Monthly Archives: December 2006

Quote of the Day

By Val | Published: December 29, 2006
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin
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Loch Ken

By Val | Published: December 28, 2006
Managed to get some photos of the loch this afternoon, misty, cool, very still. Got some good shots like this one.
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Back To Work….

By Val | Published: December 26, 2006
….groan. Got loads of stuff to get on with. This morning, I’ve been working on the redesign of the Oakleaf Circle site, copying over hundreds of URLs. And checking them, as well. I’ve got a useful little freeware program that checks links, but it can only tell me if a link is dead [...]
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So That Was Yule….

By Val | Published: December 23, 2006
Well, another one over. At last the nights are going to get shorter – at this time of year, we get 15 hours of darkness; those nights when I’m lying awake and hopelessly chasing sleep, it feels like the sun will never rise… Thursday night, we had our usual Yule feast chez Carol’s. We [...]
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Quote of the Day

By Val | Published: December 20, 2006
…..we don’t need to examine the Universe as a supernatural creation. It is enough — more than enough — to examine it naturally. The sense of awe, beauty, wonder, and joy we feel when we view a Hubble image of a distant galaxy is a natural product of our sense of discovery. It is more [...]
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Wet, Wet, Wet…

By Val | Published: December 14, 2006
I’ve finally sorted out the software problem that was stopping me from uploading pictures from my camera – turned out I needed an update for my motherboard, in addition to the card-reader driver. So – here’s a recent picture, taken a couple of days ago. It’s the field below my house, and the loch is [...]
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Dammed M$…..

By Val | Published: December 9, 2006
So I’m going to take the plunge and switch to WinXP, as soon as I have enough cash to replace my current measly 40GB hard drive with something bigger (and when I get the time needed to install everything). If I’m going to carry on with web design and development, I have to [...]
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