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Deal Pier
The other weekend I drove down to Deal Castle and while I was there, checked out the pier. It has a cool split-level end used for fishing (with a restaurant on top). Apparently there's a third l...
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Making a Logitech mouse work in Snow Leopard
While I'm on the Snow Leopard kick, here's a useful fix to get custom buttons back on your Logitech mouse in Snow Leopard (thanks to Rich for the link). The important bit was the last for me: copy...
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Making Network Connect work in Snow Leopard
Having installed Snow Leopard yesterday, today I tried to use the Juniper Network Connect app to connect to a VPN and it failed with an error at the point of creating a secure connection. Luckily ...
Yellowstone
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, 18th July 2009
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Canon 5D Mark II
Just in time for a two week trip to the USA with my brother Christian, I bought a Canon 5D Mark II. While I always try to take lots of photos on holiday, now I'll be trying to take some nice video ...
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Lovebox launches
Darshan and the House London crew just launched their first project, Lovebox, "a digital wristband to help raise money and awareness for different charities around the world via the web". The id...
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Dover
Last Sunday I drove down to Dover (still not sure why) with Ken and took a load of photos. I also decided to start playing with HDR to see if I could do non-hideous HDR photos. I'm not there yet,...
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His Girl Friday
Being a child of the '80s I missed a lot of 'classic' films and have tended to shy away from anything in black and white unless I can't be bothered to change channel or move away from the TV, but t...
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'no such file to load -- readline' error with Rails script/console
Having just hit this issue on my server where I'd recompiled Ruby from source, apparently on doing so you need to compile the readline library yourself as well. There's a good how-to at dirk.net (...
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Royal Naval College, Greenwich