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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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Saturday evening we went to a family party, It was a Dunbar event, a surprise party for my wife’s Uncle Peter Dunbar, who is visiting from Australia, had a really good time, and the music was provided by Peters brother, Terry Dunbar, Singing and playing guitar with his pal Colin Guthrie on guitar.

I will put [...]

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I am not normally superstitious, I have never been someone to worry that its Friday 13th, but yesterday, it was that day, and yesterday I had loads of hassle and bad luck, so maybe there is something in this superstition lark after all..

One of my canon lenses seems to have failed, the internal motor which [...]

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I really do not know why, but Yahoo’s search bots have been hammering my server for the last 24 hours, so much so, pointlessly, and taking no notice at all of the robot.txt that i have just added the who class c to iptable’s and banned the lot of them.
Why the hell Yahoo seem to [...]

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