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Garmin Nuvi 310d

I bought a Garmin Nuvi 310 sat nav system over the holidays. It is a nice device, a good size, neither too small nor large, and the "d" bundle came with most of the accessories one might want, like the USB cable, carry case, mountings and so on, as well as a DVD with map […]

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SM2442

I used to have a very simple clock, synced to the atomic clock at Rugby. It took a single AA battery, warned you when the battery was low, had a snooze, and basically it worked well. Unfortunately when Aimee was very young she broke it. So I looked for a replacement and couldn't really find […]

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Balamory / Battlestar Galactica Crossover!

According to my Sky+ box, there was an exciting episode of Balamory featuring cylons. Unfortunately I must have missed them when I watched it. Go figure.  

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More about the rabbit

I've had some more time to play with my Rabbit (Nabaztag/tag) now, and can say a little more about my findings. The hardware is lovely, well constructed and solid feeling. The rabbit sits around 20 cm in height. It has a slightly curved bottom so that you can see the pulsing violet glow that tells […]

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Nabaztag / Tag

My new Nabaztag / Tag arrived today. This is the second generation wireless rabbit, and I hope it will be fun. So far, it's been an ambivalent experience. I had trouble connecting the beast (BTW, you will require not just a wireless network, but a wireless enabled PC or PDA (I used my Palm T|X) […]

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Sky Interference

We got Sky+ just before Christmas; since my daughter gets the say over the remote control while CBeebies is broadcasting, and then my wife takes over till about 11pm, it's the easiest way for me to get to see anything. We have had sporadic signal problems however. Today I discovered it was SRSSI - Starling […]

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Sony Ericsson K800i

I had a Samsung SGH-720 or some such. It's been nothing but a pain in the butt... very buggy, especially the bluetooth, which required a power cycle to work correctly 75% of the time. So I got a Sony Ericsson K800i. It seems to be a lovely phone, lovely crisp graphics, good menus and user […]

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Palm TX woes

So yesterday my Palm TX wouldn't switch on. After a lot of frustration I eventually hit the reset button on the back. Then it kept crashed on the "Palm Powered" logo and entered into an infinite loop - well infinite until the battery ran out. I managed a warm reset and can get a lot […]

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