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March 17, 2011

Ceanna’s Birthday

Filed under: Greyhounds — William_T_Goodall @ 21:26

Ceanna is nine today. She had some ham.

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March 10, 2011

Pip & Ceanna napping

Filed under: Greyhounds — William_T_Goodall @ 21:03

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February 23, 2011

The Killing

Filed under: Television — William_T_Goodall @ 16:45

The Killing on BBC4 is the best thing on UK TV at the moment.

February 22, 2011

ADSL 2+ ii

Filed under: IT — William_T_Goodall @ 11:27

And today:

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Well the Up Speed is a lot better anyway 🙂

February 21, 2011

ADSL upgrade

Filed under: IT — William_T_Goodall @ 22:40

is due to happen tomorrow. Here’s what I’m getting today:

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February 3, 2011

Backing up

Filed under: Apple,IT — William_T_Goodall @ 21:43

an old iBook after restoring it from Time Machine and upgrading to OS X 10.5.

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Pip looking

Filed under: Greyhounds — William_T_Goodall @ 21:41

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Yogurt

Filed under: Food & Drink — William_T_Goodall @ 21:40

Making yogurt the simple way.

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January 17, 2011

New Operator Chair

Filed under: IT,Unboxing — William_T_Goodall @ 15:19

My old chair was manufactured in 1997 (it says so on the inspection label pasted under the seat) and I must have had it since not long after that. The padding on the seat had compressed and the gas lift was sticking. Time for a replacement 🙂

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January 11, 2011

DrayTek Vigor2710n

Filed under: IT,Unboxing — William_T_Goodall @ 16:33

My ISP recently notified me that my ADSL was getting a free upgrade to ADLS2+ sometime between February and April. This was good news apart from the fact that my existing modem/router was so old that it didn’t do ADSL2+ 🙁 It was a DrayTek 2600We that had been running pretty much 24/7 without problems since November 2002 when I first got ADSL. It also only supported WEP on the wireless LAN so that was a bit obsolete.

Today my new modem/router/firewall/wireless access point arrived and was quickly installed ready for my line upgrade.

Big box.


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Littler box inside.

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Neat and tidy. Template for drilling holes for wall-mounting.

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Curvy.

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Screws and plugs for wallmounting and a pad of DrayTek post-its included.

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Light compact switching power supply.

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Set up and running. Now I get wireless on the other side of the house too 🙂

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