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A new family has come to our church and the 5 kids make up an awesome band. Named Freak Morice they played on Friday night for a school chaplaincy fund raising movie night we held.

I videoed them using my mobile phone camera and with their permission uploaded them to YouTube. Check out the Freak Morice MySpace site. All their songs are original written and composed material. They range in age from 16 to 8 in age. I have uploaded 5 videos to my Alborath YouTube account.

I had a long term client come to me on Monday with his PC crashed. He went to bed Sunday night and it was working fine and Monday morning it had gone into an endless boot loop. Fortunately he had backups (I have trained him well).

We tried numerous things to get the drive to boot including safe mode and so on to no avail. The drive seemed to be physically OK so I copied all the data off the drive before trying a few more things. I ran a chkdsk on the drive and fixed errors. No luck. Then I finally did a fixmbr and fixboot command from inside the windows XP recovery console. These reported back as working, but it still refused to boot.

Finally to save the customer time I offered to rebuild his PC. Here is where the fun really started.

In this version of SpyJournal (its the third website I have had) there have been some stand out blog posts. Here is the list of the top 10 all time favourite posts:

Excel 2007 Conditional Formatting

Microsoft Releases Word 2007 Viewer for Reading docx Documents (written by Lena)

The reality of the Internet

Web Feeds and Links

How we use technology at work, school and play

Multiple Monitors

Expelled the Movie - No Intelligence Allowed

Windows Home Server and SBS2003

The Internet, Pornograpy, Filters and Sexual Predators

One side effect of being sick and not eating ( I have had 2 pieces of toast in the last 36 hours) is the weight loss - I was down to 110.9KGs this morning!

My goal is to get below 110 so it was nice seeing that number on the scales this morning. I suspect I will go back up a kg or two once I start eating again. I have lost several kgs lately as my exercise levels have ramped up with basketball and AFL. I was sitting on 113 or so before being sick.