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!
When I last tried posting to WordPress from this MacBook, everything appeared as one long sentence and I had to drop the WYSIWYG interface and edit the HTML source for the post in order to make the thing readable. Hardly the best way to blog. The spec for v2.5.1 suggestes that the problem has been [...]
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I had to go over to St Lawrence at the weekend and duly entered the address details into my (previously!) trusted Tomtom GPS only to be warned that I may be driving to an area where they drive on the right!
Unless there is something I don’t know about the Southern part of the Island, the [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Hardware, Isle of Wight, Software
I had no idea what SteamPunk was when I heard it mentioned the other day, so I decided to investigate.
After a quick look around I came across The Streampunk Workshop, there’s some great work on there and it’s well worth 20 minutes of your valuable time.
Steampunk LCD
Ventnor Blog is reporting a plan to “upgrade” the facilities offered by their home town. I hope the scheme includes a bridge to the mainland… heading due South of course
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I suppose this is a case of severe cold war paranoia - the BBC website has a very interesting section about the underground complex beneath Corsham in Wiltshire - take a look at it here.
The very fact that all this has been revealed must now mean I can freely talk about going there many years [...]
Visit the UK Apple website and checkout the new feature list for Leopard. Scroll down to the section labelled ‘Instruments’ and you’ll see the following:
Global warming is happening - we now need a brolly with our Macs!
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I’d like to offer my congratulations to the person who chose the team colours for the World Cup, Scotland and NZ match this afternoon. If he sends me his address, I’ll send him a new white stick!
OK, so it wasn’t a great game anyway but it was completely spoiled by both teams playing in almost [...]
Soon, we’ll all be sick of the sight of this:
I’ve taken a couple of give-away bits off it but don’t search for it, take a guess…..If you’re still stuck take a look here.
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I was playing around on Genes Reunited the other day when I came across somebody with an ancestor called Hannah Curd from Donhead St. Andrew. Nothing particularly odd about that except that this is the first reference I have come across to a Curd in Wiltshire for the early 1800s.
Thinking it was a new breakthrough [...]
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