to know that there is something in the world called a Pleasing Fungus Beetle.
Month: June 2009
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For All Your Pipeline Condition Assessment and Leak Detection Needs
I’m sure that if I had muncipal water assets to manage, I’d use the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company (PPIC) | Pipeline Condition Assessment and Leak Detection to detect money-wasting leaks …
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I’m all about the Black Sesame Soy Drink
Seriously, Sahmyook Black Sesame Soy Drink is amazing. A really rich, nutty, smoky flavour. It’s quite hard to come by – I bough a case of the tiny cartons today for $25 in P.A.T. Market East.I think it would be a hit if marketed to non-Korean folks. Sahmyook have an office in Thornhill, so the revolution starts there.
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spiders have flown
The garden spiders have flown the coop, and set up all round the garden. I don’t know how many of their little webs I had to scoop out of the deck before I started staining it.
(incidentally, if you like spider pics, Opo Terser makes wonderful ones. My desktop now features this little cutie [caution: will squick out arachnophobes])
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531 would never do this …
Busted Carbon shows some fancy broken bikes. Never ride anything that doesn’t have metal to metal contact.
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Billy Faier – The Five String Banjo
Long-neck banjo genius Billy Faier has put all of his albums on his website for free download. These are amazing works. Donations (details on his site) are welcome.
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spiders on their birthday
We found thousands of these yellow and black spider hatchlings in the garden this morning. Happy birthday, little spiders!They are apparently (European) Garden Spiders, Araneus diadematus.
(I over colour-corrected the original photo; it’s here if you preferred it.)
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a very old place
I just found a very old version of my website from around 2002: Stewart C. Russell.
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the automatic podcast, by sheevaplug
I’ve now got the automatic podcast running on the sheevaplug. Because I can’t so easily re-encode mp3s, I’ve had to come up with a different way to make the podcast. The file is much larger, but the sound quality should be better.
It might be a few days before it runs from the sheevaplug every day.
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the nearest, uh, wind things to my house
Are on and by the garguntuan new Zellers:
I hesitate to call them wind turbines, as they are pretty dismally sited. Doubt they’ll generate much. There’s also a wee solar array next to them. -
adding long distance codes to Apple’s Address Book
This is very North America-centric, but then, so is long distance dialling madness. If your phone isn’t correctly syncing the phone numbers because you haven’t put in country codes, try Apple – Support – Discussions – Adding 1 to all phone numbers in ….
I changed the “1” in the code to “+1” so all my numbers are international by default.
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tasty korean noms
… can be had locally from P.A.T. Market East, at 1973 Lawrence Avenue E (near Warden). Black sesame soymilk is me. All I need now is the fabulous Korean steel chop sticks and spoon combo, and my utensil joy is complete.
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mercifully gore free
So I shaved with an open razor for the first time today. Not a proper hollow-ground steel, but a shavette, which is a handle that takes regular rzor blades split in half. With only one tiny cut, I managed to kinda get a proper shave, but it was slow. The ergonomics of it are weird; to hold it comfortably, you can barely see the blade in the mirror.
I had to finish off shaving with my regular Merkur.
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“Open”, “Save” or “Save As” dialog box default settings – Windows XP
“Open”, “Save” or “Save As” dialog box default settings – Windows XP
Open a common dialog box, change the view to the one you want, and then hit Ctrl/Cancel. Yes, it’s counterintuitive, but this solution is in Ed Bott’s book “Windows XP Inside and Out” and it works.Yes, it does. Mostly. It’s got all the consistency for which Windows is justly famous.
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let’s hope not in the British sense …
Joe Clark’s ‘The Cranky Copyright Book’ launches tomorrow.
