Archive for the 'Personal' Category
Toshiba Tecra A2 laptop
We recently purchased a Toshiba Tecra A2 laptop. It is a Pentium M 715, with Windows XP Pro. The chip speed is 1.5GHz for those that are not familiar with Intel’s new number system. It has 512MB (64MB shared with Video), 15″T-XGA screen, 60GB HDD, DVD Super Multi drive, 802.11b/g. This last item is the [...]
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First look at my Legend PVR
I bought Legend PVR from DVR’s Direct recently. This is one of those amazing devices that changes your life. Similar to a TiVo that is available in the US, a PVR is simply a video recorder that allows you to pause live TV. Instead of using a Video Cassette though, it uses a HDD [...]
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The Missing Lunchbox
The most amazing thing happened today. I had the local newspaper out searching for my daughters lunch box.
While getting ready for school/work today, my youngest daughter packed her lunch into a “spare” lunch box we have, so I questioned her about where her lunch box was. She was defensive as I would expect, and said [...]
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Don’t cry because it’s over
Don’t cry because it’s over;
Smile because it happened
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Losing Weight
Reading through my blog list, Mel said she was getting smaller and that reminded me to say I’ve now lost 16Kg in 25 weeks. This get me half way to my goal of losing 32Kg.
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One Year Old
Well it has now been one year since I started this blog, and I must admit there have been some hard times and good times.
The hard times mostly related to experimenting with design, layout and trying to get CSS to jump through some of the hoops I needed it to.
The good parts have been having [...]
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Weight loss
Well today I can announce that both my wife and I continue to be successful with our weight loss goals.I can say without implying who is heaviest or has lost the most that both of us have not only reduced our weight below 100Kg, but we have also lost over 10Kg each. Just think to [...]
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Mastercard Moment
My children all have Bratz dolls now and I had one of those Mastercard moments today. The ad would go something like this.Barbie Dolls… $300.00Star Wars Figures… $200.00Fisher Price dolls house… $100.00Bratz Dolls… $50.00Storage cubes for the above toys $20.00 each.Watching as all the dolls/figures are dumped on the floor so the Bratz can use [...]
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Weight Loss
Well now after 10 weeks of having Lite ‘n Easy to loose weight I can so I am finally getting to the hard part. In my first week I didn’t loose any weight but then every week after I did, up until this week. To date I have lost 9 kilograms, which I feel is [...]
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The Ring to Rule them All
The Ring to Rule them all.Well the ring they will get married with at least. Matthew sent me a photo of his ring.
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