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Firefox plays dirty?

September 27th, 2006 site admin No comments

The mozilla foundation are starting to impose controls on their logos and trademark.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622 and  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=265646

I think this is a dangerous route for the Mozilla foundation to go. Whilst I understand that they need to protect their trademark, they may hamper the popularity of their products by imposing control procedures on 3rd party distributors, with talks of a boycott already.

Why not let this go? After all, they are succeeding off the back of Netscape, and Netscape were happy to hand over complete control to Mozilla?

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Footballers

September 24th, 2006 site admin No comments

The boys had a good time at football training session today. Joe was out tackling hard and Isaac made some very good saves in goal. Joe scored a goal which rebounded off Tom and Isaac and Isaac won the player of the week trophy!

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One very good reason not to buy Zune

September 23rd, 2006 site admin No comments

(and why Microsoft will fail to succeed in the mp3 market).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5371182.stm

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Trying Ubuntu

September 18th, 2006 site admin 2 comments

Installed Ubuntu on our machine at home a couple of days ago and it’s good stuff. If you’re thinking of trying Linux, but have used Windows all the time, then this is for you. It installs easily, has a nice looking interface and has lots of software that works out of the box (without the typical config process).

Screen shot

Screen shot

Loads of more ubuntu screenshots (not ours though) can be seen here.

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The faraway tree geocache

September 17th, 2006 site admin No comments

We’ve finally planted our geocache nearby. It’s currently stuck somewhere in the editorial process, but it should be out soon. We’ve also placed some nice stuff in there, which should interest people to go there.

Happy hunting.

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Daniel Tammet

September 11th, 2006 site admin No comments

writes interesting stuff. I like his take on life, especially his ideas on self-sufficiency.

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Isaac and Joe write about their summer holiday…

September 3rd, 2006 site admin No comments

We all went on a cruise because we are the funniest grandchildren and we are twins. On the cruise we went to Malaga and Gibralter and Cadiz and Portugal. On the boat we had a swimming pool and a posh restaurant called Nautiness bar. At Malaga we went to the Aqua Parc.

We went camping once in Hastings and a week ago we went camping again in Weymouth. On Isaac and Joseph’s birthday we had an England birthday cake and a Spiderman birthday cake. On Daddy’s birthday we went to the Aquadrome and pizza hut. His birthday cake was an ordinary cake with cream and plastic soldiers on them.

We went on a long bike ride to the pub on our old bikes. On our birthday we got new bikes with gears which meant we could go faster downhill and uphill. So we took the bikes camping and to a forest. We did 3 Geocaches in the forest on our bikes. Some of the tracks were hilly and fun. Isaac didn’t use his brakes on any of the hills even though mummy and daddy said “use your brakes”. Luckily Isaac didn’t have any falls. Joseph went down the big hills without any gears and brakes.

All through the summer we went geocaching. You go around with a GPS unit and normally it costs £99, but we got ours cheaper. You go all around the forest looking for little ammo cans or lunch boxes or black round tiny cylinders. The small ones are called micros. You find the geocaches in holes of trees, under logs and rocks. Inside the geocache you can find a little packet with toys in and another little packet with a piece of paper where you have to write which day you found it. And we like swapping all the toys inside.

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