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Internet silliness
Posted Jun 7, 2012
Learned a couple of things today from (other) people who know better.
In order of amusement.
1. Go to google and do an I'm feeling lucky search for "I'm looking for Chuck Norris"
2. Look at the customer reviews for Veet Hair removal gel for men on Amazon.co.uk
Have fun if you're interested. 
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Wow, how could I have been so unaware of this.
Posted Feb 13, 2012
This guy is a mate of mine- hadn't seen him for a few years until Saturday when we were at a mutual friend's birthday party.
He is the little brother of my roommate from college when I was a student and visited us at the age of mmm, 11? with the parents. They showed us his piano prowess - the most amazing thing I've ever seen - I played the piano once upon a time -never in my wildest dreams could I begin to imagine playing as he did when he was 11.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSViE3i-hKc
http://www.philipedwardfisher.com
So looked him after I got back. He did mention that he plays a lot in New York now but - Classic album of the week on Classic FM - nominations for awards. Very pleased for the guy and if you're into this sort of thing - buy his album!
He's better than me a snooker to 
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Latest reply: Feb 13, 2012
Popped my ebay seller cherry
Posted Feb 7, 2012
Anyone want a faulty 3G iphone? 
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Free solar panels - or not... :-/
Posted Dec 1, 2011
Well we signed up for one of these free solar panel deals recently.
The idea being, you get solar panels fitted for free and get to use any or all of the electricity generated for free. The deal is that the company fitting them get the feed-in tariff - that is the payment you get from the national grid for any excess.
Trouble is the feed-in tariff if getting halved on the 12 December.
I knew that.
What I didn't know was that existing applications have to be fully fitted and complete by a deadline of the 11th December.
So we have got our pack from ecovision yesterday. So we need to get our roof surveyed (optional but really quite important), get permission from the building society - and I know that includes a new valuation survey to be done, get all the legal dobbly-doo-dah done and *then* get them up and running in only 10 days.
Yeah that's going to happen then 
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Latest reply: Dec 1, 2011
Wow, have I slipped down the pecking order!
Posted Oct 18, 2011
Well I got kind of used to being one of the oldies around here. Now we've moved, there suddenly seems to be many old researchers suddenly returning.
I've seen Loonytunes, Dragonfly, Delphic Oracle, Silly Willy to name but a few on the whose online pop-up. Names from a different era.
All of a sudden I'm now well down the list on the Whose online pop-up.
How cool, I hope some of them return to stick around properly. 
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Latest reply: Oct 18, 2011
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