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Recover your iPhone

February 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I tried to jailbreak my iPhone 3G earlier. No go. Not sure why, it just looped at the Apple logo while the software, pwnage, declared happily all was well. It wasn’t well. So now what. After a google I found some easy to follow instructions on how to recover your iPhone and get it working [...]

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20 Ways to Attack Shyness

January 9th, 2009 · No Comments

I used to be more shy than I am now, it’s pretty rare that I appear shy these days. As a kid it would have been good to have the internet and go through some methods of beating shyness. If you are shy, it can be overcome.
1. Understand Your Shyness
2. Turning Self Consciousness into [...]

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CafePress Alternatives? Sell Your Designs Online

July 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Want to design your own T-Shirts? Do you want to know where is the best place to sell your designs online? Everyone knows about CafePress, the company that succeeded in making print on demand (POD) a viable business for web users. The returns when you use CafePress are small to non-existent, so what alternatives exist?

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The end of the age of plenty

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve reached the end of the world of plenty. When the world had lots of oil, food, copper and other natural resources. Yes, this is the end.
Over the next 30 years humanity will have to learn new tricks. I know that modern society is entrenched, we believe that our society is immobile. That this is [...]

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Where the leylines led

June 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Interest piece on ley lines on Fortean Times, it’s long but just about worth ploughing through as it contains some good snippits. A better editor on this would have helped.
My great grandfather lived on a farm out in Bradwall, Sandbach, England. His fields used to align with hills and circles appeared every year in the [...]

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Zeppelin plus biplanes plus steamer equal yay

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Oh airships, why did you never become the default way to travel? Oh, yeah, explosions.
I get the feeling that if this had gone through we’d have been seeing a lot more of those explosions …
Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships
CONVINCED that battle fleets of the future will require the aid of rigid [...]

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The Security Mindset

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Security is what I do, it’s how I earn my living – and it is odd. You end up thinking about the world in a completely different way to other people. I’ve walked into meetings before now and asked questions that no-one else has asked during the whole lifecycle of the meeting. It’s caused more [...]

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De-Stress in Mere Minutes

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m a huge stress bunny. I carry my stress with me and in me (in my shoulders!) and have a hard time letting it go. It’s just who I am. So I’m coming up with ways to de-stress and these suggestions are useful:
In the shower
Face the water, letting it cascade onto your head. Take [...]

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