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  • Con Crud

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    The so-called Con Crud, that low grade illness that so often happens after a convention, arrived early, I’m assuming because of time zone confusion. Or just a lot of air travel and airports. It seems to be, as it were, buggering off, but I’m still a bit wiped, and was getting an amount of “You…

  • Trying to sum up the NZ portion of the trip, …

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    I’d intended to do my standard “blog all of the things until people are totally sick of the sound of your typing” thing for this trip, but as it turned out, I didn’t. Oddly, the reason wasn’t laziness, or at least wasn’t all laziness; I found it difficult to think of the Auckland & Wellington…

  • Getting There

    Getting There

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    Nymphadora made sure to tell me, as I left this morning, how much she would miss me.And my ability to open food sachets. I actually got some work done, fixing some code I’d written, then documenting the damn thing while I still remembered what the requirements were.Also discovered that our version control system had decided…

  • Sun. Beer. Music. Inescapable Football

    Sun. Beer. Music. Inescapable Football

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    To be honest, this is mostly a post so that I can try linking images from Instagram into CraigBlog. Just so you know. A group from work made the arduous journey to Haddenham for the beer festival. Naturally, we did brunch first. The setup is a big sun-baked field, with a stage where bands¹ did…

  • A Bit Of A Test-Pack

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    This holiday, because I’m doing a round-trip through NZ, gives me a chance to get some stuff from storage & bring it to the UK. More importantly, curated stuff; I’m sure it’d be possible to get everything moved, but that’s not much use until & unless there’s a place to move it to. All of which…

  • Let It Snow?

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    The news has a cutesy rhyming name for the storm which is bringing so very much snow to these parts. They can keep said name, because it’s stupid. So, we’ve had the Working In A Snowglobe thing the last few days. Also, the canal froze a bit. And then a bit more. Yes, that’s a…

  • Google Image Search To The Rescue

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    I currently have some form of lurgh, so this may descend into even less comprehensible ramblings than usual Back in 2016. at the start of my trip around the USA, I stayed in a hotel with some … unusual … wall art; This was in the corridor. On the walls of the room itself were…

  • Yearly Tube Map Challenge

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    Some time ago, I ran into a set of ‘rules’ for tracking how much of the London Underground you’ve used in a year. That version had the counter starting on New Year’s Day, but I chose Boxing Day, mostly because the tube wasn’t running on Christmas Day. Me being me, I decided to map it.…

  • A Christmas Market Straight Out Of Doctor Who

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    In my experience, if I try to do some form of grand summing up of an event with lots of bits, I get bored partway through. So let’s not do that. Instead, let’s talk Christmas Markets. This is the one in Leicester Square, which I visited while wandering around on Christmas Eve, and where I…

  • Contributing to the Global Nollidge Base

    Contributing to the Global Nollidge Base

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    Every so often I’m reminded of my alleged contributions to the global store of … let’s call it knowledge … over on Google Maps. Places I’ve reviewed, information I’ve provided, and photos I’ve uploaded. As I type this, 1216 people have viewed this image, taken on the mound by Oxford Castle; it looks like I’m…