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Monday, May 12, 2008 8:04 PM

In the garden : Autumn wrap up

Autumn is here: In the orchard all the crops are in. The last was of course the Chestnuts: As you can see, Chestnuts have a prickly outer shell: Given this thorny outer defense, I was wondering what could possibly be eating them. As I discovered the Rosellas...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 4:39 PM

Birds in my veggie garden

As I write this I'm looking out the window into my veggie garden where the rosellas are having a feast on the sunflowers again. There was so much activity around my sunflowers and tomatoes (probably an exquisite combination for the birds... actually...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:31 AM

no triffids there ?

I'm in utter disbelieve that people don't automatically know the 1962/63 cult classic film, " the day of the triffids "
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Friday, March 07, 2008 11:52 AM

Local hawks

Nearing midday today I could hear the local hawks calling to each other, so I decided to try to get a picture of them with my new camera . The below shots are taken at full zoom ! That's 18x optical plus some digital taking it up to about 27x. I just...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:21 AM

Who said summer's over ?

Doesn't look like it to me :)
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:17 AM

In the garden :February 2008 wrap-up

February certainly has been a month of plenty :) In the Orchard: The fresh eating blood plums have come and gone (most deliciously). The last of the blood plums are still on the trees, and are nice for making jam. I've been adding Nashi and some apple...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:05 PM

More on videos from Lang.NET symposium

If you want to download the videos to watch later, or to happily play them faster, skip ahead etc, then you can grab the .wmv files instead of having to watch them in a browser in silverlight. I like to increase the play speed in parts and silverlight...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:37 PM

Microsoft thinks VB programmers are so "special" ...

I was flicking through some MSDN help pages, when I noticed this topic on Component Authoring: Isn't it nice how "special" Microsoft views VB folks. Obviously anyone using C# doesn't have this issue, it's just the people using VB...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:26 PM

Sunflowers

For fun I thought I'd plant some sunflowers this year. I have to confess this is the first time I think I have ever grown them in my life... shameful almost ;) Hopefully they might bear some seeds for me to nibble on. This one I took a snap of t'is...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:35 PM

And the beer was ....

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Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:55 AM

Fixing explorer in Vista

One of the most annoying things I have found about Vista is the file explorer. It constantly changes the views of folders and way too often sets the columns in a folder as if the folder contains photos when it doesn't. To me that is really disappointing...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:09 PM

Blood plums

The blood plums are in season now. Apart from lovely eating fresh, last night I found they cook really well with ripe Nashi fruit, balances the flavours superbly. The Nashi sweeten them much like pear juice is used in conserves. This is really handy,...
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