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Canon DR-2050C Scanner

Tuesday 24th January, 2006 Leave a Comment

Bought a new scanner recently – a Canon DR-2050C … it’s a small upright sheet feeding scanner that is ideal for large runs of A4 sized paper (eg bills / bank statements / documents). I’m working towards a minimal-paper office (I know fully “paperless” is just wishful thinking at this point) … and the scanner … [Read More »]

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Counting to 10

Tuesday 24th January, 2006 Leave a Comment

I’ve been a bit quiet of late … think of it like counting to 10 to hold my temper. Let’s put it this way, I think I’ve counted up to about 24,865,390 now while trying to keep calm. I won’t go into too much detail, except to say that I was planning on attending IBM’s … [Read More »]

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Lacrosse Technology WS9211 Weather Monitor

Monday 23rd January, 2006 Leave a Comment

Bought myself a Lacrosse Technology WS9211 Weather Monitor. It’s a temperature / humidity monitor with remote sensors that can be placed outdoors, which communicate the temperature and humidity readings back to the base station via wireless links. I have the base unit set up in my home office – it also has a clock and … [Read More »]

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Topfield TF5000PVRt Masterpiece PVR

Monday 23rd January, 2006 Leave a Comment

I recently went out and bought a digital set top box to try and improve the quality of our TV reception. I ended up with the Topfield TF5000PVRt Masterpiece, that is a standard definition digital receiver with two independent tuners, plus a 160GB Personal Video Recorder that essentially replaces our VCR with a fully digital … [Read More »]

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Sennheiser PX 200 Headphones

Sunday 22nd January, 2006 1 Comment

I listen to quite a bit of music, and other audio like PodCasts, both on my laptop and my iPod. Because the sound from my laptop speakers is really really bad (they are really fantastic laptops, but simply aren’t designed to be a hifi system), I’ve been using headphones to listen to the music. I … [Read More »]

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