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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Filed under: Golf, Hobbies, Home, Isle of Wight
I’ve been using the BBC page for a good few years now and visit it at least once each day. This morning when I visited I see they have implemented their threat of a new design. OK, so it’s the first day of general release for the new page but I am really surprised that [...]
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Filed under: Home, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
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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Filed under: Funny, Golf, Hobbies, Isle of Wight
A week or so ago my trusty TomTom Go 500 finally gave up the ghost after almost 6 years of reliable service (see “A New Toy for 2006“). As the picture shows, it was a “sturdy” device and much deeper and heavier than the latest ones: Mine had got rather bashed about over the years [...]
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Filed under: Cars, Hardware, Home, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
At the Cáfe Scientifique meeting last night we were treated to a discussion about what will happen when the oil runs out. During the discussion afterwards there was mention of a book, ‘Sustainable Energy – without the hot air‘ which I have just downloaded as a pdf file and scanned over. After just a quick [...]
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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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Filed under: Golf, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Mates, Seasonal
Although I have always been happy with FreeSat via my Humax box, the offer of a couple of Sky Sports channels for next to nothing on BT Vision was too good to refuse. A few months ago I added the BT system to my TV and have been happy with it since. The “Sky+ like” [...]
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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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Filed under: Astronomy, Hardware, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Photography, Software, Techie
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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Filed under: Hardware, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Photography, Software, Techie, Trivia
