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Roast Lamb Chops, and roast potatoes for dinner. It was yummy.
A nice cool Sam Adams, during the evening, whilst doing the radio.
Finding and playingsome brand new electronica and dance music on NAB Radio. It’s good to give new artists the exposure they need.

Talking News

I thought I’d play with it for a while, but I always end up treating this type of app as a bit of a toy. However, I tried out the KDE text to speech manager in Ubuntu, and it’s a lot better than anything I’ve heard so far.

It’s not perfect by any means, but [...]

Redneck Senior Scooter

Success!

Get to the root of the problem. When I worked on the railroad, we were taught to always follow set procedures. It’s stood me well in the world of IT as well. Even a few minutes scribbling down a quick flow chart, can quickly lead you to the root of the issue.
You don’t have to [...]

On This Day

On this day, as well it being the 41st Anniversary of England’s first and, so far, only win of the World Cup, 1973 saw the end of the 11 year long Thalidomide case, in which the victims were awarded some twenty million pounds (approx US$40 million).

1991 saw the Italian tenor Pavorotti celebrate 30 years [...]