North of the Stupid Line

Archive for June, 2007

30 Jun, 2007

A new Prime Minister

Posted by: Rob

It’s quite bizarre to think that we’ve got a new Prime Minister in Gordon Brown. Be honest, who looks the more Prime Minister-ly?

Source: BBC News: Cabinet faces: old and new
When I think of Brown jetting off to the USA to meet George Bush at the White House, there’s something wrong with that image. [...]

30 Jun, 2007

Laptop

Posted by: Rob

I’m very pleased to announce that I have a new laptop, the Toshiba A100 Celeron M 1.86GHz 1GB 80GB DVD±RW XPPro.
Here’s a pic:

It’s SO nice to be back to normal!

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23 Jun, 2007

It is with regret …

Posted by: Rob

… that I have to inform you that my laptop died on Wednesday and has gone to the place where dead laptops go to in the sky.
It was a work laptop, and I should hopefully have a new replacement this week. Until then, I’m relying on other people’s laptops and those laptops that wait [...]

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17 Jun, 2007

Unity – is it possible?

Posted by: Rob

BSL translation coming soon.
Following on from Dennis’ post on The Talkie (albeit focused on unity within the Deaf community in the USA), it would be interesting to see whether unity can be achieved within the Deaf (( Deaf, used in this context to cover Deaf, Deafblind, deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing people )) [...]

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17 Jun, 2007

Downtime

Posted by: Rob

You may have noticed over the last week or so a rather annoying little denomination on nearly all my blogs or websites. As you attempted to load the index page, it would load very slowly, and show “m-gallery.org” in the status bar, as if the page was being redirected away from the blog or [...]

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  • JGJones: Hear hear - I never understand those "fathers" myself either. My wife once said this quote to me which is very true: "Any man can be a father, but
  • Dafydd: JG: Point taken. Rob: you should have waited :-D
  • JGjones: Dafydd, Android phones are good - but the current hardware that's in UK sucks for them (they're nowhere near as powerful as the iPhone 3GS so you r

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Why North of the Stupid Line? It's quite simple: to signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance. This blog belongs to Rob Wilks (never!) who can be summed up thus: Deaf, married, daddy, happy chappy, smiley, solicitor, Welshman, Cymru.