Author Archives: BlogMonkey

In the news

Posted on February 5, 2012 by BlogMonkey

According to one traffic monitoring company, the Daily Mail (no link juice for them) is now the Worlds most popular online paper. A sad day for humanity…

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Games

Posted on January 4, 2012 by BlogMonkey

Can’t help but be impressed by what people can achieve in their spare time. Castle Story.

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Interesting

Posted on December 29, 2011 by BlogMonkey

Was going to post this article weeks ago but didn’t quite get around to it. Better late than never. Cruises and the people that vanish.

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Games

Posted on December 29, 2011 by BlogMonkey

A few months back I posted about a Humble Bundle I was considering getting and in the end I did donate a few quid to charity in order to purchase it. Maybe not as much as I should but most … Continue reading →

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Weekend in Ashford in the Water

Posted on November 28, 2011 by BlogMonkey

Strange name for a place really as it’s more on the water than in it. Unless they suffer from flooding I suppose. Still, it was the last minute destination of choice for Miss C and I for a long weekend … Continue reading →

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Environmental

Posted on November 8, 2011 by BlogMonkey

Mongolia on brink of world’s greatest resource boom. A life without electricity? Not particularly likely but it is interesting to see people looking at alternatives to running everything with the electron.

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Interesting

Posted on November 6, 2011 by BlogMonkey

Mining for gold and other metal in a Guatemala dump. The river washes away the lighter rubbish leaving the more valuable metals in the river bed. More pictures

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Technology

Posted on October 31, 2011 by BlogMonkey

Lytro, a consumer level plenoptic camera. The idea is that rather than focus the shot and then take a picture, the picture taken with a Lytro holds all the information needed to focus the image at any given point in … Continue reading →

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‘Fixing’ an Asus HD5770

Posted on October 30, 2011 by BlogMonkey

It seems all I ever blog about in detail lately are stories about my computer. Still, this could be vaguely useful information for someone so I thought I may as well tell the tale. It was a few months back … Continue reading →

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Upgrade time

Posted on October 10, 2011 by BlogMonkey

I’d been contemplating a few upgrades to my PC for quite some time and one of the central things to the upgrade my CPU. Whilst my trusty Core 2 Duo had served me well for almost 5 years (and still … Continue reading →

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