Got a new phone delivered today – the Sony Ericsson W850i. It’s going straight back tomorrow. After putting the battery in and leaving it on charge I went to then put my SIM card in to get started. Only the battery cover is completely stuck and refuses to move even after ramming screwdrivers in it. [...]

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I was privileged to be invited to the first test flights of Matthew’s helicopter. I couldn’t resist taking the camera along…and be sure to read the full story for exclusive video footage of the crash!

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It’s one thing getting a call to a 9 year old server refusing to start, but quite another when you discover it has 9 years of dust on it. From the pictures below is there any wonder it didn’t work. The answer is you virtualise it

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Yippee – i’ve won a copy of Vista Ultimate from one of Microsoft’s launch competitions. Not quite as excited as I should be, since I already have 10 copies of Vista Business edition and have been using Vista for several months now. Oh well, never mind. UPDATE: Just realised that it is worth £300, so  [...]

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Microsoft have finally gotten around to sending me a big bundle of software again including 10 copies each of Windows Vista and Office 2007. After spending half a day messing, both Sonia and I are now running these full versions on desktop computers. Laptops will be sticking with Windows XP for now as they just [...]

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New office is great, but still not producing the required productivity. I reckon what we need is some new speakers. So that’s what we got, a nice set of I-Trigue speakers from Creative Labs

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The quest for decent coffee at home has meant two new toys added to the kitchen toda. First up is the Krups GVX2 coffee bean grinder. After spending £50 on a grinder, I was quick to stop the helpful lady in Starbucks offering to grind my coffee beans for me. With 17 grinding settings the [...]

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Not wanting to be in the slightest technical about Windows XP 64-bit I could simply say don’t bother installing it. After messing around for what now seems like days installing XP 64-bit on a brand new machine, it is now running back on ye-olde 32-bit. Moral: Be very sure that whatever you are putting in [...]

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Just taken delivery of about £20,000 worth of software from Microsoft. My annual gift from them for being a Microsoft Partner. I can now waste even more time fiddling around with some of their new stuff.

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