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Just spent an hour or more trying to figure out how to reset the administration password on a Lacie backup network drive, the Lacie website was useless, eventually found a forum post by someone who had suffered the same ‘lost password’ issue, so incase it helps someone else – heres the ‘how to rest admin [...]

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Just had to have someone call to remove a massive wasps nest from inside the canopy over our front door, he said the next has probably been there for a few months, I cannot see how we missed it untill today, when all of a sudden there were thousands of wasps outside the front of [...]

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It seem that some local idiot posted a message on an anonymous forum page named "/b/" that he was going to visit St Aelreds School here in Newton today and harm people. They published a photo of themselves one of them brandishing a Gun, with a notesaying.. Tomorrow last day of School   /b/   [...]

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I need to find somewhere that sells conservatory gutter fittings to replace some broken fittings on my conservatory, nearest I can find are the ones for sale at the PVC Warehouse Will try them and see if they fit

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I must get the gallery system on the newton-le-willows website up and running over xmas, I turned it off when it started to error a few months ago, and just have not found the time to get it working again, but I will find time over the xmas break.

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Have lately been trying a new drug to get my psoriasis under control, psoriasis has plagued me now for about 15 years, most of the time I suffer with over 70% of my skin effected by psoriasis, I have probably spent around 8 months worth, or more, of the last 15 years as a hospital [...]

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This afternoon, I have thrown together a Gallery Latest entries Module, this is for installing as a module into Joomla, not as a gallery plugin into Sobi2, its not pretty code, but it seems to work ok, it was hacked together using parts from other components, the Sobi2 Vscroller Module, the Joomla latest News Module [...]

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Quite a few years ago, while confined to my bed with a serious back problem, and bored to the point that you would even read the instruction manual for a VCR, I was handed a nice thick book to read, 700 pages of story called ‘Hidden Empire, THE SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS’, I was captivated [...]

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Well, anyone that knows me, will be aware that I hate putting things political online, but the last few days I have been watching the news, and listening to the details of the proposed truckers fuel protests, and I have to wonder why its only the truckers, why private individuals everywhere, all vehicle owners do [...]

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I am glad to be able to say that my daughter has been selected to participate in the Oxford Access Scheme Ambassador Programme being run by Oxford University, she is one of 37 school children from her age group, from around the UK, apparently around 5000 children from different schools applied to join the scheme, [...]

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