Lost at Wharncliffe woods dh trails - steel pendant

I was riding at Wharncliffe woods on sunday (26th September), for the first time ever. Some how, even though I only live an hour away, I'd never got around to it. Maybe it's because most of my mates ride xc, or just that I'm actually quite lazy.

The dh trails there are amazing though, and a real credit to the guys at Wharncliffe Riders Collective - technical, rocky, rooty, fast and burly. Proper UK downhill, not like the sterile, manicured trails at most trail centres, but good proper stuff that makes you work for it, and the rewards are all the greater as a result.

The downside, however, was that I lost my steel pendant from around my neck (pictured). It was a present from my wife a few years ago, and I'm quite pathetically sentimental about it. I'm not sure which trail I lost it on, as we rode a few different ones, and pushed up a few different routes too. If anyone finds it, I'll find something to give you in return - beer / wine / bike parts / good karma / cuddles (everyone like cuddles).

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360 IT

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From: "Tom Geraghty" <tom.geraghty@berrybros.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 07:26
Subject: 360 IT
To: <tom.geraghty@yahoo.co.uk>

Today, I'm going to the 360 IT show at Earls court. I've been to IT shows like this before, but I think this might be a new one - it certainly is to me.
I'm looking forward to it though, and I think it'll be really useful. I need to check out storage and backup technologies primarily, as that's probably our biggest business issue right now in relation to IT.
I'd also like to check out some of the fuss about "cloud computing", outsourcing IT support, inter-site connectivity, and mobile technologies.

Tom Geraghty
IT Manager
42 Headlands

Kettering
Northamptonshire
NN15 7HR

tom.geraghty@berrybros.com
Tel: 01536 532380
Fax: 01536 482517
Mobile: 0788 1914623

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"Unlimited" data tariffs: What's a true fair use limit?

I'm with Orange for my mobile contract, and data hiccups notwithstanding, quite satisfied. When I signed up, however, I asked for their "unlimited" data tariff, which (at the time) I was told had a 500MB "fair use" limit. 500MB? Really? If 500MB is fair use, then what's standard usage? Do Orange expect people to use less than a couple hundred MB per month? I asked them what they could do to increase the limit, and was told I could bolt on another 500MB for an extra tenner, but I (rightly) guessed that probably wouldn't be enough either.

As it turns out, they're able to bolt on one of the low-end datastick tariffs, which turns out as £9 for 10GB per month. Since then, I've been merrily downloading and munching on data without any fear of incurring extra fees.

I don't believe that I'm a particularly heavy user - I listen to podcasts, a little bit of internet radio, use twitter a lot, a bit of web, a bit of facebook, various web apps, and a little video too. Yet, I consistently go over 1GB per month, and sometimes 2GB. If I'm using this, there must be a considerable number of people using significantly more.

What sort of data volumes do you reach per month? And what do you think would be a true "fair use" limit?

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