“I have so much in common with people of faith. We only disagree on the existence of 1 out of 3000 gods. They’re nearly as atheist as I am “ Ricky Gervais We are all born atheist. We are all taught the religious belief system of our parents or family members. If you are born …

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Boris the Landrover has broken down one final time. This mornings refusal to start (again!!!) was the (yet another!!!) final straw! NOTE ADDED MAY 2014: A few people have asked me how I get him to start each time. It’s simple, but very annoying, embarrassing and just plain irritating. Simply pop the bonnet (American translation …

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You must have been sleeping under a rock for the last ten years. It’s a comedy that is at times moving, often funny and nearly always darkly disturbing. It makes me LOL with a big ELL Oh ELL. Critically acclaimed… a cult following, the bizarre BBC television series The League of Gentlemen is to sitcoms …

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Telly: The Worst Week of My Life Only one week to go before the marriage of Howard and Mel which quickly escalates into the week from Hell. The series follows the bumbling Howard as he lurches from one appallingly embarrassing disaster to the next in the week leading up to his wedding. A fairly typical …

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I found this by accident and it’s yet another Telly series which reminds by just how funny and irreverent English TV can be. Plebs is based in Rome at the time of the Roman British invasion – an easy play on the Latin word ‘plebeians’ — and if you don’t know what that word means …

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Free Bullworker Wallchart – Isometric Exercise Training Planner What Is the Bullworker? The Bullworker is an exercise device that’s used for isometric exercise. It features spring-loaded, contracting cylinders and users push inward on both ends of the device to work the arm muscles. It has strap down the side which expand the workout to include …

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Last week was an exciting one… driving from San Francisco to Las Vegas on Friday (including the obligatory but less than amusing Boris Breakdown)… packing and loading my moving truck on Saturday/Sunday and then driving across country to my new home here at Folly Beach, South Carolina. I’ve moved to Folly for the next six …

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Death of a Landrover LR3 Well, not really the death, lets call it ‘moving over to the other side’. Whatever we call it, Boris won’t be haunting me any more. The final straw was breaking down on Christmas Day! Bloody useless thing!!! So, my New Years resolution is to admit defeat and get a reliable …

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In the never ending quest to break down in every state of the United States of America, Boris the Land Rover most recently refused to run while visiting the beautiful wine regions of California. So, it’s a balmy November day and driving up to California’s wine country should be a fun time right? #WRONG Not …

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So, I emigrated over here to the New World (as my redcoat forebears used to call it) five years ago. During this time I’ve been lucky enough to travel all over America, driven coast to coast twice, lived in various States and met many wonderful people. The weather is fantastic and life is good… I …

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What Software does every IBM i Software Developer need? Last week I was asked to help the Network Team to create a pc-image for a new windows rollout to refresh the software builds for the IBM i Developers and other IT Techies. It’s an exciting time at my client’s site… with the haggle looking flustered …

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GUNNAR RPG – excellent for RPG Programmers My first memories of wearing glasses were from my pre-teens; my Mum taking me down the local opticians to collect my big brown plastic NHS specs. Some seriously horrible, big brown plastic things. This led to years of school ground taunting being called a speccy-four-eyes and finally refusing …

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