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Apple iOS update woes
I don't post often in LJ, but today's situation deserves recording for posterity. Yesterday I tried to buy a couple of apps and got told I needed to update my iOS. So I booted into Windows 10 to use iTunes, one of the only two programs I run on that benighted OS (the other is a scanner driver). I backed up my iPad, then my iPhone, then did the ( Read more... ) -
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Someone else is translating Bormor's stories...
The Witch
Little Boy
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This is the annual post announcing the new year dessert evening. As always, December 31st, starting at 8pm; if you can see this, you're welcome round ours to spend the last few hours of the old year catching up, playing games and eating sweet things ( Read more... ) -
My job, in the ten hundred most used words
Thanks to xkcd's post about the Saturn V rocket, explained using only the thousand words most used in the English language, and Theo Sanderson's Up-Goer Five text editorI work on problems people have with their ears. Some people lose their hearing as they get older, and this is what I study. People can lose their hearing for lots of reasons, like ( Read more... ) -
Update
Well, I fell a bit behind with updating this! Never mind. What's happened since I last posted? Oh, the BBQ was the last post - well, that was great despite the weather. We got two cheap gazebos and laughed at the clouds. Thanks to everyone who came down, we had an awesome time and we hope you did too ( Read more... ) -
GM wheat and Expo
For the people who may have been puzzled about why the police couldn't protect the Rothamstead crops from the threatened 'decontamination' by Take the Flour Back today, they actually did. Result: protests were peacefully aired and no crucial scientific experiments were damaged, which as far as I can see is ideal ( Read more... )