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Borneo Blog
Caroline and I will be blogging from our upcoming trip to Borneo. Keep an eye out here: thelovebug.org/borneo
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Two days to go
So yeah, there are two days to go before we jet off to the super-equatorial jungle paradise that is Borneo. We’ve got arrangements for the kids sorted, we’re 50% packed, we’ve got our travel and...
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Borneo Day 1 – 03/09 – The journey to Heathrow
(Sorry this is late, but our check-in on Thursday night was so late that we just wanted to sleep, and today’s been so busy!) So then, Day 1 of the Borneo trip started with a bus journey from our little...
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Borneo Day 2 – 04/09 – Heathrow to Kota Kinabalu
So, on Day 2, we find ourselves sitting on an Airbus 388 departing from Heathrow, bound for the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. There’s not really a lot we can say about a 12½ hour flight, followed...
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Borneo Day 3 – 05/09 – Day at leisure
Day 3 was a day of rest. It’s surprising how stressful a long haul flight actually is, particularly with a far-from-straightforward transfer between two flights. As our lovely trip organisers were...
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Borneo Day 4 – 06/09 – Our Borneo Adventure
Today’s post written by Caroline Today involved an early start. We headed for breakfast early and enjoyed another high quality breakfast, we met with the others on the lawn behind the main entrance to...
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Borneo Day 5 – 07/09 – Mari-Mari Cultural Village and Surprise Dinner
With thanks to Caroline for journalling the activities for Day 4, it falls to me to tell you what happened on Day 5. Today, we were back on the coach to visit a Cultural Village. More about that later....
View ArticleIllegal motorcycles
I’m struggling to work out where to start with this. Let me try. We suffer from an epidemic of trail bikes here in Conisbrough. Young idiots (for that’s what they are) bombing around on illegal,...
View ArticleMy New Year Goals for 2017 explained
Better late than never, here are my goals for 2017, and the reasons for them. My New Year Goals for 2017 are… More… …reading I treated myself to a brand new Kindle Paperwhite at Christmas. I’d been...
View ArticleA new site… a new start
So here we are… a new site, a new start, and a new determination to make something of this domain. For many years, thelovebug.org was nothing more than my web playground, but I think it’s worth a lot...
View Article9/11: I remember
I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. I was sitting in my office at work, and I’d just made a phone call to a colleague upstairs. They said to me, “have you heard about the plane crash...
View ArticleAmazon and Paypal terminate Wikileaks services
Well, it would appear as though Amazon have cancelled Wikileaks hosting (yes, the link is dead), causing them to drop off the internet. Wikileaks have since re-emerged as wikileaks.de, but this is...
View ArticleSuch language in this house!
Amy used those two fateful words this morning for the first time. You know, the words that translate roughly to “go forth and procreate”? She overheard it on a YouTube video that we seriously didn’t...
View ArticleSoftware Freedom
Today is Software Freedom Day, and I thought it only fitting to write an article on a subject that has been bugging me for some time now. I was going to use this opportunity to cover off the talk that...
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My thoughts on Ubuntu
With the recent release of the latest version of Ubuntu 11.10, the “Oneiric Ocelot“, I thought I’d get down my thoughts on Ubuntu in general. I’ve been a full-time Ubuntu user on my home laptop (the...
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My thoughts on the patent war
As Samsung attempt to prevent sales of the iPhone 4S, and Apple try and prevent sales of the Galaxy Tab, I feel I must share my opinion on the patent war. I’m no lawyer, so my terms may appear basic....
View ArticleMy last blog post of 2011
Almost every day, I have the urge to write about something, but when it actually comes to getting to a point where I can write it down, inevitably I’ve forgotten about it. So I’m putting this down on...
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And now to the proper 2012 post…
So, following on from my previous post (and thank you to everyone who offered feedback), here is my obligatory 2012 post with… du-du-duuuhhhh… my goals and resolutions for the year. Goals I have set...
View ArticleFreaky door closing…
Something really freaky happened yesterday. I had just picked my motorbike up from it’s service, and brought it home. I parked the bike at the side of the house, went into the house through the front...
View ArticleWindows Update – why?
Caroline and I spoke briefly about this on The Bugcast 288. Consider this scenario (times are approximate) If I was to take an old crappy laptop and an Ubuntu 10.04 CD, I could get that up and running...
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Fifteen Years
Fifteen years ago today, an event happened that changed the course of my life. What? Of course I’m not exaggerating… I’d call: meeting, getting married, getting our own home, having three gorgeous...
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