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My main areas of interest can be divided up into three neat little groups. Science, politics and technology. I'm an astronomer and sceptic. Some of my astro-photos can be found in my gallery. Politically I'm a socialist, a member of the Yeovil Labour Party and am their parliamentary candidate for Yeovil, I'm also a member of the Labour Representation Committee and I stand for the liberation and the improvement of living standards for all working people, I don't believe that is possible with capitalism. The main areas of technology I'm interested in is computing. I'm a Microsoft MVP for Windows and am actively involved in several online communities. I also co-host a PC and console game related podcast called Gamercast.

For people offering decent employment opportunities here's my resume.

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Unsung Windows Vista feature #14567

An often overlooked feature of Windows Vista is the ability to extend - or even shrink a partition. My regular readers will know I recently picked up a Motion LE1700, it had a 3GB recovery partition built in, as I recently installed World of WarCraft on the machine I decided I needed to generate some free space.

I don't need the recovery partition as the machine is backed up to Windows Home Server, all I have to do is plug in my Xbox 360 HD DVD drive (the only optical USB drive I have) and boot from the restore CD, or the Windows Vista DVD if I want to cleanly install.

All it took to add the 3GB to the main partition was a quick trip to Disk Management.