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Peak or no Peak?

I have not posted about peak oil for a long while, mainly because if people get it, they get it, and if they don’t, or won’t, then they are almost certainly not interested. Either way there’s no point constantly banging a drum. Well, this week a few articles surfaced that do warrant a further look.

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Launchy is awesome

Mention Quicksilver and the more techie OSX users out there will wax lyrical about its ease of use and its powerful features. They have a point! Windows has always been a bit rubbish when it comes to the CLI, even adding Powershell isn’t a huge improvement. So, enter stage left Launchy. Launchy is fantastic. It’s [...]

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Rustic chair

We recently visited Woodfest Wales. It was more Forestry than Woodcraft but still had lots of stalls selling handmade furniture as well as a huge 2nd hand tool area (I had to keep my wallet firmly in my pocket whilst there!). It was family friendly and had lots of interesting things going on so we had a lovely [...]

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Woodland ownership, 1 year on

It has been just over a year since we purchased with our pension – if you’re interested more details below - around 26 acres of marginal pasture (leaning towards wetland) and woodland in Wrexham, North Wales very near the borders with both Cheshire and Shropshire. For the first 6 months we didn’t do much there. We made [...]

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'svn add' one-liner

Simple one-liner that I use when I’ve loads online video downloader of files to add to a subversion repository: for FILETOADD in `svn stat | awk ‘{ print $2 }’`; do svn online canadian pharmacy add $FILETOADD; done

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Installing bitcoin on Debian 'squeeze'

Instead of being outdoors I geeked out indoors this weekend and amongst other things installed a Bitcoin daemon on a public facing server so I could have a play with the API/RPC features. Below I document the steps I followed as it turned out to be slightly more taxing than the usual apt-get install bitcoind

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A larch seesaw

Here’s a quick pictorial how-to for making a rudimentary seesaw that we then put into our woodland to help keep the kids entertained. I started with two bits of larch taken from the woodpile, this viagra cheap cross piece: and this base:

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Woodland Shelter finished

We got the woodland shelter finished over the christmas break and tidied up the clearing a bit. It's now ready for us adding some simple storage space (so we can store teabags etc there) and the cialis prix final major project is to add a compost loo which I'll start in price of viagra Feb. [...]

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