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The storm before the calm

Vacation is looming in a few days and I am experiencing all the usual internal turbulence in the lead-up.
It’s ridiculous, but I find the week or so leading to a vacation terrible stressful - to the point of not wanting to go. Once I am fully engaged in the journey, however, it all starts to [...]

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Minor Technicality 33 - them Brits be island folk

Another Minor Technicality and it’s almost Christmas
It’s already December 16th and time to give a little Christmas spirit with a handful of Christmas promos from a few other UK shows. This episode comes to you courtesy of the British transport system, the British aptitude for selfishness, and the British attitude for getting away with [...]

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Speeding up a sluggish Mail.app - significantly.

Troubles with Mail.app today - lists of mailbox contents were simply not displaying and in recent days the app was hanging trying to organise and list messages - sent me on a quest. I found this little gem to fiddle in Terminal for a few mins which ends up not only noticeably speeding up mail [...]

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Minor Technicality Podcast 25 - A nostril-full of grey

Yes, it’s that completely unpredictable moment when another Minor Technicality squeezes its squidgy way out into the warming world.
This show is all about stuff going on:
- Podcasting a mofo: 212Blues, Short&Fuzzy, and more!
- Not so much fun using the London public transport system - In, out, in, out, shake it all about.
- Nasal hair and [...]

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More fun with panoramas

From images taken by jEN:

More panorama and stitched image experiments here.

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