Here’s the Wordpress plug-ins that help make this website that much more fun to use…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our new, simplified homepage is now active!

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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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