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All I want for Christmas is

06 November 2026

It's that time of the year when I take a look at what cool things you can get a geek or a tech-head for Christmas.

Given that it's still the first week of November and Christmas is still seven weeks away you might be tempted to say "too early mate". However, odds are that many of the must-have gifts this year will be ordered online from some foreign website so we have to allow for shipping time.

In previous years it's been pretty easy to come up with some low-cost, high-interest techy gifts but this year, perhaps not quite so much.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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