What had we done to deserve this, a second sunny day on a bank holiday weekend? At least, if you don’t live in the west of the country, it was sunny – the forecast seemed to be cutting the country…
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A Break from Paper Hanging
With Odo weather being as scarce as rocking horse shit this year, I’ve been using the depressingly bad start to the new dragonfly season constructively by redecorating the lounge. However, something went wrong with the UK weather pattern: whereas any…
Off to a Start at Sandhouse
We landed back in the UK from Spain on Saturday to our traditional welcome of varying forces of rain and wind with temperatures staggering up to the dizzying heights of 12°C. Yuk! Bloody marvelous! Mind you, our trip down to…
Signs of Spring
As every Odonata watcher knows, the first to emerge at the start of a new season is most often the Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula). One was sighted almost two weeks ago in Norfolk – an individual that I can…
False Start
One of my favourite on-line Odonata communities is UK Dragonflies. They seem a particularly friendly bunch of enthusiasts, so much so that I made a trip to meet some of them by the river Thames in search of the Common…
Data Protection Acts #3: The Cloud
As every decent IT professional knows, offsite backups of critical data are a good idea to protect against things like ones building burning down, being flooded in our increasingly wet climate or being landed on by a not-quite-passing Boeing Dreamliner.…
Data Protection Acts #2: External Hard Drive
There is nothing like the frighteningly unwelcome appearance of a BSOD [Blue Screen Of Death] as ones computer crashes to enforce the backup lesson that one learned almost a year previously. As well as on less than 100% reliable DVDs,…
Data Protection Acts #1: DVDs
Recent silence has been due to a combination of two major factors, (bloody) Christmas and a serious amount of investigative work. The investigative work stemmed directly from my Dell-inquent Computers. Having never before suffered from a computer failure, my two…
Dell-inquent Computers
Almost two years ago, I acquired my first laptop computer, a Dell Inspiron 1545. Within just a couple of months of its purchase I began experiencing failures which I eventually tracked down to a faulty hard drive, as reported New…
Helpful Suggestions
Have you ever taken much notice of the artwork on some packaged food items? We don’t generally buy a whole lot of processed food but those that come complete with so-called “serving suggestions” have frequently given me some entertainment. A…
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