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2007: A poodle tale, a lost limb, a hint of chickens to come, statements of the obvious, and deceiving bishops

This is the penultimate part of my blog retrospective. 2007 was the year that saw me enter my forties. Marked by a poodle for the glory of gay gods tells the story of how my mother’s pet poodle bit the doctor who turned up too late to attend my home birth. It might arguably be not only my best headline ever, but also one of the funniest personal stories I’ve ever shared online (even though I, obviously enough, have no recollection of the events as told to me by my mum).

tags: African bishops, AIDS, amputations, bereavement, birth, cats, chickens, condoms, deception, deforestation, gay, God, HIV, hypocrisy, iMac, lies, MacBook Pro, nature, poodles, Windows

MacBook Pro and the wonder that is the Migration Assistant

My MacBook Pro came back from repair having suffered a ‘logic board failure’. I don’t know what that is, but it sounds serious and ghastly. Thanks to the wonderful Migration Assistant in OS X, it took me all of half an hour to get my applications, email, settings and documents back onto the machine via a FireWire link-up with the iMac. Windows was never easy in that regard.

tags: computers, hardware, logic board, MacBook Pro, Migration Assistant, OS X, repairs, software, Windows

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