Author: malliemcg
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Hardy’s Show Port “Cellar Reserve”
This port from Hardy’s is rather nice, it has all the right flavours – massive quantities of fruit and ooodles of wood. This is very pleasent after a meal on a cold evening.
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Currency Creek Estate – Shiraz (2003)
“The Creek Station” as it is branded from Currency Creek in South Australia have this Shiraz out which is good for drinking now, there is no over all amazingness to it that would make it my staple, but it is definatly not unpleasent with few of the harsher flavours associated with young bulk wine.
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Young Maid – Cherry Port (NV)
Whilst visiting Young in NSW I picked up a bottle of “Cherry Port” from “The Jam Factory” (Young is a big cherry growing region). This port is sickly sweet with a hint of toffee/caramelisation. It was not entirely displeasing, but definatly way too sweet. I’d not reccomend it for people looking for a different style/type…
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PuTTY – Registry Location for its settings
PuTTY is a handy little program, sometimes however you might like to change the background colours for multiple saved sessions, it can often be easier doing this in the registry, rather than via the GUI. The path you’ll need is “My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\” Colour2 is the “Default Background”.
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O`Reilly Openbooks –
O’Reilly has published a number of Open Books — books with various forms of “open” copyright. Its nice to see out of date books end up on the web where anyone and everyone can make use of them. For as much myself as anybody else I’m blogging this so that I can find it again.…
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Messenger Plus! Live – The Windows Live Messenger Extension
Messenger Plus! Live – The Windows Live Messenger Extension This handy little extension will add the most important feature to MSN Messenger (errm, Windows Live Messenger this week). TABBED conversations, something very useful and most handy. Looks like i will not be completely annoyed with the standard, well not until the new version of Gaim…
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Call then hang up – “Mobile Content Pack” Scam
Well it seems this scam is still running rife. Got a new number today that is not on my existing list I hope that these fools get shutdown. I did not get a mobile so that anyone could prank me, and try and con me into calling a 1902 line because I won a prize,…
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Render Whole Planets in Real-Time ? No Problem! – SelectiveGamers
Render Whole Planets in Real-Time ? No Problem! – SelectiveGamers This looks very interesting, especially when you consider things like the Spore which is coming, rendering of an entire planet looks quite impressive.
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pzizz? is a personal life coaching system, energy and stress, health and fitness, hypnosis, NLP, uk
pzizz? is a personal life coaching system, energy and stress, health and fitness, hypnosis, NLP, uk Pzizz is an interesting piece of software that you can use to help get you into a relaxed state for an energizing sleep or deep relaxing sleep. I am currently trialing it. (Available for both Windows and Mac OS…