Archive for November, 2005
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
If you’re looking for a low cost function room, then the Standard Triumph Social club may be suitable. We used it last weekend to celebrate the christening of our daughter. The cost of booking the room was £50. One of the big advantages that kept the cost low is that they allowed us to provide […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
A mandatory 40MPH sign greeted me as I joined the M42 motorway on my daily commute to work this morning. It’s part of an £100M advanced scheme to improve the flow of traffic on a congested stretch of motorway, with the possibility of it being rolled out to other areas if successful. This is the […]
Posted in General, Tourism | 4 Comments »
Friday, November 25th, 2005
Google have a feature called sitemaps. The sitemap allow you to provide a list of all your webpages directly to google, which should mean that they are better at adding your website to the search engine. About Google Sitemaps The website includes details on how to create a sitemap using a python script generator. This […]
Posted in Computers, Linux, Web Design, Web Site | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 24th, 2005
It’s been a while between it’s release and me actually getting to watch this film. Whilst the trailers did look good, they were not enough to make me want to sit down and watch this over other films. Having now seen this I think it’s a great film, one of the best I’ve seen in […]
Posted in dvd, Reviews | Comments Off on DVD Review: Runaway Jury
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
We are ahead of the game for Christmas this year having already purchased almost all the presents we need for Christmas. The one thing we do still need to visit is a Christmas Fair, and we will probably visit at least two. They provide a great opportunity to buy some unique gifts and can be […]
Posted in Days Out, General | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
I’ve been reading the .Net magazine recently and encouraged by a special subscription offer I took out a subscription with the magazine. I received confirmation of the order and started to get my new magazine, but did not receive my free gift. After 2 issues I thought something may have been up and emailed Future […]
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
The latest Harry Potter film The Goblet of Fire was released last week. This is the fourth film to be released. Whilst my favourite book is still The Prisoner of Azkaban, this film has instantly become my favourite. There appears to be a logical progression in the films that each one appears to be targeted […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
One of the most useful things that we’ve bought for our baby is Techni-Ice (Chillerz). Tehni-Ice is like the freeze blocks that you use to keep food cold in a cold-box, but much better. I actually bought this over a year before my baby was born, and left it unused as I didn’t find an […]
Posted in Babies | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 11th, 2005
Adverts are used throughout the web to make money for the site owners, offset some of the costs of none-commercial sites. Whether this is good or bad can depend upon whether you own the website, or are a visitor. I include adverts on some of my webpages, so obviously I am not against them as […]
Posted in Computers, software, Web Design | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
It’s been a long time since I’ve bought groceries online. Now we have a baby I thought I’d give it another go to save having to go out through the rainy weather. We do most of our shopping at: Morrisons, Tesco and Asda. Morrisons don’t do online shopping so that gave the choice of Asda […]
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