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CD for sale on ebay Hard Times The Album Mixed By Roger Sanchez

Feel free to check out this well loved cd, Hard Times The Album Mixed By Roger Sanchez, this is one of the classics from my early clubbing days!
Hard Times The Album Mixed By Roger Sanchez

The Console Wars

( PS3 and Recommendations and Wii and XBOX 360 )

Check out his funny take on the current generation (7th if wikipedia is to be believed) of consoles:
http://valleywag.com/tech/videogames/the-console-wars-animated-295730.php

My company website

( Code and HTML and PC and PHP and Random and Recommendations )

After a long period without a company website, I’ve now created a new one showing what I offer and a portfolio of both web and digital tv projects I’ve worked on.
I can provide a wide range of IT services, specialising in Web and Digital TV but also covering PC maintenance and troubleshooting, Broadband setup and [...]

Fasterfox prefetch blocking on the server

This is to block firefox from fasterfox prefetching links that the user may never read (this happens on forums for instance quite a lot) and using up bandwidth that is best used elsewhere on your server.
To turn it off add the following to your robots.txt
User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: /
Personally I only enable courteous setting on fasterfox, the [...]

New Firefox Plugin For Ebay

This looks good, shows all your auctions, get alerts when you are outbid etc.
http://en-gb.www.mozilla.com/en-GB/add-ons/ebay/

Firefox Extensions

Here’s a list of my recommended firefox extensions:

Adblock Plus - Blocks adverts and other annoying things, includes auto-updating block lists.
British English Dictionary - Required for us Brits for the inbuilt spell checker in firefox 2.x
Fasterfox - Tweaks the firefox network settings to get a bit more performance out of firefox
Firebug - New debug console for [...]

Save money when buying books from whsmith

Although this seemed a bit silly to me, I’m not going to argue. If you want a book from whsmith, you can order a book online and get it delivered to a local whsmith store for free, so you get Internet prices at your local store. It does take a few days (about 5 or [...]

New Monitor

Well I’ve been using my new 22″ widescreen monitor for a few days and all I can say is I’m really impressed. If anyone is looking to upgrade to a widescreen monitor I can highly recommend the Benq FP222WA 22″ LCD Widescreen 5ms (1680×1050).
I got mine from Ebuyer for 211.75 inc vat (once at ebuyer [...]

Great customer service from John Lewis

We bought a coffee table from John Lewis the other week, it was delivered last week for free (we ordered it instore) and I attempted to put it together on thursday. Unfortunately the table wouldn’t go together correctly as there was a 3mm gap which wouldn’t let the screw catch on the thread, today I [...]