Our Philosophy of Blogging: To write what we will in whatever way we choose, without fear of regret. Our meanderings may wander 'erratically' at times, and there is certainly no certainty we may not change our mind, but one thing is absolute, we will always be honest to ourselves...
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The bigger the company, the bigger the problems

Is it just me or do you find that dealing with big companies generally means less service, longer phone calls and more hassles? I recently purchased a new car and with the deal came 6-months free comprehensive insurance. Excellent, I thought to myself, that’s more money saved. I have had no accidents in that 6 [...]

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Slice and dice

As part of Anja’s ongoing analysis of her illness, the next step after the brochoscopy and CT scan, was to undergo a further scan known as a PET scan. PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography. This scan is more intensive and is done in order to take a deeper look at what is happening [...]

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Digsby

Following on from my previous post where I took a look at social networking and how interaction has changed on the Internet over the years, I came across a few programs which tie in chat programs, email and social networking in one neat package. I used Trillian years back, and cannot remember why exactly, but [...]

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This SOCIAL thing

When I first started out with computing, I used to connect to the Internet using dail-up technology and with a 1200 baud modem. I vividly remember the exact tone it made and the screams of joy I cried when the connection actually made it through and I was on the Internet! Moved on through 9600 [...]

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Diabetes in a sweet world

So, like millions of others, I am a diabetic. Type 2, or as so many like to call it - the lifestyle disease. People say we become diabetics because we eat the wrong foods, don’t do anough exercise and are generally big, fat slobs. Idiots! I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 35 years [...]

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Colours

Colour [or 'color' for those of USA persuasion]: a quality which objects have, and which can be seen, only when light falls on them. No matter where you look, you see colour! Wars have been waged over them and others play with them. They bring fear, happiness, sorrow and all the myriad of other emotions [...]

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DEATH: The Final Frontier

To boldly go where everyone has gone before…
Right now, with my wife’s length of time left on this planet very uncertain [but ultimately very brief], we have both discussed the whole package that dying brings - the pain beforehand, our quality of life, and the moment of death itself. As mentioned before, we are realists [...]

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Run, Run, Run

Warning: long [and probably boring] post
For anyone who enjoys running, you will know the exhilirating feeling that it provides. For me, sprinting was my first love and as a child I used to run to school, run back home [a good 5 miles in some instances] and I ran for the sheer enjoyment it [...]

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Gee Mail!

Once upon an eon ago, I used a webmail product called Hotmail. Truth be told, I think I still have an account or 50 in place, but none of them are ever used. I have also used Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, a work-based Outlook Web Access [OWA] and numerous other email options. But one stands out [...]