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Signs of Spring at Low Sizergh Barn
Still no luck convincing the family that a wet trump around some two-thousand-year-old stone circles is what Easter should be all about. Instead of this we made a trip to Low Sizergh Barn. As this is an organic farm, there was a great biodiversity to be had in the field …
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In Arnside
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Pen Plotter Replacement Pen DIY III
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Pen Plotter Replacement Pen DIY II
As promised, here’s an update about making our old pen plotter sustainable in terms of pen supplies by using archival ink provided by the Lamy M22 refill:
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Adventures with the My Book World Edition (Whitelight) NAS harddrive
Recently, I’ve been obsessing about the network here at home, now we have our own connection to the Internet and router (in the last flat, we shared this via an Ethernet cable that came from our neighbour’s flat).
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Equinoctial Exploration in Tiergarten with Martin
Having met at the Humboldt University Library Mensa (about the best place to eat in that part of town I think), Martin & I set out down the banks of the Spree for a jolly equinoctial exploration of likely sites in Tiergarten. We’re both kind of looking for a place …
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Pen Plotter Replacement Pen DIY
After totalling three pens of the precious supply I got with our HP DraftPro EXL (7576A) pen plotter (see earlier post), I realised that this was unsustainable and promised myself to find a solution for the future.
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Layout with Scribus - no more InDesign
In my constant and daily attempt not to have to boot into Windoze to perform the tasks I need to complete I found myself having to update (remake) my portfolio for an application today. I made the application itself in lovely old LaTeX which gives me such a buzz to …
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Why I don’t use GPS logging on my smartphone
This post is an adaptation of an email I was sending to someone who wrote to me to ask about doing what I do. I directed him to this previous post (What GPS to use) and started off clarifying a couple of things:
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HP DraftPro EXL (7576A) Pen Plotter working
It’s been a long time waiting for me down the studio, but the other day, I managed to crack getting the plotter we bought on eBay for 40 Euros working.
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