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Only The Good Die Young…
…so it should come as no surprise that I’m still around. I now have some decidedly odd sensations in my crotch, as if a small rodent is burrowing away down there. Hardly surprising, I suppose, after some bloke has been … Continue reading
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Under The Knife
The old groin goes under the surgeon’s scalpel in just a few hours. I have to be at the hospital at 07:30, so I have a taxi picking me up at 06:50. The idea of a 06:30 wake-up is almost … Continue reading
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The Joy Of Discovery
There’s so much computer and entertainment technology to keep track of these days that there will always be developments that slip through the cracks and remain unbeknownst to one. One such development that has passed me by unnoticed until now … Continue reading
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New NAS
Although it seems not so very long ago that I purchased our ReadyNAS NV+ with 2.6 Tb of usable disc space (4 Tb before Netgear’s proprietary X-RAID is applied to the disc array), it’s been hovering around the 80% consumed … Continue reading
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From Snow To Snow
We left the US yesterday in ice-cold temperatures and with several centimetres of snow lining the ground. The unhelpful dickhead driver of the bus that took us from Providence to Boston didn’t stop at terminal A of the airport, so … Continue reading
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