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  Looking back at the year that was 2006

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January

Robert and myselfThursday - 5th January 2006: I installed Fedora Core 4, on my laptop. Since I have heard it's good. It took me most of the night to get it installed. But I got there in the end.

In the evening my boyfriend Rob and myself went to my works party. Which was at the Peterborough Greyhound Stadium. We both had a good night and fun night. Rob liked it, since at long last, we got to meet lots of the people that I work with. Monday - 23th January 2006: I started going test runs, of a podcast.

Friday - 27th January 2006: Was great, since I got my Humax PVR-9200T. Which is much the same idea as $ky+, but it's for Freeview. It's does cool things like. Let's you watch one channel, when recording another one. Record 2 channels at once while watching a previous recording. It can also record up to 100 hours of TV programs on it's 160 GB hard drive.

February

Thursday - 9th February 2006: I got clipless pedals for my bike. So I spend a good number of hours, taken off my old pedals, then putting on the new clipless pedals. Doing that bit, was the easy bit. The hard bit was working out how to change and get the settings right. Lucky while looking on the Internet I found a great website on how to do it. So if like me you, have never had clipless pedals, before. Then check out www.chainreactionbicycles.com/pedalfaq.htm. It tells you everything that you need to know.

In the evening. I made up my mind to be brave and go out a cycle, with my clipless pedals, for the very first time. I was just, a bit worried I, would come off my bike. I have heard all the stories of people when they first use them, taking a while to get use to them. And not getting there feet out it time, when they stop. You will be glad to hear, I took to it like a duck to water and did not come off. Thank god.

Wednesday - 22nd February 2006: It was Rob and myself's two year anniversary.

March

Sony FV-420B Vocal Mic photoThursday - 9th March 2006: Rob and myself broke up today. After just over 2 years of going out. Things have just not been 100% right for a while.

Friday - 17th March 2006: I got a new microphone that I ordered from Amazon.co.uk a number of weeks ago. So I had fun recording, episode 7 of my podcast, with my new microphone.

 
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