Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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IIS on Vista
Now i’m only a basic web site designer so why on earth do I want to set this up on my Vista machine. Well if you run .asp files then you have to upload them to the web server to see what you’ve done. So in the past on xp i’d set up a local…
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Chris off to Australia
My old friend Chris from Connexe Peripherals dropped round on Wednesday evening for a meal and to say farewell – as he is off to Australia with his partner Pete at the weekend. Chris is an I.T. god and also very good at photography – so i’m sure he’ll have no problems getting a job…
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More Wildlife – Muntjak and Bat
A very rare treat at the end of our garden on Saturday morning was a Muntjak – i’ve only ever seen one once before in our garden. I took a number of photos from the house and this is the ‘best’ one. read more
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Busy Busy Week
Wow, what a week we are having. It started last weekend when Rebecca had her birthday and we had the family round and Auntie Annie. We went for a lovely walk to the picnic table at the back of the NSE – and had a picnic – James and Rebecca loved it – great fun…
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Human League on BBC Breakfast
The Human League are embarking on a steel city tour in the Autumn with Heaven 17 and ABC and to promote it they appeared on BBC breakfast this morning. I was amazed that they clearly had underaken absolutely no research on the topic – the lady presenter asked if they had ever bumped in to…
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Greenhouse Progress
Good progress in the garden overhaul, with the greenhouse leading the way. We picked our first tomatoes today – Rebecca loved her one – Jamie gave me back his one – i’m sure mid July is quite early for me to be harvesting them already. Had quite a few cucumbers already as well which is…
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Feeling Very Sad
I just dropped off Rebecca for two hours at her new school – and she didn’t want me to leave at all – not seen her that upset for a while. I’m feeling very sad about it – i’m absolutely sure she’ll be fine though. read more
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Fantastic Weekend
I’ve had a great weekend – I was looking forward to it after quite a hard week working. On Fri night Sarah was out, so I carried on working until midnight. I’ve got so much to do and learn at the moment I need every minute really. Saturday morning we were up early and after…
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All going on…..
Sometimes lots of little things seem to happen all at once – and start getting on top of you. That seems to be happening at the moment with us… Mum and Dad came up over the weekend which was very nice. They babysat for us on Friday night whilst we were at Pilch and Emma’s…
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Local Wildlife
We’ve been encountering quite a lot of wildlife in the back garden recently. There has always been plenty of birds there – including a black bird that is breeding for a second time next to our porch and some blue tits who have breeded twice this year. read more
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