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A blog about photography and other things
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A visit to Knebworth House

28 June 20101 March 2023

This post describes a visit to Knebworth house which we took as a family visit Sunday 27th June 2010. We choose that day because it…

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Development

Using Zend Framework ACL and Auth to control access

13 January 20101 March 2023

I’ve recently started using the Zend framework components to produce a site I’m working on and thought I’d document how I’ve tied the Acl and…

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Reviews

Panasonic HDC-HS9 EB HD Camcorder user review.

22 February 20091 March 2023

This post describes my impressions of the Panasonic HDC-HS9 digital camcorder, which we bought after we lost a valuable recording on our old DV Tape…

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Blogging

Dealing with unwanted Credit card offers

21 February 20091 March 2023

We aren’t so plagued as we used to be, which is probably a sign of the global downturn, but we used to get about 5…

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Reviews

User review of Pioneer DCS-575 DVD home cinema system

18 February 20091 March 2023

We bought a pioneer DCS-575 Home cinema system to go with the Samsung LE40A656 40 inch LCD Television which we bought in July 2008. We…

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Linux

Compaq/HP 8710W Laptop running Ubuntu Linux

17 February 20091 March 2023

This short post is to answer a question potential Compaq/HP 8710W owners may be asking. Just in case it’s useful to anyone who may be…

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Reviews

Samsung LE40A656 LCD TV

17 February 20091 March 2023

This short post describes my experiences of the Samsung LE40A656 LCD TV. We bought a Samsung LE40A656 40″ LCD TVs about 7 months ago and…

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Linux

Migrating Linux Distribution

15 February 200914 March 2023

I’ve been using Gentoo Linux for about the last 5 years and I’ve generally been quite happy with it, but over the last few months…

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Development | Linux

Unix Timestamp Conversion

15 February 200914 March 2023

I use unix timestamps to store dates in databases because I find it an easy way to do maths with the dates. One drawback of…

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