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SquirrelSave gets top marks at Expert Reviews..
As testament to the hard work that goes on at Memset, we’ve just got top marks (Best Buy) at Expert Reviews for our online backup service, SquirrelSave. We’ll be releasing an overhauled client for...
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Imagineer Systems win Academy Award for Mocha
My former colleagues at Imagineer Systems, Dr. Philip McLauchlan, Allan Jaenicke, John–Paul Smith and Ross Shain have just picked up an Academy Award for Mocha, their planar tracking and rotoscoping...
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The Secret Service
Looks like Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s The Secret Service (just look at that cast list – just look!) is shooting mere yards away from where I work. Update (1st...
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Remember, remember, the 1st of Movember
Update: I failed. Absent-mindedly shaved it off a few days ago. Bah. Next year? Luckily nobody pledged at the time.Oh dear. So I’m actually going to do it.I’m going to grow a ‘tache for the month of...
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NOW TV Box – a cheap way of getting Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic, but with...
Update: I’ve since upgraded to a Roku 3. You can read all about it here.As I’m about to put my Apple TV and LG BP630 Blu-Ray on eBay having replaced them with the PS3, I decided to fork out £9.99 on...
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The dangers of easy-to-manage web hosting
Unfortunately I got into a bit of an argument with somebody today about the management of their cPanel server. As a sysadmin of over 17 years – starting my career by setting up an ISP from scratch...
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The Duck’s Speech
(Cue Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, 2nd movement (allegretto))Wow. What a year. They say 13 is unlucky for some, and in many ways this has been the case for me and my family. Or least former family. If...
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The Power of Love
Last night I came home around 17:30 to find that most of the houses along my street were in complete darkness. We had suffered a power cut.It turns out, having called the UK PowerNet, that a fault had...
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Retro computing!
Christmas is a time for revisiting the past. One only has to see all those women out and about wearing their big Christmas jumpers with leggings, and to listen endlessly to all the Christmas pop music...
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I’ve got a brand new combination microwave..
.. and I’ll give you a beep. For years I’ve been without a microwave. Really never needed one, or so I thought.When I was married we had a microwave in the first flat that we rented, then there was a...
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Rocking the Roku, but LOVEFiLM doesn’t feel like partying
While I have mentioned that the PS3 is an excellent all-round multimedia device, the downside is that it is hard drive based and therefore takes a while to boot up and get going, etc. And to get the...
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Goldilocks not happy with Costa porridge..
As spotted this morning during my daily consumption of mocha.
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Old York, Old York, it’s a helluva town..
Stresses at work and that I’ve not had a proper holiday away from the house for over a year saw me heading off to York last Thursday for a couple of days holiday.I decided to treat myself to East...
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I miss you, mum..
Fourteen years ago I lost my mum. She was 61. I remember everything about that day. I won’t go into too much detail, but what I thought would see her come back from hospital never happened.On that day...
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Star picket fence!
Back around 1997, just before Stargate SG-1 reached the airwaves, I dropped an email to Centropolis Entertainment (Roland Emmerich’s production company) to ask if David Arnold was likely to return to...
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Walkies..
With apologies to those that read that blog via Feedly or some other RSS/Atom feed; I was playing with Runkeeper’s activity sharing system and hadn’t realised that the WordPress plugin had published...
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Happy 30th birthday, Amstrad CPC 464!
I remember with great fondness when I got an Amstrad CPC 464 for Christmas. It was the biggest (and most expensive) Christmas present I had ever received. It felt like a proper computer what with its...
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Pit stop: Stig’s downtime..
.. is performing popular musical numbers with an umbrella.Yes, that really is the man himself, and yes, that really is a red umbrella. Furthermore, something tells me that the star in the reasonably...
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A load of old bells: cyclists and canal pathways
I do so enjoy my daily power[1] walks along the Basingstoke canal from St. Johns to Woking.I recently started taking a there and back again approach in that I’d leave at 7:30am for Woking station and...
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Brain Drain on the Train
I have absolutely no idea why reasonable and intelligent people turn into utter morons when it comes to commuting by train. These people who are silly, selfish, boorish, idiotic, and completely without...
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