The last time I bought a camcorder was 2000. I bought the game-changing Sony MiniDV DCR-PC100E which, with its semi-professional high specification (pre-dating the word "pro-sumer"), revolutionised the marketplace. I paid £1099, heavily discounted from its list price of £1499. Despite my initial enthusiasm, I probably only used it half a dozen times over the following two years, so flogged it on eBay for a very generous £150.
Lost Memory of Skin
It's not everyday a critically acclaimed and popular novel covers the subject matter in Russell Banks' latest book Lost Memory of Skin. The protagonist is simply referred to as 'The Kid' – a convicted sex offender released from prison with a tracking device attached to his ankle. This device will monitor his movements for a ten year parole period, and should he venture to within 2500ft of a school or a playground, or any place where children congregate, he will be busted back to jail.
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Linux openSUSE 11.4 Installation on Dell Latitude D430
Before you start you will need a copy of the openSUSE 11.4 distribution; don't forget to verify the download if you have downloaded it - even broadband can scramble a few bits in 700MB.
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Freefall
Air Canada 143 is surely one of the most famous aircraft disasters in the history of aviation. A brand new fly-by-wire Boeing 767-200 inexplicably ran out of fuel on a flight from Montreal to Edmonton. Thanks to a series of fortuitous coincidences and the skill of Captain Pearson the stricken plane glided to a decommissioned aerodrome at Gimli, and the powerless landing resulted in no fatalities. So was born the sensational story of the Gimli Glider
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Rachel Allen's Classic Lasagne with Roast Garlic Bread
I've always eschewed making lasagne in the past because of the hassle of making both the Bolognese sauce and the Bechemel sauce, then cooking the ensemble for a further 30-40 minutes whilst the lasagne sheets soften. In reality, whilst this doesn't really represent a great deal of brute force, there is always plenty going on.
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