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The Swindells Name

The Swindells Name We've been doing a bit of research into our family trees, and are sharing our findings. Here is what we have discovered about the Swindells family name. (more)

The Broadband Selection Guide!

The Truly Comparative ADSL Guide The best broadband providers are hard to find, as everyone offers a vague 'up to x Mbits service'. Fortunately, thinkbroadband.com gives us the ability to rate our ISP according to speed, reliability and ... (more)

The Slater Family

The Slater Family Many Thanks to Harold Slater, Doug Slater and Harriet (Slater) Brewster for supplying all of these pictures of Brainards and Slaters and their relations. Doug has a hobby family history site for our distant cousins. (more)

The Developer's Apple Mac

The Developer's Apple Mac Everybody knows that Mac OS/X is essentially Linux under the hood, but how does it stack up as a development platform? Does it make up for the scripting and package limitations of Microsoft Windows, or are all the ... (more)

The Brainard Name

The Brainard Family Name Links: Cecilia Brainard on Wikipedia, and her profile on PAHLBooks.com (Philippine American Literary House). (more)

The State of UK Broadband

As part of the Digital Economy Act 2010, Ofcom has a duty to report on the state of the UK's telecoms infrastructure every three years. Consequently it has now published the UK Communications Infrastructure Report 2011 that reports on fixed ... (more)

Misc. Pix of the 4 children of George and Edie Swindells

Misc. Pix of the 4 children of George and Edie Swindells (more)

The History of Unix

Here is a flowchart of the history of Unix, available in full glory at WikiMedia - Unix History. Awesome! (more)

Think Environmental: The Green Options

Think Environmental: The Green Options Install a wind turbine? Do more recycling? Walk everywhere? Fly less? What's best? It'd be hard to come up with a complete and 100% accurate ranking of the value of each possible action. ... (more)

Beware the Costs of Internet Tethering

Internet tethering is a great bit of technology which allows you to share your phone's 3G internet connection with a desktop or laptop computer. I found myself trying this out the other night, when we had a power cut at home but still had ... (more)

Close-ups of the WS-1000

Here are some pictures of the WS-1000 Wind Turbine, taken quite close up to show the anti-vibration mounts more clearly. (more)

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