Archive for September, 2004



Gingerbread men…

Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

How do you eat yours?! Personally, I break off, and devour his legs and arms first, leaving his head and body intact. Maybe this is some sadistic attempt to make him feel the most pain And it helps to stop him running away, if of course, Gingerbread men could! Once removing his use of any [...]

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October almost begins!

Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

Well winter is definitely here! Dawn is breaking later and later – meaning that it’s still dark outside when I go to bed! The nights are also arriving a whole lot earlier and that only means that the average daylight hours is obviously decreasing. It’s quite a depressing time of year – everything is so, [...]

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Virgin to branch into space!

Monday, September 27th, 2004

Entrepreneur Richard Branson is about to launch his company Virgin into the space race. He has signed a deal with pioneering aircraft designer Burt Rutan, who built SpaceShipOne that accomplished the first manned commercial flight back in June this year. Virgin Galactic’s first ship, the VSS Enterprise, is due to begin construction next year and [...]

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No IE updates for older OS users

Saturday, September 25th, 2004

If you’re using an operating system from the Windows family that isn’t XP, then you’re out of luck as far as updated browser security is concerned. New IE updates are only available as part of Service Pack 2 – for, yes you’ve guessed it, windows XP. That means if you want to patch the holes [...]

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Interesting News Stories of the Day…

Friday, September 24th, 2004

Let’s hope this is something that isn’t going to be catching on in other countries. Apparantly in Germany, people will be required to purchase a TV license. Now, you may be asking yourself, what’s so wrong with that? Well, the license is related to whether they own a computer! After proving that a computer can [...]

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