Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
In recent times there’s been news in a slowdown in new developments, so it looked like the continuous change in the waterfront in Leeds to be on pause, though the YEP, reported on a £48million project to change the Leeds Tower Works. It looks like a large development incorporating old with the new in a [...]
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
We awoke to a bright and sunny day. After a leisurely breakfast and a walk to the shop for a paper it was time to set off. The advice for mooring is to face upstream, so we had turned round last night. So after starting up and ready to cast off, we needed to turn [...]
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
I already have a GPS unit, but if I was in the market for another, I’d be soooo tempted by this one. It’s the first time since the TV Movie Knight Rider 2000 – has William Daniels been involved in anything officially Knight Rider. In fact it had been rumored for quite some time that [...]
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
When I moved this blog to WordPress I looked round for free templates and decided on the Green-Blue one that’s used up until now. I tweaked this to personalise it, and have been fairly happy with it. However the layout is fairly rigid, so if I add a plug-in it may require another tweak. Not [...]
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
It’s been reported on the Derbyshire BBC News site that the police are launching a scheme to target canal crime. This seems to mainly be circulating an information pack, which I can assume will be similar to one I received at home a while ago when the police were targeting crime in my locality, with [...]
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