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Posted by richardb at Thursday 21 July 2005 | Comments (1)

Now I would say that the company I work for is really good to its employees, really it is. It's also in the top five of its class in the World, so it's big and these two points are usually in contention, yet the company really do try and focus on the employee despite their size. For instance I'm allowed flexi-time to work around seeing movies (although there aren't that many premieres or screenings in Edinburgh, plus I'm allowed to work from home from time to time. However, there's a big problem with working from home....

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I'm back!...Almost

Posted by richardb at Wednesday 20 July 2005 | Comments (0)

You wouldn't have realised most likely, but I've been away. I've moved hosts...well...twice. The first move was a complete disaster and the second move was really pretty good. That's where I'm at now and I've nothing but praise for them. Reviews will follow, but here's the gist....

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Computer failure!

Posted by richardb at Tuesday 5 July 2005 | Comments (9)

Damn computers! Sometime ago I had the misfortune to be distracted while I was powering down my PC and in a rush to head out the door and I powered off before Windows had finished saving my profile data...that was my profile corrupted. So ensued a lengthy recovery and a decision to backup everything. The day after I found the CD to operate the USB DVD Drive I was going to use for the backup, not only did The Movie Blog site go down, but my Hard Drive decided not to work anymore, and I mean hardware wise decided not...

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24 Hour Montain Bike Race

Posted by richardb at Friday 1 July 2005 | Comments (2)

It's strange because part of me is excited, and part of me is totally dreading this, but I've gone and signed up for a twenty four hour mountain bike team race. Having done this once before a good few years ago, you'd have thought I'd have learnt my lesson, but I haven't....

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...for solar powered streetlamps

Posted by richardb at Friday 1 July 2005 | Comments (0)

Why don't streetlamps follow the recent trend of parking meters (particularly in Edinburgh), put a solar panel on the top of the lamp and either have storage batteries in the pole itself or allow it to feed back into the grid. Can you imagine the power generated from a panel on every single streetlamp?...

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