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2007 Thursday 29th March
2007 Roddy Woomble - a man with incredible talent and a learned, melodically superb silky smooth voice. Roddy is the lead singer of the highly rated Scottish group, Idlewild. He also worked with the Reindeer Section on the album Son of Evil Reindeer, providing the lead vocals on the ballad "Who Told You". And he collaborated with Kate Rusby for her 2005 album The Girl Who Couldn't Fly which was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2006 BBC Folk Awards, singing backing vocals for the songs "Wandering Soul", "Fare Thee Well", and "No Names", which was nominated for Song of the Year. He also comes across as a thoroughly nice bloke. I urge you to give him a go. Wednesday 28th March 2007 THE HIDDEN TRUTH BEHIND ADVERTISING
An industry which obviously has an awful lot in common with public relations. saturday 24th March 2007 Public relations is marvellous. How else could you get paid for traveling around the country posing as a butcher with an 8 foot tall 'trojan' pig encouraging people to buy British pork..? Wednesday 24th March 2007 A VISIT TO YPRES 
A trip to Ypres, Belgium. These pictures were taken at Tyne Cot Cemetery which is situated to the south of the village of Passendale. It is the resting place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war. The dates of death of the soldiers buried at Tyne Cot cover four years, from October 1914 to September 1918 inclusive. 8,365 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The name "Tyne Cot" is said to come from the Northumberland Fusiliers seeing a resemblance between the German concrete pill boxes, which still stand in the middle of the cemetery, and typical Tyneside workers' cottages - Tyne Cots.
Inside the cemetery two mourning angels kneel on top of dome-covered pavilions at either end of the memorial wall. A unique feature is the Cross of Sacrifice, that was erected above a German bunker that was taken by the allied forces on October the 4th 1917 at the cost of numerous human lives.
The stone wall surrounding the cemetery makes up the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing. On completion of the Menin Gate memorial to the missing in Ypres, it was discovered to be too small to contain all the names as originally planned. An arbitrary cut-off point of 15 August 1917 was chosen and the names of the UK missing after this date were inscribed on the Tyne Cot memorial instead.
These pictures were taken in The Sanctuary Wood Museum Hill 62 which is owned by the grandson of the farmer who reclaimed his land after the war. The museum has a collection of World War I items, including 3-dimensional photographs, weapons, uniforms, and bombs.
Original British trenches in a small section of the wood, known to the British Army as Sanctuary Wood, have been preserved as they were found after the war. In the 1980s a tunnel was discovered. More recently the trenches have been renovated in places.
In amongst the trenches a number of remains of bomb-shattered trees are held together with wire. Tuesday 6th March 2007 Friday 2nd March 2007 THE NIGHTMARE THAT IS 123-REG Some advice for anyone looking for a web hosting or domain registration service: if you're considering 123-reg.co.uk, read on. Despite being owned by Pipex, a quick web search will reveal they appear to be in a bit of a pickle. There are a number of websites, blogs, press articles and forums detailing customers' frustrations with the poor or non-existent customer service. It seems they've made a decent job of alienating a large proportion of their customer base due to severe technical problems with their service (notably their email forwarding), their decision not to inform any customers about these ongoing issues, and finally apparently ignoring customer emails asking for help with technical issues or complaints. My own experience with 123-reg includes a huge number of emails sent to me using 123-reg's forwarding service going astray or being severely delayed. This went on for a period of around two months (no error report was returned to the sender, so I had no idea there was a problem at the time). Because 123-reg looks after 25 domains for me, this of course, was a serious issue. True to form, 123-reg failed to respond to four emails sent to their customer service, and I was unable to get through to them on their 50p a minute premium rate technical support line. When they did respond (after two weeks), they did apologise, but claimed (incorrectly) that the problem had only lasted a week. Having used 123-reg for a number of my web design clients, I was also put in the awkward position of having to admit that a service I had previously highly recommended had failed dismally, causing them also to lose a number of emails over the same period. The latest news is 123-reg charging my credit card - without permission - for renewal of a domain that I wished to expire. Naturally, I emailed them for an explanation and to request a refund. That was weeks ago, and there has been no response. It's about time Dan Conlon, head of Pipex's 123-reg division addressed the serious issues facing his company, and for Pipex, as parent company to realise the damage being done to its reputation. Like many of you who have been in touch, I've had absolutely no response from 123-reg from emails sent weeks ago. Perhaps you'll have more luck by contacting their big cheese, Dan Conlon who is listed as heading up 123-reg. I'm assuming he is effectively their managing director, and is therefore accountable to his paying customers: dan.conlon@pipex.net. Click here to add details of your encounter. Your views of 123-reg.co.uk....
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