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Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 2
Having rolled home around 00:45 on Saturday (Oysterband ran long due to encores), I slept in a bit. Decided to wander over to the Festival around 11:30 A.M., and looked for lunch. Fortune smiled, and there was a Caribbean food stand offering curried mutton, saltfish fritters, jerk chicken and more. Enquired after the curried mutton,…
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Warwick Folk Festival, and the Great Western Pub – part 1
It was the Warwick Folk Festival over the weekend just gone, and I decided that I should enjoy summer while itโs here. Nipped down to the ticket office on Friday afternoon, purchased a ticket for the entire weekend, and then zipped home after work to grab the D80, lenses, flash, and battery packs. Hopped on…
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Cutting my electricity usage
Iโve been bitten by the โhow much electricity am I using?โ bug recently โ prompted by looking at my 6-monthly statement from my current electricity supplier. $work happens to have a utilities component to it, so I asked if I could borrow one of our in-the-house whole-house electricity monitors to see if an offer for…
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Nostalgia Revisited: Synchronet, LORD, TW2002, RIP, QWK
Something sparked in my brain the other day that I really wanted to play Land of Devastation again, and while I was at it, TradeWars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon might be a good idea too. So, off on my hunting I went, exercising my Google-Fu in the quest to find a BBS…
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Whoa, it’s April
And mid-way through April at that. UberCon X is next weekend, and Iโll be going – carry-on is already packed with the camera and some basic clothing (in case my checked luggage vanishes). Train and bus tickets are purchased, just have to arrange the journey to the local train station. Been playing with Lightroom 2,…
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Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
Went karting last night with the guys from work (work paid). It was a blast, but Iโm paying for it this morning. My boss, ever so smartly, has taken today off – but some of us have to be in to keep the department running! Arms hurt, back hurts (bruised on the spinal area), shoulder…
