Martin McDowell's Blog

After being called out, out of hours, at 8pm and then just after going to bed at midnight I was awoken by the pager at 4:50 this morning. Just as I was calling the call centre my mobile went off. This was a full-on alert. The call centre told me that they received a call [...]

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Now I was not brilliant in maths but I am still hoping my calculations are at least approximately correct. Shell is the most simple to calculate so lets start with them. I tried to calculate how many litres of diesel I had to use to get 100 airmiles. I used the Petrolprices.com website for my [...]

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Here are some photos taken from the beach. They were filming some sort of fight scenes on the beach itself. The whole beach was off limits and only the coastal path was open to the public. If you are tempted to have a look at the filmset you can approach it on the Angle road [...]

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Drugo soboto v maju so imeli v neki dvorani v Pembroke Dock-u (od tu kakšnih 15 min stran) avdicijo za statiste, ki naj bi igrali v junijskemu snemanju filma na lokaciji, kjer prav zdaj poteka snemanje za nekaj prizorov Harrya Potterja. Mest je bilo samo za nekaj sto, pred dvorano pa se jih je zbralo [...]

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I don’t intend to just mention when companies do bad things. It should also ne noticed when they do some good things as well. I recently bought an iPhone from O2 so I had to switch my mobile operator from T-Mobile to O2. I explained this to T-Mobile and asked them if they could send me [...]

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Danes (14. marca 2009) se je po TV in časopisju v Veliki Britaniji na dolgo in široko pisalo o najnovejšem načinu, kako bo država opazovala (beri: kontrolirala) še dodaten del našega življenja in sicer potovanje v tujino. Tu seveda Britanci ne bi bili Britanci, če bi se v to smatralo tudi potovanje v druge EU [...]

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Danes zjutraj so na Britanskih TV postajah predvajali video, ki ga je časopisna hiša The Sun posnela z novopečenima otroškima staršema. Britanija je že sicer znana kot prva v številu mladoletnih nosečnic samo ta primer te pa kar malo zmrazi. Oče je sicer star trenutno 13 let, bil pa je 12, ko je spočel otroka [...]

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Veliko hecov se je že razvilo na ta račun in ka nekaj sem jih verjetno začel sam. V večini so kar upravičeni in ravno te dni imam to srečo opazovat v praksi, ko v tej državi, v kateri trenutno živim, popadajo v stanje absolutne panike, ko jim pade bela snov iz nebes. Kot prvo ne [...]

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I had the opportunity to sample a great studio-grade professional foot pedal from a company called Line6. The machine is called a POD XT Live and was lent to me for a few days by a friend. On the website the POD XT Live is described as an »uncomplicated, gig-ready tone machine that’s portable and [...]

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This is actually the first proper review of my blog, the first article about it was in regards to the tragic plane crash that happened in January 2008. Read the article on my blog about it here, here and here or go to the Drugi Svet website. This other review just popped-up yesterday and I [...]

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Started off while it was still dark. Plan A was going to ski on Krvavec. No plan B at that time. Just as we left Cerklje there was a suspicious hold-up in the traffic which turned out to be due to the great number of cars – all heading for the same ski resort. My [...]

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After going through the fiasco of Swalec charging me 10x more through the meter reading by adding an extra decimal to my gas usage I have found out thatthe person or persons reading meters in our areas should have a comprehensive educational refresher course in meter reading. Read the article here… A few days ago [...]

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I have now managed to send off the container to the manufacturer Aerodyne in Florida. I have just driven back from Swansea where I send off the container through a DHL ServicePoint location in the Parc Tawe Staples shop. Great service, if you ask me, as you don’t have to pay a high price to [...]

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This will be my public consumer awareness post. Just for those who don’t know me, I have not lived in the UK for many years so I had no real idea how much utilities cost. Sure you can compare prices between different companies but its difficult to know, how much you spend. However I always [...]

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Ravno se je končala zaključna slovesnost Olimpijskih iger v Pekingu in oči so seveda že zazrte v London, ki bo gostil naslednje OI leta 2012. Tu se mnogi sprašujejo, kako bodo OI uspele Britancem (ker živim v Veliki Britaniji »tu« pomeni v Britaniji in ne v Sloveniji). V primerjavi s Kitajsko VB ni ravno velika [...]

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It is possible, at least if the suspicions of a hacker »Stryde Hax« a.k.a. Mike Walker are true. There is a possibility that the Chinese gymanst He Kexin that won the gold medal at the uneven bars at the Beiging olympics in 2008 was born 01-Jan-1994 and not 01-Jan-1992 as the Olympic website now states, [...]

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Če izgleda, da bom delal reklamo za WordPress, potem ste prebrali prav. Tale blog, ki ga trenutno gledate (poleti, leta gospodovega 2008), deluje v spletni aplikaciji, ki se ji reče WordPress. Blog sem začel pisati konec 2006 na Googlovem Bloggerju (a.k.a. Blogspot-u) a mi je bilo dosti omejene funkcionalnosti, ki jo je nudil Google. Kupil [...]

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I saw this somewhere on the internet and found it hilarious. I apologise to any US citizen if he/she is offended but this is really good! To The citizens of the United States of America: In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we [...]

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Well, its more of an orthopedic course but this makes a better title Thi splace should be about 3 hours from Haverfordwest but ended up over 4 as there was a car accident in somewelshnamedplacewithlotsoflettersandhardlyanyvowels. This was on the A40 ut before and after the accident this was one of the most enjoyable roads to [...]

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I was very surprised to hear that the British Queen Elisabeth II. is to visit Slovenia soon. The official press release can be seen HERE. The original press release on 26-Jun-2008 read: Buckingham Palace press releases ANNOUNCEMENT OF STATE VISITS TO SLOVENIA AND SLOVAKIA 26 June 2008 THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS [...]

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