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Whenever I mention our bLOG to anyone, the reaction is always the same: “what’s a blog?” I forsee a time in the not-too-distant future when the word ‘blog’ is as common-place in our everyday online lives as ‘google’ is now.

If you have the inclination to try ‘blogging’, have a search for some of the many sites that will help you give it a go e.g. blogger.com. If you’re a little more knowledgeable and have your own web hosting, have a look at Wordpress. It’s a superb open-source solution and what I’ve used to create this one. If you find something different that you recommend, post the link in a comment together with your thoughts. -AT

Jasmine is now 18 months old and is only just starting to show signs of calming down. She’s been photographed so much that you only have to point a camera at her and she flops down looking completely bored. This was just a quick grab with the 20D and 100mm F2.8 macro. It’s a great portrait lense for both people and dogs! -AT

As the title says: “Is your PC protected?”. At the very least, Anti-virus, Firewall and Spyware applications should be installed and kept up-to-date. What do I use? AVG Free Edition Antivirus, Zone Alarm (Free) Firewall and Spybot S&D (free).

With some common-sense and this combination of completely free software, you can be safer than ‘most’ online . There shouldn’t be any excuses eh? :) -AT

After much testing, I’ve decided to go live with our bLOG. It’s very much in its infancy at the moment and there is still a lot of work to do with it. In particular, the links column needs sorting out – a lot more will be added to it! For now, what you’re seeing is effectively a beta and many of the problems that I know exist with it, are behind the scenes and don’t really impact on the reader; I’ll be fixing these as I go, but enough of it works to warrant using it.
Feel free to press the buttons and post comments – although to prevent being spammed by undesirables – the first comment that you make will be moderated.
Any thoughts about the look and feel of the bLOG are welcomed :) -AT

All credit to John Lazarus, who in a quest to cut his astronomical phone bill down, (“Gill can talk!” he said) stumbled onto 1899.com. They’re well worth using – my own bill down by 60% this quarter. For UK calls to landlines, you pay 3p – NOT per minute – just 3p! It’s valid anytime of day or night and you can yatter away for hours at a time without having to reconnect. Billing is monthly direct debit and if fully itemised. Now I pay line rental to BT and the odd call charge (when I forget to use 1899) and a couple of £ each month goes to 1899 to pay my bill. Somewhat of a sceptic, I was slow to change and now I’m kicking myself at how much it has cost me over the last year! -AT