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Wish you were here: La Palma
Not much comics blogging at the moment I’m afraid. I’m currently in the Canary Islands for a conference/meeting on the SPIRE camera for the Herschel Space Telescope. I’m not involved with the details and I’m only really here to find out what’s going on. Still La Palma is a nice place. It reminds me a [...]
Car Phone Warehouse
I’m quite impressed with the Carphone Warehouse – I needed a new USB cable (one of those odd proprietary formats) for my mobile phone and they just gave me one. I asked them if they sold the one I wanted and they said no, but the assistant told me to hang on while he disappeared [...]
Files recovered
A few weeks ago my home computer crashed and crashed hard. It turns out that the motherboard, the main circuit board that connects all the other components, was defective. That was replaced, but my main hard-drive was scrambled during the crash. Physically the drive was fine – as least according to the amazing spin right. [...]
The Grand Computer Crash of 2008
Last Tuesday my computer froze completely and refused to power up when rebooted. The trouble I faced when diagnosing the actual fault was that I suspected it was either an issue with the graphics card or the motherboard. However, I had no components to swap out to test them with. Once I would have. Once [...]
Snow over Victoria
Ah, the joys of world travel! I’m currently in Victoria, British Columbia for a two-day meeting. The city looks lovely with a medium covering of snow, but I didn’t realise until I got here that this was fairly unusual. Back home I had this mental image Western Canada being snow/ice locked for much of the [...]
Photographs from Hungary
I’ve just spent a rather nice week at an astronomy conference in Visegrad, Hungary. It’s a little town on the banks of the Danube, about 40km away from Budapest. The people were friendly and I was pleasantly surprised to find Hungary was far more modern than I ignorantly expected. I only have a single free [...]
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