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	<title>Chris&#039;s IntaWeb Log Blog Dooffa &#187; Chris</title>
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		<title>Dream Laptop</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2012/05/05/150/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 14:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dream Laptop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had various macBook Pros for years and we sell a load of HP and Lenovo laptops so I get my hands on all the latest models. However none of them are still near my dream laptop, and yes I&#8217;ve been hunting for quiet a while now - Metal case not plastic, solid feel, built [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve had various macBook Pros for years and we sell a load of HP and Lenovo laptops so I get my hands on all the latest models. However none of them are still near my dream laptop, and yes I&#8217;ve been hunting for quiet a while now -</p>
<li>Metal case not plastic, solid feel, built to last</li>
<li>A 15&#8243; screen with a resolution of something like 2560 x 1440</li>
<li>Very thin screen bezel</li>
<li>256GB SSD (min 500Mb read and write)</li>
<li>8GB RAM</li>
<li>No optical drive</li>
<li>Decent Battery life</li>
<li>Back lit keyboard</li>
<li>Proper UK keyboard not the Apple version <img src='http://cconnor.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>Option for i5 or i7</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t care about weight, but don&#8217;t expect an ugly Alienware style machine</li>
<p>I&#8217;m liking the look of the ultrabooks but they&#8217;re just half hearted attempts really. Years ago I would have said that a super gaming graphics card was important but either I&#8217;m getting old or just happy with my xbox now.</p>
<p>I bet ya Apple will be the first to come up with this spec and it&#8217;ll be at least 12 months before the PC industry catches up. Yes if Apple come out with one then I&#8217;ll be getting one but no I wont&#8217; be using OS X, more Windows 7 or 8.</p>
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		<title>Car Insurance</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2010/09/05/car-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the UK why is the average fine for not having car insurance under Â£400 ? Again it pays to not bother following the rat race ! Buy a cheep car, don&#8217;t insure it and risk getting caught and fined ! Why oh why is the system soooo stupid, totally don&#8217;t blame people for abusing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the UK why is the average fine for not having car insurance under Â£400 ? Again it pays to not bother following the rat race !</p>
<p>Buy a cheep car, don&#8217;t insure it and risk getting caught and fined ! Why oh why is the system soooo stupid, totally don&#8217;t blame people for abusing it if it actually makes sense to do so.</p>
<p>Who are the idiots here ? ?</p>
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		<title>UK Fuel Prices</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2010/05/09/uk-fuel-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 08:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Prices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filled my boring rep car (read mondeo) up with fuel today. It was Â£77.50 or $114.76 and I get about 570 miles out of that tank. Glad I don&#8217;t do many miles any more !! I&#8217;m starting to wonder how long the price can keep going up for ? Wont be long before the fuel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Filled my boring rep car (read mondeo) up with fuel today. It was Â£77.50 or $114.76 and I get about 570 miles out of that tank. Glad I don&#8217;t do many miles any more !! I&#8217;m starting to wonder how long the price can keep going up for ? Wont be long before the fuel in a car is worth more than the car itself ! Also how do families on low incomes cope ?</p>
<p>Either everyone can start walking and riding bikes more (no bad thing) or someone needs to sort out this rocks transportation problem ! But with soo many people making so much money still I doubt it&#8217;ll be any time soon.</p>
<p>No more buying any fossil based cars for me.</p>
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		<title>Glo Networks Moves On</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2010/02/04/glo-networks-moves-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glo Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Glo Networks is moving on in leaps and bounds. We have a great team working hard looking after our always happy customers. Big thank you to the team and customers so far. For the last two months we&#8217;ve been working hard with our new marketing partner Stepping Stones Marketing and we now have a [...]]]></description>
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<p>So Glo Networks is moving on in leaps and bounds. We have a great team working hard looking after our always happy customers. Big thank you to the team and customers so far.</p>
<p>For the last two months we&#8217;ve been working hard with our new marketing partner <a href="http://www.steppingstonesmarketing.co.uk">Stepping Stones Marketing</a> and we now have a great new website.</p>
<p>Today we launch our <a href="http://twitter.com/GloNetworks">Twitter</a> account and watch out for the <a href="http://blog.glo-networks.com">Blog</a> entries about to be turned up a notch.</p>
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		<title>health and safety is the undoing of evolution</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2009/08/30/health-and-safety-is-the-undoing-of-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>health and safety is the undoing of evolution</p>
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		<title>Montana Hotel, SW7 4PG</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2009/01/17/montana-hotel-sw7-4pg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Any Other]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Avoid it like the plague. Rude reception and frankly fraudulant billing practices! Staying there this weekend, more info on my return.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Avoid it like the plague. Rude reception and frankly fraudulant billing practices! </p>
