Two songs I've been listening to lately again from way back in C/Town in the late 70's &  early 80s. 'Man in the Moon' and 'Johnny calls the Chemist'.

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[caption id="attachment_410" align="alignright" width="400" caption="New Honda Cross Tourer"] [/caption] [dewplayer:http://media.roets.co.uk/bike/motorcycle.mp3] (Page soundtrack included: Press play button above) The market for the Adventure Tourer is booming. Honda has now eyed it and the heavyweight is moving in with a their new Crossover. The bike is built around their V4 800CC engine (782cc V4 liquid-cooled engine ...

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We've been on our annual excursion to Bridlington. We go to the Spa theather to watch the weekend long Musicport World Music festival. The same B and B as last year and had already pre-booked our stay a year ago on our last visit. Musicport is pretty eclectic. Not in your ...

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After last night's Manic Street Preachers gig I noticed some upcoming attractions. You can buy tickets at O2 Academy Leeds Here are two artists / groups, Goldfrapp and Leftfield I would personally like to see. Its not Rock, more Dance but definitley not of the fluffy variety. These acts have been ...

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Hi guys, as you know some of my sites may have gone wobbly Sunday morning between 02h00 and 03h00. As previously warned this was the dead time when I re-imaged the server to run Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the Linux distro run by Mark Shuttleworth the South African entrepreneur under the ubuntu ...

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Just going through the whole house doing "updates". All those pesky little scratch marks, smudges and cracks are being slowly covered.  I'm suppressing the need to get too creative.

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It's no secret that the company I work for, Ripe have recently started doing major work in The United Arab Emirates. What has been 'secret' or rather commercially sensitive has been that we have done the branding of a new hotel there (and a lot of other cross disciplinary work). The ...

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Went down to London to see our good friend Jen. Stayed over at hers and had some LATE night dinners (post wine of course). Had a rip roaring time in which we saw: The King Tutankhamon  exhibit at the O2 arena (Millenium Dome) and went to see the Lion King in ...

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Omdat jy verjaar. Ja, veertig. Nou die tyd vir 'n middeljarige krisis. So in my introspeksie het ek 'n lysie gemaak. 1. Aande in 'n kroeg 2. Motorfiets 3. Jeugdige blondine. Lysie verder besigtig. 1. Kroeg maak my moeg en Katja en ek was laas nag uit en more gaan ons na 'n rock gig - so ...

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Wel ek is terug van my vinnige reis na Marokko. Die hoof doel was om 'n besigheids afspraak by te woon. Hier weg om nege in die oggend en daar aangekom middernag. Tussen tyd was daar twee vlugte drie trein reise en 'n paar taxis. Laastens was daar ook ons drywer ...

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