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Thunderbird “connected to imap.gmail.com” but no emails download from Gmail

Wednesday 2nd December, 2020 Leave a Comment

If you are having difficulty with Thunderbird not downloading Gmail emails with the screen just displaying the status message “Connected to imap.gmail.com” – and if you also use ESET Nod32 antivirus – then it is likely that it is Nod32 that is the issue, not Thunderbird or Gmail. Here’s how to fix it: 1. In … [Read More »]

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Dark Chocolate Taste Test

Thursday 7th July, 2016 Leave a Comment

Today (7th July) was apparently World Chocolate Day (not to be confused with International Chocolate Day which is an American thing in September I think). To celebrate, I thought I would post a bit of research data my wife and I did over the past few weeks. I bought 15 different types of dark chocolate and … [Read More »]

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Colombia trip blog updates

Tuesday 19th June, 2012 Leave a Comment

I’ve finally finished the last of the blog entries from our trip to Colombia. You can find an index here: Colombia 2012 I’ve also added a few new photos to existing entries as I discovered some photos which had not yet been downloaded from various cameras – with phones and computers all having cameras now, … [Read More »]

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How to extend the range of your home WiFi network

Monday 2nd April, 2012 3 Comments

There are several approaches for increasing the range of your home’s WiFi network. Two basic options are: use a Wireless Access Point to add additional wireless coverage to your network use a Wireless Range Extender to increase the coverage of your WiFi They achieve largely the same result, but via two very different methods, and … [Read More »]

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Sydney Harbour Bridge

Friday 3rd September, 2010 2 Comments

As seen from Kirribilli This was posted directly from my Nokia N900 using the Pixelpipe photo sharing service. This note added later using WordPress for N900.

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