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Today I decided to give my blog a much needed face lift and because I usually spend more time designing layouts for sites other than my own personal site, I decided to grab a template from the Wordpress Theme Viewer site.
I spent ages trying to find a theme I liked and eventually found one called [...]

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While in an unsettled state during October 2007, I found myself without a computer and the internet for a while.
I needed something to occupy my mind, so Gurgi managed to get me some watercolour paints, a few brushes and some textured paper from Kmart.
We became members of the local library and so I borrowed a [...]

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…from 100 years of records, South Australia had a real scorcher.

Monday 31st December 2007 saw midday temperatures peak to 41.6°C by 4pm and by midnight, temperatures were around 32.7°C.
Data from the Australia Bureau of Meteorology - Adelaide, South Australia December 2007 Daily Weather Observations.
This is my 1st Australian summer and being English, the whole Xmas [...]

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Well my blog has kinda been sporadically hosted on and off the internet since we arrived in Australia back in April 2007 and finally I have found a professional web host to put it while I don’t have my own servers.
With thanks to Daniel “Fremen” Llewellyn, www.Gurgi-Girl.net and www.Deadpan110.com are both now hosted with XYZ [...]

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My blog is once again back online thanks to the FREE Community Services provided by NIPL. Just like my own services that were provided on The IND-Network Cluster by IND-Web.com, NIPL uses a ‘pay what you feel’ approach that relies on donations to help fund the server.
Free Community is a collection of people and services [...]

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 A picture of our baby daughter at 20 minutes old.We made it to Australia on the 21st April 2007 after leaving the UK behind along with my servers, our belongings and our friends on the 19th April 2007.The reason for this hasty move 1/2 way around the world… The expected birth of our daughter and [...]

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Its kinda sad to see it happen, but it is a huge incentive to make it better when we get to Australia.
My 4 IBM Netfinity 5000 servers (shown bottom of pic) cost me £750 from eBay a few years ago - I payed extra to have their memory and processors upgraded so each server had [...]

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…Were f00kin off!!
Today Gurgi-Girl and myself officially got our tickets to Australia and we leave for our new life on April 19th, 2007!
Bring it on!!!
We have just over 2 1/2 weeks to sort out what we are taking, what we are selling and what we are throwing away or donating to charity.
I have been busying [...]

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Well, I almost missed it… …and I definitely didn’t realise it had been 4 years since I started hosting services on The IND-Network Cluster!
It has been a very educational experience providing services for the general public and its something I plan to continue to do - even though my partner Gurgi-Girl and myself are [...]

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A friend of mine got himself a new laptop for Xmas, quite a nice one at a good price and after a couple of months of running Windows XP on his 1.4Ghz (or something) on his CPU, he noticed things getting painfully slow.
His DVD playback was noticeably suffering with frames occasionally skipping and the sound [...]

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