on and up time must be virtually 100%. But part of the package gave me unlimited photo storage with Yahoo. Now Yahoo are shutting down their storage and suggesting people use Flickr – now owned by Yahoo so why would they want two photo hosting solutions [yes they do offer slightly different options but that is probably not worth all the extra work]. No problem there but with Flickr I wouldn’t get unlimited storage. However, I have just found out that as part of my BT broadband package my Flickr account has been upgraded to a Pro account. It will remain that way until I stop subscribing to BT. And they have a nice little utility that will import all my photos.

So once again I am a happy bunny.

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Time for a Mac?

Well after seemingly fixing the email fault with Outlook it continued to return intermittently.

  • give up on Outlook – Microsoft are of the devil
  • install Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla are not of the devil
  • Test Thunderbird
  • Thunderbird doesn’t work either
  • recheck settings
  • Thunderbird has same intermittent fault as Outlook
  • Apologise to Microsoft, Outlook and all the little Microserfs who created it and do a wonderful job keeping it updated
  • Uninstall Thunderbird – no point in having two redundant email clients
  • check facebook
  • facebook down for maintenance
  • facebook is of the devil
  • realise that the only thing that could affect both Outlook and Thunderbird is Norton
  • (now worry about whether I have used the right word, affect or effect – can’t be bothered to check dictionary)
  • turn off all of Norton and live update (I’m not getting caught out like before)
  • Uninstall all of the Security software on the PC
  • Hope that the PC doesn’t get attacked whilst doing this delicate operation
  • test Outlook, it works
  • Reinstall security software – restart a silly number of times
  • test Outlook, it works
  • scan PC to check I haven’t been attacked
  • wait silly amount of time
  • sleep

If anyone feels called to buy me one of these please feel free to leave a message in the comments

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