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  • 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.

  • “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.

  • 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 of port with any depth.

  • 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”.

  • Pimp me famous / 16000 firecrackers

  • 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    Its nice to see out of date books end up on the web where anyone and everyone can make use of them.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

    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 is out 😉

    It does have an install mode where it wants to install some adware – but this is purely and very clearly optional, which is a very nice thing indeed!

  • 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, just like everyone else with an active mobile. >< GRRRRR!

    The new number tonight is 03 8102 9563 ( 0381029563 or (03) 8102 9563)

    Please note – the serious expenses do not start until you call the 1902 number, which you physically have to dial yourself.

  • 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.

  • 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 X)

    Night 1: 21 June 2006 – To bed at 10:00pm
    Set up a custom one hour period for this trial. I found I was spending way too much time wondering about the volume, and paying attention to the voice. After about 20-30 minutes I let go and ended up having a very good nights sleep up until 6:30am or so. Need to get volume correct, might try a voiceless setting tomorrow and see how it goes.

    Night 2: To Bed at 9:57pm

    Set up another custom Nap, an hour long sleep, with no voice over and the aural stereo option. Took a while to get to sleep, but woke up rested, no memories of any dreams to speak of either. I think next time I might try one of the default options.

    Night 3: To Bed at 11:17

    Used the “sleep nap” to generate the nap used for this night. The voice still bothers me, but not as much as it first did, perhaps they need a woman with a sexy voice option for the naps, I think I’d like that a little better ;), its kinda creepy having a guy speak every now and then when you are trying to relax. Was very useful today to help put the somewhat stressful day behind me and get on with sleeping.

    Night 4: to bed at 11:54

    Used an hour long custom nap (sleep) with the voice disabled. I think this is my preferred nap now, it is rather relaxing and helps me to let go of the thoughts and pressures of the day (both external in self created/imposed) and get on with a relaxing sleep. Its getting easier to fall asleep with this piece of software presently and I nodded off rather quickly.

    Night 5: to bed at 9:14

    Used my favourite thus far the custom nap (sleep) with voice disabled. This is great at? helping unwind at the end of the day. I must admit that I went to bed with a well over active mind that ordinarily would make it very hard to get a good nights sleep, with this nap on, I was out of it in 15-30 minutes (i guess – hard to tell when you’re sleeping) and woke up very refreshed at 6:10.

    Based on my experiences over the past 5 days, I’d highly recommend anyone thinking of looking at something to aid in sleep (whilst avoiding chemical based solutions) to have a good hard look at pzizz!

    M