<p>Staying there this weekend, more info on my return.</p>
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		<title>iPhone 3G &#8230; getting fed up</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2008/10/09/iphone-3g-getting-fed-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobiles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok so everyone loves the iphone 3G. The hype has no doubt helped make it so popular and thus just over a month ago I got one through work. Now I&#8217;ve been using Windows Mobile devices since the Compaq Aero PDA that was black and white ! I&#8217;ve probably had over 30 PDAs and phones [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align=left src="http://cconnor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/picture-2-150x150.png" alt="" title="iphone 3g" width="150" height="150">Ok so everyone loves the iphone 3G. The hype has no doubt helped make it so popular and thus just over a month ago I got one through work. Now I&#8217;ve been using Windows Mobile devices since the Compaq Aero PDA that was black and white ! I&#8217;ve probably had over 30 PDAs and phones over the years so coming to the iphone 3G was interesting. It&#8217;s got to be said that the hardware is amazing. I love having a Word document viewer, MP3 player, phone, calander and emails all on one very well made device. It works very nicely and taking and making calls on it is great. There&#8217;s no delay in pressing buttons like on a Windows Mobile PDA.</p>
<p>To tell the truth I&#8217;m already getting a bit sick of it. The lack of freedom is ruining it.</p>
<p>Why can&#8217;t I share the data connection on it ?<br />
Why can&#8217;t I use sat nav on it ?</p>
<p>Because Apple have decided that we don&#8217;t need it. Personaly I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s got anything to do with them. And as such I&#8217;m still using my HTC Touch Diamond. Why on earth do we have to put up with this ? ! Why on earth have Apple restricted all users to these rules ?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m off to Jailbreak my phone in the hope of being able to use it how I (the owner) wants to.</p>
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		<title>Southland Tales</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2008/09/05/southlanx-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just watched Southland Tales &#8230; It linda made no sence at all but was fantastic ! Yup go watch it and see what I mean . Amazing film and so different to anything I&#8217;ve every seen before. I can&#8217;t wait to watch The Box. Posted via my iPhone using the WordPress App &#8230; quite impressive [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just watched Southland Tales &#8230; It linda made no sence at all but was fantastic ! Yup go watch it and see what I mean <img src='http://cconnor.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Amazing film and so different to anything I&#8217;ve every seen before. I can&#8217;t wait to watch The Box.</p>
<p>Posted via my iPhone using the WordPress App &#8230; quite impressive really <img src='http://cconnor.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
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		<title>Buying Review &#8211; Pixmania</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2008/07/05/buying-review-pixmania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently purchased a camera from pixmania.co.uk and personally I&#8217;m going to avoid them like the plague. Their backend systems are just crazy slow &#8230; and I mean crazzzyy slow. I&#8217;ve ordered from them in the past and received my items next day so I thought I&#8217;d get the same treatment. Well apparently not - 1. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently purchased a camera from <a href="http://www.pixmania.co.uk">pixmania.co.uk</a> and personally I&#8217;m going to avoid them like the plague. Their backend systems are just crazy slow &#8230; and I mean crazzzyy slow. I&#8217;ve ordered from them in the past and received my items next day so I thought I&#8217;d get the same treatment. Well apparently not -</p>
<p>1. Item ordered July 1st at about 11am.<br />
2. By 5pm on the same day their site was showing no progress at all. Thinking there might be a payment issue I called them. Sounds like an India call as I could hardly understand what the lady was saying when I spoke to her. Turns out that there is nothing wrong but I should call back tomorrow as the &#8220;Validation&#8221; part takes 24 hours.<br />
3. July 2nd they appeared to do nothing at all.<br />
4. July 3rd it showed as validated and all the way through the ordering process.<br />
5. July 4th they bothered to ship the item.</p>
<p>What on earth took them 4  working days to ship something they had in stock !!! Either someone messed up somewhere or that&#8217;s just the way they do business. I&#8217;ll assume it&#8217;s the norm for them as they didn&#8217;t communicate an issue at any time.</p>
<p>So I defiantly wont be buying from them again anytime soon. You&#8217;ve lost me as a customer.</p>
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		<title>Nero 8 &#8230; what&#8217;s the point</title>
		<link>http://cconnor.com/2008/06/12/nero-8-whats-the-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used Nero since the days of 5 or possibly before then. I&#8217;ve also always paid for the upgrades. But I&#8217;m not thinking about Nero 8 and wondering what the point is ! I only use Nero BurningROM and Nero BackItUp, all the other junk doesn&#8217;t even get installed. So it there any point in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve used Nero since the days of 5 or possibly before then. I&#8217;ve also always paid for the upgrades. But I&#8217;m not thinking about Nero 8 and wondering what the point is ! I only use Nero BurningROM and Nero BackItUp, all the other junk doesn&#8217;t even get installed. So it there any point in me paying for the upgrade ?</p>
<p>Why not offer a Nero Lite package for people to pay for that just want the basics ? Surely I&#8217;m not the only person on the planet that would pay for that ?</p>
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