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Dug

21 April 201021 April 2010 by Himself

The patch of garden sometimes euphemistically known as the vegetable plot has been abandoned since the flood three years ago. Somewhat overgrown it was broken up and turned over and then cleared and levelled and is now returning to a usable state…

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The digging did turn up the usual bits of broken china, glass and slate; and a goddess of the earth appeared blinking in the sunlight….

They never turn up stuff like this on [W:Time Team].

Cheese Bread Experiment

5 April 2010 by Himself

The experimental cheese bread was not entirely successful in one way but has all been eaten so was entirely successful in a way. Stronger cheese incorporated earlier will probably improve it.

A second loaf was required for those that do not enjoy the cheese as much as others.

Ciggies and Stars

15 March 2010 by Himself

More light free pictures, with a 60 second exposure, straight from the camera without any tweaking/Photoshopping. They are large: width=1500+ pixels 100KB+ downloads…

I thought the ciggie would leave more of a continuous trail. The lighting effect is low level ambient light….

The cat climbed over the garage and caused the motion sensor light at the front of the house to come on which illuminated the bush for about half the shot…

The tree from the other side….

Feeding the snake

10 March 2010 by Himself

Feeding the snake a (once frozen but now thawed) mouse….

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I tried slowing down the snatch but it remains a blur…

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Must be time for a high speed camera methinks.

iPods iPads ePads (that’s about the size of it)

14 March 20107 March 2010 by Himself

While Apple makes us wait until the end of April for the iPad it is interesting to compare my original (2005) 1 GB iPod Shuffle and Martine’s new (2009) 8GB iPod Nano.

Mine plays music. Her not very much larger but considerably thinner one plays music… and videos and has a radio and a video camera built in and records audio memos etc. etc..

It was back in 2005 when [W:Saturday Night Live] were predicting that things would become even smaller…

Steve Jobs @ SNL – The New iPods en Yahoo! Video

But then we may not bother waiting for the iPad and just go with the ePad instead…