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  • Facebook vanity url’s

    Facebook now do vanity url’s so you don’t have to give out a horrendously long name. Now you can give out something like http://facebook.com/helsby for me. I tried andy and andyh but they are only accepting names with more than 5 characters. You can’t change, swap or sell the address once it has been assigned…

  • Weirdest introduction ever.

    So I’m at church on Sunday and a friend of the family comes up with her daughter who had come in from out of town. I was introduced as “This is Andy – your grandmother has a crush on him”. Very funny, pretty embarrassing and the most memorable introduction ever.

  • Kristen is blogging again.

    I got Kristen up and running with WordPress about a week ago as part of my move from MT to WordPress. However this afternoon I realised that Google Reader was not aware of the new posts because the RSS feed is slightly different.  I made a quick change this afternoon and Google Reader now has…

  • Homeward bound to the UK!

    I heard the sad news that my Uncle passed away just over a week ago so I am heading back to the UK for the funeral just before Easter weekend and it also means that I will be flying back out on Easter Monday. My plan is to fly into Gatwick and fly out of…

  • Happy Birthday – now here’s a bill!

    It’s been a busy week – so much so, that I’ve not even had a chance to blog the fact that it was my birthday a week ago! Even the birthday was long as I woke up at 4am, got up at 5 after giving up on getting back to sleep and then got paged…

  • 2008 taxes done.

    I’ve got my taxes done for 2008. As usual the process was not too bad – as long as all your paperwork is in one place and you go through the software (taxcut) methodically it’s not too bad. I chose to use the free federal file with TaxCut and then filed Ohio online rather than…

  • Geocaching webpage updated.

    I’ve just updated my Geocaching blog to use WordPress now. Hopefully this year I’ll get to do more caching – I’ve already gone out caching more days this year than I did last year, so that is a good sign. Next weekend is pi day (3.14) and there is another geocaching pi day meet up.…

  • Flickr images now included in the rss feed.

    I’ve changed the settings on my RSS feed now to include the last 5 images from my Absoblogginlutely Flickr account. So I guess I need to upload some more photo’s.  I’ve not actually taken very many recently although last year was pretty productive in my photography growth. I had some photos published in the church…

  • I’m already eating Turkey leftovers!

    Yesterday we had a potluck at church – Kristen and I made green bean casserole – as did about 5 other families in the church. Unfortunately we were watching a film so decided that it would wait just 5 more minutes…..until we checked the oven and the topping was just a little bit browner than…

  • MY kind of music.

    Ione had  a blog post about her top 40 songs and invited others to post their music choice in.  I dredged through my memories to come up with the songs that I’ve enjoyed listening to in the past. I admit some very strange (and obscure) choices amongst them but I spent many an hour listening…

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