Welcome to my blog

Just a page for me to test the NextGEN gallery options and my stylesheet changes.
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I think everyone is familiar with the Led Zepplin classic Stairway to Heaven. It came out on Led Zepplin IV, which also featured the magnificent blues “When the Levee Breaks”, one of my favourite Led Zepplin tracks and a re-arrangement of an older song.

There have been many parodies of the song, many serious versions and a reference to “no Stairway to Heaven” in the original Wayne’s World film. This page looks at some of the serious and not so serious versions.
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I travel with work a lot, normally across all parts of Asia-Pacific. I’ve been doing it for some time now and have got most of the routine parts down pat.

One of the great tools for a frequent business traveler is the APEC card. When you apply for one, you are given clearance to enter the member countries (18 economies around AP and nearby) for three years. This saves the hassle of getting letters from employers in other countries and spending hours lining up outside consulates to get forms processed.

There is one key economy in Asia-Pacific that does not participate in the scheme; India. This is a pity, as getting a Visa for India is one of the most painful of endeavours. If you have ever dealt with Indian bureaucracy, you will know what I mean; they took the worst of the British bureaucracy and made it worse. This week I have had the joys of going through this again.
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In an earlier post I talked about getting this site up and running, then setting up a plugin to get the Gallery2 to WP integration working.

The next tasks were to get the Google Maps and YouTube plugins working, which is the topic of this post.
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This is another test, and hopefully I’m not doing the “new blogger, blogs about absolutely anything” thing. But I’m still playing with what works in a blog and what doesn’t; plus whether I’m adding any value to the great toilet wall that is the internet. This is a look at different versions of Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing.
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