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Thinking of a new car
Posted Jul 30, 2006
I've got about a month until my car's MOT runs out.
I'm thinking that is is highly unlikely to make it through this time due to this incident --> F63554?thread=2096965
So my thoughts are turning to buying a replacement.
Now what do I want?
- It needs to reliable: so that rules out Fiat.
- It needs to be a fun car to drive: so away with the later model Peugeots, which is a shame as they did produce great cars.
- It needs to run long distances as I'm back to communting 35-40 miles per day: this could mean a diesel you know!
- It needs to be reasonably cheap, I'm not planning on spending more than about £10k on it: this means second hand only (but to be fair I would *never* buy a new car with my own money unless I had pots and pots and pots of the stuff.)
- It doesn't need to be that big as I don't ferry around families and luggage and all that jazz.
- I couldn't give a stuff about the colour. But maybe not white again, and I would need a certain amount of persuading for day-glo orange and some of the other more outlandish colours that I've seen around.
- It musn't be Japanese: just because.
Taking all of this into consideration, plus after reading a collection of car magazines, I am heading in the direction of a Seat Ibiza 1.9TDi, say two to three years old with up to 35,000 miles on the clock. But I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise if folk around here have any better ideas.
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In The City (plus others)
Posted Jul 25, 2006
I'm in one of my periodic Jam kicks. I don't seem to be able to replace one Jam album on my deck with anything other than another Jam album.
So it set me to thinking: what exactly is my all time favourite Jam track?
That answer I believe is: all of them 
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Feeds
Posted Jul 25, 2006
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/feeds
And why was I not told of this development? 
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Finally going free
Posted Jul 23, 2006
Channel 4's 'Film Four' that is 
There've been teaser ads - and very good they were too with the likes of Dame Judy Dench, Euan MdGregor, Ray Winstone and Christian Slater - on TV for several weeks. Well now it's finally arrived and the service is going free-to-air for the very first time tonight.
I can't explain how stupidly excited I am about this 
When the service first launched about six or seven years ago it was only available on subscription, bundled up with something or other from Sky and the like. You won't believe how aften I've wondered over the years whether to take the plunge and get Sky installed so that I could access to Film Four... but now I don't have to pay any money to the Dirty Digger ever 
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I seem to be vanishing slowly
Posted Jul 18, 2006
Two posts in about 10 days? I'm not here as often as I used to be... 
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