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Just How Stupid Is The KPN?
OK, it’s a rhetorical question, but after my recent trials and tribulations with the moving of my DSL line, I wonder if the collective neurons of the entire administrative staff could raise a glimmer from a twenty watt light-bulb. What’s … Continue reading
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Wheel Meet Again
Audi Centrum Amsterdam have been kind enough to arrange a loan car for us whilst we await the manufacture and administration of our own. I took two trams and the metro down to station Bijlmer today to pick it up. … Continue reading
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Tour Comes To Limburg
The 93rd Tour de France is coming to The Netherlands in 2006. The fourth stage will see the riders travel from the very northern tip of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, to Valkenburg in the province of Limburg. It’s a flat 216 km stage, … Continue reading
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We Miss Our TiVo
Having had UPC‘s digital cable TV up and running for a few days now, I feel able to make a few comments about it. Plus points: Cheap: the first six months of basic digital service are free. After that, the … Continue reading
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Home, Sweet Home
Thanks to the Oatleymobile, we and all of our luggage made it intact to Washington Dulles airport and onto the plane. It was very hard to say goodbye; even harder to say it to the children earlier in the day … Continue reading
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