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Yearly Archives: 2009
A Rare Thing Indeed.
As a person who isn’t much of a celebrater of things, it’s been an awfully long time between organising celebrations for me. These days I am hopeless with remembering other peoples birthdays and have only recently gotten around to getting … Continue reading
Christmyth Bah Humbug!
It’s a weird world we live in… full of weird traditions. I remember Christmas differently as a kid than I do now and I’m not sure if this is because Christmas has changed for my family, or because I’m just … Continue reading
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twitter posts for the week ending 2009-12-21
is tinkering with the idea of selling his pewter work on Etsy -> http://syridian.etsy.com #
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Creating a Pewter Drinking Vessel.
I have just posted an article about creating a pewter drinking vessel to the Casting forum of the Lochac Network. For those of you who follow my Pewter casting, you can check it out by clicking on the picture. Direct … Continue reading
twitter posts for the week ending 2009-12-14
http://bit.ly/4F6Rwq # is mumbling over multiple multi-media micro-blogs. #
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twitter posts for the week ending 2009-11-30
is installing GuildWars again after a break of 3 year not playing it… # is installing GuildWar again… # is preparing a plan to paint a picture of the potentially promissing procrastination promise. # is tinkering with Tweety the Twit-bot. … Continue reading
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Champion’s fighting for Crown?
Whilst reading an explaination posted on one of the few mailing lists I’m still on, a thought occured to me which I must admit I have yet to research. I have oft heard complaint that “The Crown is only open … Continue reading
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Simple relief.
I have been getting more and more frustrated by mailing lists of late, in particular The Shambles. There is a reason it is called The Shambles, as it only takes 4 or 5 posts before the subject of any dicussion … Continue reading
More on the horrors of mailing-list discussions…
Yes… it’s a subject that I just can’t let go, and tonight I have found a perfect example of why I prefer Forums over Mailing-lists for discussions. Below is a picture of my inbox with 4 highlighted topics… the problem … Continue reading
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A bit of a hypocrit really.
It occured to me just recently that I have been a bit of a hypocrit recently. The defining moment was when I was contemplating emailing a friend and asking him if he would be interested in changing his blog to … Continue reading
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The Problems with Mailing Lists.
It’s not difficult to work out that I am not a fan of mailing lists… That is to say I’m not a fan of using them to discuss issues in depth and work out real solutions. Mailing lists are good … Continue reading
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-16
is wasting time before a medieval event this evening. # just did a search on "medieval pewtercraft" in google and was amazed by the results. # is away enjoying a time long ago, where mobiles didn't exist. ;) # enjoyed … Continue reading
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And we’re back with a bit more White Metal Madness…
Finally! it’ been a while since I posted a pewter project post, but I have now got a few projects on the go so there will be a number of them coming in the next month or two. This weeks … Continue reading
Observations of temperature on Soapstone Mould castings.
It’s about time I got back to some real Pewter casting and the reporting of, so here’s my latest. I have recently been working on a token commission and actually paid attention to the detail of the results of the castings this … Continue reading
Concerned about Geothermal Power Generation.
Just watched a program on National Geographic channel about Geothermal Power generation and at no point did they mention the effect that it would have on cooling the earths core. Now, I’m no geologist, and I’m sure that there have … Continue reading
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Projects, problems and procrastination…
Well, it seems that today I sold my first Pewter badge on Ebay. That would be great if it hadn’t taken about 2 years at roughly $15/month to do it. ;) Stupidly this is totally my fault for not actually … Continue reading
The Lochac Network Event Posting Bot.
Well… Work has finally started progressing on one of my pet projects, the Lochac Network Event posting bot, which is planned to be an event stewards one stop shop for advertising events in Lochac. By filling out the one web … Continue reading
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The things you find…
It’s amasing what you find when you have loads of time to troll the internet for jobs and entertainment. The Ledgend of Neil is a silly internet production that is quite entertaining if you don’t mind some crass references and … Continue reading
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And the hunt for a new job finally starts.
Today the hunt for a new job has finally started, there’s been a fair bit of procrastination going on… as well as plain old out right denial of the need to start looking right away. I guess I was needing … Continue reading
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Slight issue with syridian.id.au DNS fixed.
Due to my rushed attempts at getting everything all changed over last week I missed changing a couple of the records in my Domain Zone for syridian.id.au which means that for a few more hours that domain name is offline. … Continue reading
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