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Christmas Is Coming (Apparently)
Well, I’ve received my first [tag]Christmas[/tag] catalogue. I’m unwilling to accept even the arrival of the autumn, let alone winter. (Maybe it’s [tag]global warming[/tag]…) To be fair, the RNLI catalogue wasn’t purely Christmassy, but it does have ‘snowy morning’ 1000-piece puzzles and mulled wine whisk sets. Is it too early to even mention the ‘[tag]holiday…
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Wasted Energy
This [tag]short film[/tag], produced for Greenpeace, explains how our power infrastructure in the [tag]UK[/tag] wastes an enormous amount of [tag]energy[/tag]. I’m no eco-nut*, and wouldn’t usually support Greenpeace, but this is a noteworthy issue and ‘[tag]decentralised energy[/tag]‘ does appear to have considerable merit. It is 18 minutes long, but worth watching (or at least listening…
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Green Packaging
Sainsbury’s has started using fully compostable packaging for 500 of its products. Sainsbury’s say that this will save 4010 thousand tonnes of [tag]fossil fuel[/tag] each year, with the added benefit of saving 3550 tonnes of plastic, an embarrasing amount of which would have gone to landfill. Friend of the Earth were typically negative, saying (with…
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Kenya: Reef Walk: Starfish
On the last full day of the holiday, after the gf had injured her foot, I went on a guided walk out to the reef. It was about a kilometer out, and I was shown various creatures by the beach boy (who was probably my age actually). This is a male starfish (the females are…
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Kenya: Safari: Zebras
You probably want to see less of me, and more of the animals, so: Zebras Hosted on Zooomr Notice the fuzzy manes on the young ones.
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Kenya: Hotel Pool: Me Swimming
The drip-feed continues… This is me in the hotel pool on one of the three (iirc) wet’n’windy days. My gf had hurt her foot by this point so was taking photos, and I wanted the exercise. Hotel Pool Me Swimming Hosted on Zooomr Note the swim-up bar, where (as at the other bars at the…
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Bounce Spam?
I, like a lot of people, get a lot of [tag]spam[/tag] [tag]email[/tag]s. I get a lot of these via a catch-all, but I’m now turning that off. Should I bounce or just ignore those messages? I’d like to think that the spammers would be put off by emails bounced back to them, but think I…
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Working Nights
My girlfriend is starting her first week (7 days) of night shifts, and I’m going to try to do the same hours. I work from home, on t’intraweb, so why not? I’m going to see how well it can work, if there’s anything which makes it difficult. (For example, we’ve already been woken up twice…
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Baby!
Congratulations to my brother and his wife! She is 12 weeks pregnant and doing well. (Due date: 23rd February 2007) I’m going to be an uncle, which now I think about it, and as suggested by the gf, makes me feel quite old. I’ll see them both at my sister’s wedding which is in a…