Does anyone remember the great format war of the 70s between VHS and Betamax. It was a vicious take no prisoners war that left VHS the victor and betamax … well you don’t see them around anymore do you despite the fact that they had better quality. My strongest memory of it is going to [...]

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Do you have those day dreams sometimes where you win the lottery and buy yourself a big house (or mansion even!) where you live down by an exotic beach and expensive cars parked in your driveway . No? Must just be me then. I was just looking at folly beach real estate which has [...]

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My favourite subject from school would have had to have been 20th Century history by far. It doesn’t mean that i was good at it since there was too many essays and the like but i like it for the fact that it had happened so recently. With two world wars, the great depression, rise [...]

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As part of having my crush I have been thinking that I need to shape up and to do that I should go back to the gym. Yes a horrific idea I know but you know getting a crush, sometimes you want to change something! When I used to go to the gym I used [...]

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I for one am excited to read that in the early hours of the morning here that Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia and is moving towards being its own nation.
Who can forget some of the shocking images that came out of the splintered Yugoslavia as civil war broke out along ethnic and religious [...]

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Here is a random achievement, this is my 1800th post on this blog. Not bad for 29 months work or there abouts and who knows how many hours. Of course according to Akismet my blog just received its 36,200 th blog spam comment of which none have been successful.
So i got to thinking why [...]

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You know, you go by buildings where lawyers and doctors you see those engraved plaques on the wall stating that their office is there and the like. I always wanted to get a job which needs a plaque out the front with my name on it and sadly while I will never be that person [...]

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I remembered some time after it started today that the cricket was on with Australia going up against India. What i saw caused some despair with Australia 5 for 73 and at the time i thought there is no way we are going to win this thing so i did the only reasonable thing in [...]

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