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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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In the Summer of 2006 my Children Sarah & Thomas, got invites to the ‘Party at the Palace’, this was at Buckingham Palace, London, and was hosted by the Queen for her 80th Birthday, and in celebration of Children’s Literature My daughter was invited onto the ‘This Morning’ TV Show for a ‘Make-Over’ especially for [...]

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In recent months I have been immersed with some real life stuffs, and following some of my other than www interests. Along with another local antiquarian Bob Heyes, and with the help of local Archaeologist and TV Presenter Mark Olly alnig with numerous Volunteers, we have been instrumental in the discovery of a Neolithic Burial [...]

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Well, its taken me years to get round to putting anything at all on this domain, and even now, I still do not know what’s going to be here. I made some categories, Blog Stuff, LOcal Stuff, Web Stuff and Pano Stuff, anything I write must fit into one. .. maybe I should add Family [...]

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Fot the last week my server seems to have been hassled by hackers, they most always seem to be using the same system, cross site scripting, and luckily they havn’t managed to get into the system, but what a waste of time it is for me, having to keep everything upto-date just to stop these [...]

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Its been ages since I last posted anything, no real reason why, just didnt think to. I did manage to transfer the whole of my Newton-le-Willows website into Joomla, lost a few things but otherwise the whole thing went ok At first I setup the forums as smf joomlaboard forums, but they just never seemed [...]

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Today has been one of those days, firstly i didnt feel too great, so that wasn’t good, but then just as I sat at the keyboard to do my morning email check, i felt a drip of water on the keys, looked up to see that we have developed a leak in the roof overnight, [...]

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Home at last, still very sore, but being home is cool, will be on crutches for approx 6 weeks, not supposed to drive for a few months, should give me time to get some of the many code projects i have hidden away to get completed. Have decided I am going to convert the Newton [...]

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