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These things come up fast
Can’t believe that another one of these Christmas days has snuck up on me. Oh well. A good meal was had by all. Cheers
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Why oh why
One of the annoying things about Win32 has always been the fixed sized dialogs. You know how it is when some program pops up a dialog with a lot of information in it, but is modal and small (presumably so it will fit on 640×480 screens, or worse). Then you are stuck scrolling around…. I…
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The power of one…
I love the geographically challenged. Owning a WD external drive I thought I’d get another one, this time with firewire since my laptop has it available. After tooling about trying to find an Australian vendor, I thought I’d check out WD’s website, at least they should be able to point me to local resellers. The…
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Why is my car handling funny?
Hmm, several hours into a drive to see my dad, I thought it might be time to stop and take a break…it seemed like I was wandering about the road a little…. Bang! Looks like I ran over something. Wish I hadn’t, no serious harm done, but bad luck is still bad.
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Oh, is that what it means
I’ve been gaining confidence in the whole morning greeting thing. Bonjour, easy enough. When you are working from a script, it all goes well until people start hitting you with the variations. So this morning as I’m greeting people, I meet the secretary, “bonjour” I say, “something something something” she say in return. I assume…
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Strasbourg
Off to Strasbourg. Longer trip, 1.5 hours, more interesting countryside and canals. The cathedral here has is undergoing a big clean (there has been a major program all of France it seems). The stone here is not the very pale sand colour of elsewhere, more of a red. The spire is very finely carved and…
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Nancy
The former regional captial. Bigger than Metz, a lot more guilding, older archetecture feel and so on. Went to the school of the arts museum and the art gallery. Both interesting but quirky. (what regional museum isn’t). Spent a bit of time in the main park. Children’s zoo, peacocks roaming wild, stealing food and all…
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Paris
I went back to Paris last weekend to pick May up from the airport. Since I had a few hours to kill before she would arrive it was an excellent chance to go for a long walk around some of the parts I knew from my last visit in 2006: Opera, Montmartre & Scaré Coeur.…
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How to book TGV tickets
When I booked tickets from Australia we had a hard time using the TGV/SNCF website. Since I was going to pickup tickets in France, we selected France as the country to pick them up in. If you do that, you get no language choice after that, French for you. It was quite a trial, including…
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Luxembourg
On spec I took the TER to Luxembourg. Travelling anywhere by train here seems to be fun. The shear scale of investment in trackwork. Why we thought it was a good idea to unload cars in Port Kembla then truck them up Mt Ousley back to Sydney I don’t know. Of course you see endless…