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New Mountain Bike

I finally convinced my wife that I need (well wanted really) a new mountain bike and today I took delivery of the Trek 4300 Disc 2006 model Managed to fall off it on the maiden voyage but I thought it best to get that out that way before I tackle to Bracknell Woods this coming [...]

Posted on February 14, 2006 at 12:49 pm by Martin · Permalink · One Comment
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Cheap and Cheerful MP3 Player

My six year old MP3 player just isn’t up to the job anymore and I have been looking for an alternative, on and off, over that last few weeks. Ideally I would have liked a portable music player that supported Ogg Vorbis but as my home cinema isn’t Ogg Vorbis compatible I decided to standardize [...]

Posted on February 10, 2006 at 1:00 pm by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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'ere ear!

I picked up a pair of new headphones yesterday. I decided on the Sony MDR-EX71SL headphones as all the reviews I have read have been very positive, and after listening to a few of my favourite albums with them, I am also very impressed with their performance. Due to their earbud design nearly all background [...]

Posted on August 24, 2005 at 9:46 am by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Pocket Entertainment

I haven’t done much work on Stanley in the last few days because I rediscovered ScummVM and started playing ”Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders” for the first time in years ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files, allowing you [...]

Posted on August 22, 2005 at 9:36 am by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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