This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
It’s been quite a while since I reported on my golf…. For the last few weeks I have been playing pretty well and last week I managed to win the club Stableford. At last.. Since leaving North Wilts for the Island my golf has been nothing but a downhill battle, just recently though, I have [...]
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I have to thank James for the video here. The quality isn’t great but it’s certainly worth a watch to see if you can recognise any of the holes after 60 odd years. You can use the controls at the bottom to go full-screen which may help make things a bit clearer (although I think [...]
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Earlier this week I got back from our annual French golf tour. We played four courses in the Caen area: Golf de Omaha Beach Le Mer Golf de Omaha Beach Le Manoir Golf de Cabourg Le Home Golf de Caen Le Vallone Rating them, in order of personal preference: Golf de Omaha Beach Le Manoir [...]
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Using the setup described below in my last post, I have now started exploring the world of astrophotography and my first attempt is shown below. To say I am pleased with it is a bit of an understatement! The original images were captured as a .mov file on a Mac laptop and then processed by [...]
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I was given a Samsung SDN-520PH CCTV camera sometime ago – thanks Mark! . It was brand new and still in its box, it is just like the one below except that mine came with no lens. I thought it might come in handy at some point for a little astronomical experimentation. That hasn’t happened [...]
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Started playing with my webcam again – assuming it can cut through the pipe smoke, you may be lucky enough to spot me!
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The nearest star to the Earth is the Sun which is about 150,000,000 km (150 million) away. The next nearest star is Proxima Centauri at about 40,000,000,000,000 km (40 million, million) It takes about 8.5 minutes for light from the Sun to reach us. It takes about 4.2 years for light from Proxima Centauri.
Saturday saw my best round at Shanklin and Sandown GC since I moved to the Island. Even though it was a competition game (monthly Stableford – Whites) I managed to score 42 points (21 front and 21 back). It’s been coming for a month or so but at last I managed a “blob free” 18 [...]
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I’ve just spent hours trying to attach a 42″ LG LCD TV to a computer and getting it to work as it should. Finally it works! The big problem was getting it to display with its full resolution; as it’s a full HD device the vertical should have been 1080 and the supplied datasheet showed [...]
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All safe and well but pretty much stuck indoors here on the Island where we have another coating of snow. Despite global warming or perhaps because of it (!), for the third time in 12 months we can’t easily get out of the house. I’m pretty sure the main roads are all passable but as [...]
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