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Social netWORKS

My new mission is to get as many of my ‘non-technical’ friends on things like Twitter and Facebook. They have both been extremely useful this last week. Lisa has been in hospital. Understandably, a lot of different people have wanted to be kept up to date. With Facebook & Twitter (Especially when using my mobile [...]

Breakfast

I was watching TV this morning, feeling hungry , and watching Saturday Kitchen. Lawrence Keogh’s recipe looked fantastic, and reasonably simple, so I went over to the kitchen to have a go.
Today is shopping day, and the cupboards are bare. I’m having baked bean toasties instead

Should it work?

I have one of these on my laptop:

I have one of these from Ebay (cost a couple of quid):

I have one of these from my box of cables:

I have one of these in my living room:

Should I be able to link the 4 together and view the laptop output(Ubuntu) on the TV? If so, could [...]

Multi-region capabilities

Today, I have the happiness. I now have a DVD player in the living room that can play Multi-region DVD’s, as well as XVID/DIVX encoded videos. (In case anyone is interested, it is a Cyberhome DVD401 bought from Amazon.co.uk for the staggering sum of £17.99 + postage & packaging a couple of years back).
This means [...]

Tiscali Fair Usage

I signed up with Tiscali unlimited for broadband. we’ve just bought our first house, so I went for the cheapest option, at the best speed for my area, with unlimited usage. It got turned on on Saturday.
It is now Tuesday, and I have just had an email from Tiscali, warning me about my usage. Apparently, [...]