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Blog’s Plug-Ins

August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here’s the Wordpress plug-ins that help make this website that much more fun to use…
Active Plugins
Inactive Plugins

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Tags: Family and Friends

This website upgraded to Wordpress v2.5

March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

A technie note, just so I remember that today was the day (night?) that I upgraded to Wordpress v2.5 (this is what shows you the page you are reading, its layout, etc. Basically, its the engine behind this website).
Sadly, two plugins for it no longer work: 404-Notifier and WP-Table
I’ve lost all the links on [...]

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Regular Expressions

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

No, this isn’t about what Tolii and Tosha say to us every evening after being told its bath time!
Instead, its a post to refer you to this excellent tutorial on the computer kind of “regular expressions”, a way of expressing to a computer what to search for.
For example, here’s how to search for an email [...]

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Open Day at National Oceanographic Centre

March 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The National Oceanographic Centre (NOC), formerly Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), held its annual open day this Saturday during the Science and Engineering week festivities. There’s a few photos here; and, as usual, more photos, in our gallery.
It was a great opportunity for mummy to show Tolii and Tosha where she worked. Even though both [...]

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Tags: Technology

Teasing Tosha Trying For Troubles

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Tosha thought it would be good fun to see if mummy would type words a little bit differently on her laptop…
He figured out how to pull out the “F” and “J” keys on her laptop and then to swap them around.
Mummy saw the two keys loose, thought her wonderful geeky husband was doing some kind [...]

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Tags: Technology

A New Theme

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

As you have probably noticed, I have changed the theme (look) of this blog and of our photos websites. I’m trying to make them more consistent in their look & feel. Its a work in progress…

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Tags: Technology

Fixing Washed-Out Colour On HP Color LaserJet 2605 - Worth The Trouble!

February 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today, I cleaned our HP Color LaserJet 2605dn printer. By the way, it is spelled “Color” and not “Colour”, even though it was sold here in the UK!

The printouts from it were getting more and more washed-out and tending towards green.
I found a solution to the problem on FixYa and, in case you have [...]

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HP Colour LaserJet Fading Fix

February 23rd, 2008 · 25 Comments

The Problem Illustrated (and incentive to fix it):
Here is a “before” and an “after” set of photos.
Notice how the “before” image appears washed out and with a distinctive green tint. What magenta (red) there is in the photo is concentrated in the middle; the edges are even more green.
The “after” image looks, well, wonderful.

Some Background [...]

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Tosha’s Experiment

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Tolii and Tosha have taken to playing Jump Ahead Starting School first thing in the mornings. Its a nifty set of games for them to learn things through play. Unfortunately, Tosha sometimes gets a bit bored just sitting there watching and so begins to explore computer hardware. He conducts experiments such [...]

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Tags: Technology

Countdown - what time is it?

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Daddy is very concerned that he might sleep through the new year — he was up late last night fixing his computer that had a hard drive crash on it. The worst of it was that he was being all fancy and trying to install a RAID (backup mirroring) system on his new hard [...]

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Tags: Technology

Get Lost! (Not)

July 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments

Andrew finally broke down and bought himself a GPS gadget: the Garmin Nüvi 670. The similar 660 got rave reviews but didn’t have (up until very recently) the integrated FM transmitter - a feature definitely worth having.
Its quite cool and promises to not get him lost (not that seemed to be a problem before…!?). [...]

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We’ve Moved (Blogs)

June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Welcome to the Reeves-Hall family’s blog (again)!
We just moved our blog from Blogger to Wordpress. So, this is the first entry using the new system! It was a bit of work for Andrew, but no work for you. Over time, and in his “free” time,which Andrew classifies as between 9pm and 3am, spiffy features [...]

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The multi-touch computer from Microsoft

June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

This has nothing to do with the family. Microsoft has announced its multi-touch display computer. It was written up in Popular Mechanics.
David Pogue of the NY Times, noticed that it is awfully similar to something first demonstrated by Jeff Han at the TED conference.  Lots of the stuff for it is all preliminary and hacked together [...]

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Revamped home page

December 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Our new, simplified homepage is now active!

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New photo program online!

November 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

A techie post
I’m using a new program for showing our family’s photos: Coppermine Photo Gallery.
You’ll see it now online at http://photos.reeves-hall.net/.
Please click the ‘Register’ button to create an account for yourself.

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