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Website re-designed (yet again)

It wasn’t that long ago that I changed the overall look and style of my website (read Website re-designed 8th Jan 2008) and 19 days later, I change my site yet again.
I really liked the overall look and feel of the Green Light 1.1 theme I used for WordPress but I did run across a [...]

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Created on: Sunday, January 27th, 2008 - 6:35 pm
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A tribute to our good friends, Lee and Tiff

Don’t send a lame Starring You! eCard. Try JibJab Sendables!
It wont be long now until our good friends, Lee and Tiff come and stay with us in South Australia…So far they have travelled around Australia and New Zealand and had some pretty amazing adventures… …So this eCard is for both of them.

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Created on: Friday, January 18th, 2008 - 7:10 pm
Last Modified: Friday, January 25th, 2008
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Website re-designed

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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Created on: Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 - 2:39 am
Last Modified: Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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1st Attempt at Watercolour Paintings

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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Created on: Monday, January 7th, 2008 - 12:26 am
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Hottest New Years Eve…

…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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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 - 5:50 pm
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My blog finally back online… (again)

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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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Saturday, December 29th, 2007 - 1:44 pm
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Hosting banner ads for argo.nipl.net

As an active member of the NIPL community, I have been working along side the administrators to come up with solutions to raise money for the continued use of server ‘argo’.
A cut down version of the ‘whap‘ project hosted on sourceforge has been implemented across the webserver in an effort to raise the needed cash.
For [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Monday, July 23rd, 2007 - 7:15 am
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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Tommee Tippee - Ultimate Reassurance Monitor

With the birth of our daughter ‘Callia’, came the purchase of gadgets and gismos to assist us in the healthy upbringing of our daughter.
We had decided on getting a baby monitor for our piece of mind, comfort in the knowledge that when our daughter goes to sleep - we will be able to hear her [...]

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Created on: Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 - 3:17 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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New web hosting account

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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Created on: Friday, June 22nd, 2007 - 3:10 am
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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Australia and the Birth of our Daughter

 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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Created on: Sunday, May 27th, 2007 - 6:37 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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