Bush admits to lying over Iraq

I’m no political blogger, but I do take a mild interest in the blunderings of George W. Bush for pure entertainment value and just in case he accidentally presses the big red button when he’s meaning to call for a pizza. Today I stumbled upon a Huffington Post article quoting Dubya’s recent speech about the [...]

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Parallax tutorial on Vitamin

Clearleft is creating a desktop application for web designers. We put the holding page live at Silverbackapp.com last week.
There was no fanfare – I just told a few friends to check it out, but the word spread like wildfire and within a day it had received 25,000 visitors!
The response was overwhelming and unexpected – not [...]

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Cat Man Do – an animated short by Simon Tofield

Our cats are away on holiday for a few weeks while we pack and move house. As cat owners around the world will probably empathise, this excellent animation from Tandem Films perfectly captures mornings with Fizz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2sqGDUsY1Q
Click here to watch the clip on YouTube

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Vintage Ladybird books recycled into retro notebooks

My wife has been busy crafting in the lead-up to Christmas, making all sorts of goodies as gifts – she’s really amazingly talented and creative!
One idea which has become a bit of a hit this year are the vintage Ladybird books which she’s been rescuing from charity shops, dissecting, and binding with notepaper to create [...]

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BT Home Hub – There was an error joining the Airport network

A couple of times one of our Macs has inexplicably dropped the Airport wireless connection to our BT Broadband HomeHub, and refused to rejoin it (even though the other Mac remained online).
The error message when attempting to reconnect to the network says something like:
There was an error joining the Airport network BTHomeHub-XXXX
[Try again] [OK]
I [...]

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