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I have been using stumble upon to find random things on the internet for a while - it is quite good - take a look here

2006 10 20 Ben Comments (0)

Too many computer games, what to play….

I seem to have far too wide a choice of games that I’m addicted too at present, which is odd as for ages I have nothing I really wanted to play!
First up we have Kingdom Hearts 2, the original was great fun and the sequel is even better (if a bit slow at the start). […]

2006 10 11 Ben Comments (0)

Force 9 (Part of Plusnet)

I have been a happy customer of Force 9 since 2003. Until recently they provided a reliable and efficent adsl service. They offered some nice (rare) features such as static IP and console access to the web hosting as well as doing the basics well.
This all changed at the beginning of August when they ‘upgraded’ […]

2006 09 20 Ben Comments (0)

Cattery’s near High Wycombe

We have recently put our cats in two catteries for various holidays and seeing as I had a lot of trouble finding anything about them I thought I would write some notes.
We used Raynhill Cattery in September 2006 for a week. The cattery is off Hammersley Lane and has space for a dozen or so […]

2006 09 17 Ben Comments (0)

Holiday in cornwall

We decided to have a week away in Cornwall last week and had lots of fun.
We stayed at Fox Park Farm cottages near bodmin. The cottage was ok, if a bit small. It was billed as sleeping 4/6 people with 3 of us staying it was full enough. Also the decor/equipment was not up to […]

2006 09 17 Ben Comments (0)

Blogging from writely.com

I have discovered I can write Blog entries in writely and then publish them via XML-RPC to my wordpress blog.
This does seem quite cool, as writely editor is far more advanced than wordpress allows.
However there are a load of downsides

The title didn’t get set
The categories aren’t set.

Nice idea though!

2006 08 20 Ben Comments (0)

Hello wordpress world!

I have decided to finally upgrade the blogging software I have to wordpress (from Lifetype). This is because of the amount of SPAM I get on lifetype, hopefully this should be better.
The old blog is still here at http://www.gidley.co.uk/plog/. I have used wget to get a static HTML copy of it so that I can […]

2006 08 02 Ben Comments (0)