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Mar 31
2007

Posted by richard

I read a BBC article this morning on April Fool’s jokes, especially the really famous one that Panorama pulled about spaghetti growing on trees. What a cracker that must have been, especially in that day when spaghetti wasn’t so common.

So it made me think about it for a while – where did April Fool’s jokes come from? What is the origin of the prank-filled day? Searching on Google for it (as you do) I found a couple of pages that caught my attention.

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Mar 31
2007

Posted by richard

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What an amazing picture eh?

And of all places, in St. Peter’s Basilica. Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I first saw it – talk about one of those moments when your beliefs are challenged.

Even the professionals are unsure what to think of it. It’s not every day you capture the supposed image of an angel on film.

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Mar 31
2007

Posted by richard

eh? That doesn’t include transporting any kind of reply back to me after two weeks. I mailed them back then about getting a british driver’s license when I already have an american one. I haven’t heard a thing. No reply. Not even a canned one.

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Mar 30
2007

Posted by richard

The boys went down for a job down southwest way the other day. I won’t write where or for who, but it was cider country. The last time they’d been they brought back some good scrumpy cider. For themselves.

This time, we ALL placed orders and they must have had 40 litres or so. I got my 5 litres and I have to say, it’s really worth it. Funnily enough the website for them is called . ;) How apropos! (and my pleasure to provide them a link – this stuff is awesome!)

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Mar 30
2007

Posted by richard

Browsing through various blogs as I tend to do occasionally (recently this has become less and less I admit), I found this one from Corey’s. Man what a laugh I had – here’s the start of it, go to his blog for the entire story:

I got this in an email and had to share:

In most of the United States, there is a policy of checking on any stalled vehicle on the highway when the temperatures drop down to single digits or below. About 3 AM, one very cold morning, Trooper Allan Nixon #658 responded to a call there was a car off the shoulder of the road outside Shattuck, Oklahoma. He located the car, stuck in deep snow, and with the engine still running. Pulling in behind the car with his emergency lights on, the Trooper walked to the driver’s door to find an older man passed out…

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    I had to think awhile about why they would want Single people. If their single, they're not getting any.... but ...
 

Mar 30
2007

Posted by richard

Here’s a good job for you: Durex needs some condom testers.

Hehe talk about a job with perks eh? Love the little quote that the BBC puts next to the images of the condoms: ‘Durex says the scheme has been very successful in France’ – you don’t say?!

And part of their article:

The condom maker wants a panel of 5,000 people who are single, married, or in couples to report their experiences of using its condoms and lubricants.

Yeah I bet they’ll report back. For more free condoms…

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    I was thinking about making a network here, since I have a laptop too, but I do most of my ...
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    If I ever get a router it will most likely be wireless. Especially for and Platform systems like PS2, PS3, ...
 

Mar 30
2007

Posted by richard

I wrote about this a week or so back.

I have a client who I was setting up a (wireless) network for. I bought a D-Link ADSL2+ modem for him, which worked admirably. The problem was the 3Com DSL router that I also purchased. Once it was connected, the computers could access the net for 30 minutes if that, then it simply stopped working.

Anyway after much fiddling he decided he wanted it gone. I don’t blame him.

I got another bit of hardware to replace it, a D-Link wireless router. I went to install it this afternoon. It slots in on top of the modem, and ran the CD, finds it, set up the network and tested the computers. They work well, very fast indeed. He was impressed.

I got the laptop, set it up, it worked wonderfully. In the house, through several buildings it admittedly had a low signal but it still worked. He knew it would be weak anyway, but still pleased nonetheless.

So the moral of this story is: always buy hardware from the same manufacturer – don’t mix and match.

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    Ain't life just Super Duper!? :D
 

Mar 29
2007

Posted by richard

You know that rain that is just between drizzling and real pouring rain? The kind that gets your head wet, makes you huddle deeper into your coat, and quickens your step up as it falls on you? Yeah that’s what we have tonight.

Just got in, shook my coat out, and oh yes found the gas bill on the floor. Great. £148 to pay out of my paycheque already…

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    We had a few foggy days like that last week. I think it looks kewel in the afternoon and it's still ...
 

Mar 28
2007

Posted by richard

Seems like we’re getting just a -little- bit of fog lately.

Woke up this morning, didn’t open the curtains. Turned on the TV after getting a shower, and they were talking about the weather, lots of fog on the east coast, particularly Lincolnshire. I opened the living room curtains and voila, fog in my front ‘garden’. I could barely see the cars parked in the street.

Fast forward to tonight. On the way back from the gym and it was foggy, rolling in over the hills, thick and getting thicker, thicker than this morning.

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    hi there, never heard of this before until today, im in process of trying to raise funds 4 a sports ...
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    i have got lots of bags of bottle tops the person i was collecting for as finished collecting them so ...
 

Mar 26
2007

Posted by richard

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Today a friend of mine asked me if I used plastic milk bottles. An odd question but when I answered he said could I save the green bottle tops (or another colour, I forget which). I said sure, but why? Well if he got 10,000 of them and gave them to the hospital they could get a wheelchair for someone who deserved it.

So I thought, wow what a good idea. How about getting the blogging community in the UK to help out? So as you see from the picture here’s my first one. I will be saving them from now on. Can you help out? I figured that if I get some responses to this, I’ll put a link to your blog from this post and we’ll keep a running total.

Thanks very much!

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