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24 December 2008 Stewart

Print-Your-Own Christmas Gift Tags

It’s Christmas Eve, we’ve run out of Christmas gift tags and the shops are out-of-stock. So I’ve created my own

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23 December 2008 Stewart

Crafts with Kids: Large Christmas snow scene

Here’s an idea for a Christmas craft to do with a child. Simple to make and looks great. The materials

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21 December 2008 Stewart

Book Review: The Christmas Book – Traditional, Environmentally Friendly Christmas with a touch of irony

The full title of the book is: The Christmas book – Discover a simpler, greener Christmas. Hand-crafted gifts and cards,

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17 December 2008 Stewart

What not to buy – Vacuum cleaner – Russell Hobbs Hepa Cyclonic 1800

I wouldn’t normally review something as boring as a vacuum cleaner, but I just thought I’d put out a word

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16 December 2008 Stewart

Upgrade of wordpress blog engine to version 2.7

I have successfully upgraded the engine used for this blog on www.watkissonline.co.uk. This is powered by wordpress 2.7 running on

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21 November 2008 Stewart

Book Review: The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh

I have had the opportunity of hearing Simon Singh talk at Batchley Park when I worked in IT security. I

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18 November 2008 Stewart

Software Review – OpenOffice.org 3 – Free Office Suite for Windows, Mac, Linux and more…

OpenOffice.org version 3 is the latest version of a completely free Office Suite. Version 3 was released on the 13

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16 November 2008 Stewart

Computer upgrade Utopia – Linux Ubuntu upgrade to 8.10

Just Imagine, the latest version of your favourite operating system has become available. You click on a button which says

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11 November 2008 Stewart

Tropical Birdland Leicester – taking a child and baby in Summer and Autumn

I have been to Tropical Birdland in Dresford, Leicestershire on two occasions. The first was a warm spring day when

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1 November 2008 Stewart

Where not to stay in London – Travelodge Wembley

I have a reason to be biased against this particular hotel as we had some money stolen whilst staying there.

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