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Pulling some pictures off my camera today and I came across this one… i’m really hungry now!
Cooked using this recipe at BBCGoodFood, it’s a brilliant, easy, snack!
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If you’re reading this, there’s a reasonable chance you came here via Google I guess…
I recently got hold of a NSLU2 (aka the ‘Slug’), which is a nifty little linksys box that serves as a NAS server. It’s particularly nifty because with some custom firmware, you can flash it to a full Linux [...]

I’ve just had my first ‘graze box’ delivered – free courtesy of http://tinyurl.com/freegraze – and it’s pretty tasty!
Of course, healthy eating by post could quickly become rather expensive (and it’s not cost effective compared to just going to the supermarket) but there’s definitely something fun about having a box of random goodness to [...]

CABwiz for CAB generation running using wineconsole in Ubuntu, very cool! The more I use linux, the more I like it!
Worthy of note is that using the standard Ubuntu Intrepid repositories, wineconsole wouldn’t play nice… it’s only when I added the WineHQ repositories and installed Wine that way would it play nice (e.g. [...]

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’nuff said!

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The Scenario
Skiing, Avoriaz, New Year 2008 / 2009
The Car
Mazda 6 MPS

The Problem
So this year we are going snowboarding, as we do, and this year we’re going to Avoriaz, a resort in France. Now, in the past we’ve either seemed to end up in hire cars (sometimes with snow chains) or in our own car (generally [...]

Since YouTube announced they are now hosting HD videos (YAY!), i’ve been playing on my Mac with getting the optimum settings for high quality uploads. As a heads up for those also setting out on the HD adventure, i’ve used these settings with great results from my Xacti HD 2 and Flip Mino HD.
Hope this [...]