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Eventful day after chasing TalkTalk for nearly 2 weeks I finally got them to look at my broadband after the LLU upgrade on my local exchange. I now have in excess of 1000Kbps so yes I now have 1Mbps Internet after being on 512Mbps for 3 years or so.

Anyhow I also changed my hosting company today to celebrate the new bandwidth increase so  Las Vegas Communications Solutions are now hosting THF. To be honest just thought it was cool the site was maybe being hosted on a webserver in Las Vegas, but I bet it isn’t 🙂 …. oh plus they were cheap 😉

Wow it’s been so long since we posted anything thought I’d post a piccy to be going on with !!

Halloween at the Herbert’s 🙂

Thought I’d add a video of Henry after finding some old video footage

This is what happens when you drop your prized PSP in the bath, it gets nice and wet !!! and then has to be taken apart. At least it’s working again but check out the really nice water marks on the lcd. Think I’ll be checking out MR Modchips for a new screen 🙁 That will teach me to go near a bath with an armfull of gadgets, luckily my pocket pc escaped !

The photo area has been rejigged and given it’s own page here complete with cheesy pic of me ! I thought not only would I upload the photos taken at Santa Pod earlier this month I’d also have a crack at posting my own YouTube video…. enjoy

Despite my usual (probably misplaced) dislike of all things Microsoft I decided to try out Windows Live Writer after some good initial reviews. It seems to work really well with WordPress and despite being a Beta I haven’t had any issues as yet stability wise. It’s just a really nice and simple tool to edit and post to your blog in a full WYSIWYG way. I have to admit its easier to use than the inbuilt WordPress offering however time will tell this being the second post using the tool.

There is a new blog from the developers of Windows Live Writer from which you can download the Beta version here

I think maybe I’m changing too much at once, replacing  MS outlook at home, switching to tablet PC and now switching my blog editor !

Recently I’ve been trying to rid myself of Microsoft products and looking at online alternatives. So far I’ve switched my main email over to gmail whilst using Mozilla Thunderbird as a POP client onto my gmail account and this is working great. One thing I was missing however was a calendar, Thunderbird currently only has a Beta plugin to handle calendars plus I really wanted something accessible online and could be easily shared. First I looked at Google Calendar, it’s got a nice UI, it’s speedy, integrates into your google search homepage as with GMail but it was lacking one crucial thing, sync with my Palm PDA. After much searching I gave up trying to sync (I did have some success with the opensource remotecal add-in for Outlook but as I wanted to ditch Outlook this was pointless). Anyway then I found AirSet, this is a great online personal information management tool, which provides group and personal calendars, contacts, blog and more. The biggest factor for me was the nice little hotsync component they supply that lets me sync the Palm so I can add appointments or contacts on the Palm or online, very handy!

Anyway go www.airset.com to register for a free airset account and try it for yourself

After many hours the cake was complete, it stood tall, menacing even…the one cake to rule them all !!!!!

Seriously though this is Katie’s cake masterpeice which she just finished at 22:20 after starting at 16:00, I hope Annabel appreciates it 🙂