27
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by Darren
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
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25
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by Darren
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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23
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by Darren
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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20
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by Darren
Yes, another typical day in the United Kingdom. When the buzz word (phrase) was global warming we were all looking forward to Mediterranean summers; who cares if the whole of Africa became a desert and the Sahara spread into Southern Europe. It meant that even a trip to Southend would mean a glorious warm day on the beach, followed by drinking too much for a dehydrated body to take and then trashing the joint – club 18-30 would be coming home.
However, what we have now noticed is that global warming was a slightly misleading phrase. The more accurate term is climate change and it seems like the UK is seeing that this year. So far it seems that all we have had is rain. If this weather is a result of climate change then things don’t look quite so nice for us… and we’ll have to keep going to Majorca.
There is an altogether more sinister reason that the weather has been so wet. Perhaps we are in the grip of some voodoo magic being channelled through that dreadful song by Rihanna, as long as she keeps blurting out ‘Umbrella’ we’ll have to keep using them.
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04
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by Darren
Well I was hoping for McGann or Ecclestone to make a surprise appearance, but not this.
BBC – Doctor Who – News – Donna says “I do!”The big question is whether Russel T Davies is trying to wreck the show totally before he leaves at the end of series 4.
I’m off to cry
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