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Hayley’s doing the Race For Life on the 11th June, so head on down here and make your donation!
https://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayleymurphy

We have one of these at work. It’s a WiFi-enabled bunny which lights up, wiggles its ears and plays tunes when people send it messages. It’s hooked up to a web service at http://www.nabaztag.com/ and also has an API which allows you to interact with it - so the other day I rigged it up to our monitoring systems at work… now it starts chattering away if we have any service problems… neat! Really want one of these myself - unfortunately they’re only available in France at the moment Update: they’re now available in the UK!

Been banging my head against the wall for the last few days trying to figure out why my Bittorrent downloads have suddenly become so slow. Turns out my ISP (Force9) has bandwidth-limited my P2P traffic because I racked up 60 gigs of transfers last month

Bandwidth limiting is probably a good solution to greedy users such as myself - still getting full speed HTTP so I can’t complain too much - the only thing that annoys me is the underhanded way in which they’ve applied it - previously was told that I had 100GB allowance per month, and this has changed without notice.

I’ll probably stick with them though - as they still have the best policies I’ve come across so far. Besides, in a few months our local exchange should be getting ADSL 2+, which means I can join Bethere.co.uk - 24 megs down, 1 meg up… and work is paying for it!

Just added the photos from St. Patrick’s Day (yes, a wee bit late I know) to the photo gallery. Funny stuff. Note to self - no more gurning…

http://www.shauny.org.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=23

Hope you had a good Christmas, and best wishes for the New Year. I had a great Christmas with Hayley and family, and can’t wait to see what the new year brings.

Mum got a digital camera recently and has just had one of her photos published on the Guardian snow photos gallery!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1674130,00.html
(look for Hadleigh Country Park)

You can download wallpaper-quality versions of the photo here: 1280×1024 pixels
1024×768 pixels

Had a housewarming party (finally) on Saturday - the theme was Kids TV and we watched a load of old 80s childrens TV programmes - Knightmare being the highlight for me!

Click here for photos. (Password required: email me if you want access)

Here’s a list of extensions I use regularly (for work and play) and are well worth a look at.

* Web Developer - great for debugging HTML/CSS, forms, etc.
* keyconfig - lets you remap your keyboard shortcuts.
* Retro Find - search within textareas/forms - the default search doesn’t work (still an outstanding bug as far as I know)
* Adblock - block all manner of annoying advertising really easily
* Greasemonkey - rewrite pages as they come into your browser using javascript - super powerful and geeky
* Platypus - edit pages visually and save the changes as a Greasemonkey script
* TinyURL Creator - creates shortcut urls
* Adsense Notifier - shows how much you’ve earned through Adsense in the bottom corner of your browser
* Autofill - automatically fill in HTML forms
* Stumbleupon - social bookmarking site
* Sage - lightweight RSS aggregator

Just installed a new spam filtering plugin - hopefully will get rid of that nasty spam.

Info - Spam Karma 2.0

Basically I’m trying to sell a copy of Act! Professional I have (unused - 1 user licence) which Dad bought for his business - I pointed out that it was pretty rubbish and developed a more useful CRM for him in MS Access. So I want to flog this box (which is worth over a hundred quid)

A couple of days ago I got this nice message through Ebay.

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