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Charlie is finally back in the garden, after having been away for many weeks during the cold and the snow. He's getting ready to jump onto the roof.
He brought two friends with him, but unfortunately I couldn't get a shot of all three together.
A good friend of mine is was in the automobile business so, when nine years ago, I needed an inexpensive car, I consulted him. (I might add I would have preferred a different make, but I wanted to give him my business.) He heard my requirements and readily suggested I purchase an Opel Agila, possibly [...]
The Mens ladies built a food repository for our little winged friends yesterday. (The juice in this carton wasn't terribly good anyway.)
We usually have lots of birds (and squirrels) in our garden, but so far we haven't spotted any hungry flying visitors.
In August 1989, 20 years ago, Mr. Augie Hansen wrote a column in UNIX/World's New to UNIX column entitled Lost and Found.
On the four-page spread he discusses the grep and find tools and shows the reader how to create a recursive grep, a bit like ack! in spirit, but much simpler.
I used to adore those [...]
I grinned when the stationmaster at Strasbourg central said "c'est le bordel ici!" [*], and he was probably right: most trains were delayed, and I was pestering him as to the arrival of the TGV to Karlsruhe. Thankfully that too was delayed so I was still able to catch it. When I asked on which [...]
My Inbox is almost empty, and I've ticked off all tasks on my todo-list that I wanted done by year's end. The many remaining tasks will have to wait until next year.
Apart from some humming here and there, my office is quiet (it always is, at home), and I've nothing much left in [...]