May 20th, 2010

All those unwanted phone calls

I seem to have had an increase in unwanted marketing calls recently, mostly from automated messages telling me I can cancel all my debts if I press 2 on my phone (even though I’m normally listening to an naswerphone message).  Some even say “this is not a marketing call” yet when you call them back their automated messagse says it WAS  a marketing call.  So even they can’t make up their minds.

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January 31st, 2010

Computer Challenges

Just when I thought it was all getng better as January disappears and a new month comes along, I come home from the radio today to find my computer has tried to reboot but been haled by n error that says it can’t find nything to boot from.  My first reaction as my hard drive had done wrong, but unplugging my externl hard drives and turning off my printr alloed it to boot.  Just when I thought it was fixed, I decided to restart and came up against the same thing again and the  error “ntldr is missing”

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January 23rd, 2010

The challenges of January 2010

It’s 23 January 2010 – which means it’s a month since Christmas. January
has certainly been a challenge for many with the large amounts of snow seen
over much of Britain. Once again the question was asked why is the UK so
useless at dealing with snow? Other countries seem to cope much better.
The answer of course is we are just not used to it.

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