Here in Aberystwyth there's a big campaign going on to support local businesses as plans to convert a former Royal Mail sorting office, the former Woolworths site as well as adjacent buildings (which are still in use) into a shopping 'experience'.
Read MoreI've just received this e-mail claiming to be my employer. I'd be highly surprised if anyone replies to it, and if they do they really shouldn't be in university.
Read MoreAt work I'm responsible for two online systems - the Shop's website and Koha, the library software we use to manage our DVD rentals service.
Over the past week I've been tweaking bits here and there, hacking away (rather crudely in some cases, but hey - it works!), and adding some functions to the systems that have until now been lacking.
Read MoreEvery time I'm home I'm given the task of going through what has effectively become a junk room, sorting out what is mine, the rubbish that can be dumped etc.
Amongst all the papers and boxes there's been a load of computer bits - a case, hard disks, CD-ROM drives, memory chips and the like. Just enough there to build a working computer.
Read MoreYesterday I wrote about the great little discovery of a tobacco coupon dating from 1909 that could be collected and redeemed for cash as a reward for smoking Gallaher tobacco products.
The innocent looking book from which the coupon fell turned out not to be as innocent as it first seemed.
Read MoreEarlier today my parents were given a box of old books to have a look through. You probably know the score - keep the ones that interest you and pass on, sell or dispose of what's left.
Read MoreI've been looking through the school yearbook I was involved with producing to celebrate the millennium.
Read MoreOver on my 'localhost' site I kept details of my DVD collection in Pivot as a completely seperate installation. Recently, though, I decided to import those DVD entries in to this installation of PivotX keeping everything in one place.
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