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Yet again the US server hosting the blog failed… and this time the Data Centre took *two days* to repair/replace it which is ridiculous in anyone’s terms!!! All these high end servers are constructed with a RAID array, i.e. multiple hard discs, to provide multiple ‘fail-safe’ redundancy so that if one should fail, or if … More We're back: Server Outage!!
The garden is usually full of flowers… or it is when I’d be able to work on it and give the plants the right conditions to flower. Even so there is one flower than appeals to me more than the others, and this is it… my two year old Begonia hybrid! 🙂 As you see, … More Favourite flowers: Begonia hybrid
I made a few posts last week about the wildlife in the garden. The amphibians were just one of the species I neglected to mention. They forcefully reminded me they were there when I was outside this morning! I heard quiet splashing splashing and found a frog in the dogs bowl! No doubt it had … More Frog in a manger!
The first decent camera I had was bought from Dixon’s in the UK some 20+ years ago. I forget the make, but it was a pretty good SLR that came with a great little lens. The pictures I took are still clear and bright… and obviously it used 35 mm film. It got damaged a … More A lens on the world.
Thinking of the problems the neighbour has started me wondering what would happen if someone wanted open a business in our street. I eventually got round to wondering what if *we* opened a business… and the only one I could see someone as idle as me coping with would be running a small ‘hostel’ type … More A nice little earner!
A neighbour arrived just after dinner tonight. She was carrying a petition she wanted us to sign asking that planning permission be denied for a residential property backing on to them to be converted into a dentist’s surgery. When we bought this piece of land. the developers put all sorts of covenants on the sale … More What price a dentist?
Yet again it’s raining over Sydney… and on top of it… and around it. In fact it seems the entire area has become waterlogged by the continuous downpours of recent weeks. As said before this isn’t really a complaint as such. We still desperately need the rain up on the catchment area to fill the … More Rain over Sydney
What’s new on the mouse saga you ask? Well last night the cat caught the mouse once more. Unfortunately… for us if not the mouse… the visitors seeing the cay once again batting the mouse around, decided to intervene and during the ensuing melee… the mouse again made its escape. I was *so* pleased when … More More on the mouse!
A couple of posts ago I was talking about the size of the webs we’ve been getting in the garden. The wife suggested I wet the webs to make them stand out more… so I tried it. It wasn’t a raging success because the others were either invisible against their backgrounds or were so indistinct … More The fat lady sings… almost.
Finally got voice and pictures organised with the UK… I can finally talk to the oldies and see pictures at the same time. We’ve been trying to use MS-Messenger… (Windows Live version) for a while but we just couldn’t get both voice and picture working. However my father and I have both installed Skype which … More The Masters Voice
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