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Getting Ready for MEDC
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:52 PM

Today I sent off my speaker details stuff to Microsoft for my talk at MEDC in Las Vegas. It starts to get a bit real when you have a four page contract to read about your presentations.... I've been on the conference site looking at sessions. This is

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Driving Fun
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:31 PM

Ages ago I had an idea where we would provide people with a driver's eye view when they come to see us at Hull. It seems somebody else has had the same kind of idea: http://preview.local.live.com/

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HD TV?
Sunday, April 23, 2006 12:24 PM

Digital TV is great. We keep being told this. Loads of channels and fuzz free pictures. But the reality is not always the same. I've been watching the London Marathon on our telly, via our digital satellite channel. Now things like marathons give compression

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Vista Media Lookng Good
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:24 AM

So I got hold of the latest version of Vista and decided to upgrade my Media Centre PC with it.I must admit it has been quite a rewarding experience. It is much easier to install than the previous version , and the media centre experience is much better

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Laugh Like a Drain
Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:20 PM

Last night I was watching number one son play the BattleField2 demo on the XBOX 360. Wonderful game, I'm going to see if I can scrape together enough pennies to buy a copy. Anyhoo, the demo is keeping us busy at the moment. In one bit there is a broken

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Cheese and Pickles
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:01 AM

We now have two new family members. We got them some time back but I've just got around to posting. Apparently these are hamsters who can live together without eating each other. I do hope so. But they haven't got the hang of the wheel yet.

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Quality, Vegas Style
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:15 PM

I'm presently feeling a bit guilty. In a few weeks time the university is being visited by an audit team. Every university gets these now and then, and they randomly pick on courses to take a look at. One of the items they are considering is a course

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Back with a Whack
Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:56 AM

Not sure why, but I kind of dropped out of the habit of posting on the Spoke for a while. Sorry people. I'm back now and I've put up some archive stuff that really should have been here in the first place. More later, and I love you all really....

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XBOX 360 Free Fun
Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:43 PM

We spent the afternoon playing brand new games on the XBOX 360. Three brand new games. Cost to us? Not a bean. Because we have XBOX Live and a fairly fast broadband connection we were able to get hold of free downloads of Tomb Raider, Battlefield 2 and

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How can Oblivion be such fun?
Sunday, April 02, 2006 7:10 PM

Couldn't resist getting Elder Scrolls 4 (Oblivion) yesterday. Not really my kind of game. Except that it might be. Number one son has been playing it for a few hours and I've been watching. It really is a game that puts you in a very big somewhere else.

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