Budley Salterton

End of the cross-posting ?

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:19:09 GMT

Well, it seems the live-journal cross-poster doesn’t work so well with nextgen gallery.

I had to go over to livejournal and hand edit the last post make it sane, which isn’t going to help in the long-term. This might be the last cross-posted entry for the time being whilst I search for a solution.

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Y’all can see I ain’t none too happy

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:28:58 GMT

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Just a bit miffed

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:14:19 GMT

I bought a new Mac Pro and with it a LaCie eSATA card so I could connect a SATA Dock to allow hot-swapping of backup drives,
But, guess what, the drivers aren’t compatible with Snow Leopard despite the pretty product page stating “v10.4.5 or later”.

So, I query LaCie support who manage the the entirely lame

We are aware of compatibility issues with the LaCie eSATA PCI Express Card and Snow Leopard. At this time the latest update available is from 07 Jul 2008 and no current ETA as to when an update will be made available.

And then rather disingenuously suggest rebooting might be required.

All they need now is to suggest turning it off and on again and this bingo card is full.

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Winter migration

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:15:20 GMT

and that’s the blog migrated to a new host and different picture gallery plugin.
I’ve corrected image links on this year’s posts over on livejournal, but the older ones will have to stay broken for the time being.

And now an edit to see if the cross-posting works again.

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Too big ?

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:34:38 GMT

Might need bigger desk

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I never knew that

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:38:30 GMT

PC World reveal the hidden feature of the iMac. 7 hours battery life ! Must try pulling the mains lead out and seeing what condition the batteries are on mine.

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Taking in the view

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:54:12 GMT

On the way to the pub

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Patsy’s out and about

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:23:54 GMT

What can one say ?

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A night in too near seer

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:43:02 GMT

I’m sure I don’t remember arriving here

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And then there were the cats

Mon, 18 May 2009 21:31:20 GMT

0-60 still beats Clarkson

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Ukes to Cellos

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:21:28 GMT

Following on from the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain doing Kate Bush we have Metallica on cellos

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more money than sense

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:59:33 GMT

Yup, $500 ethernet cable.

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Something for the weekend ?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:57:20 GMT

As seen in Soho

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Retro books

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:25:20 GMT

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Eat a whole one ?

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:52:58 GMT

How hungry are you ?

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Santago Cats

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:31:34 GMT

Spent a day this week with friends photographing leopards in a private reserve in North Herts. Organised through Photographers on Safari four of us had the place to ourselves to photograph to our heart’s content. Our guide, John Wright, gave us hints and tips all day, luring the cats into photographically convenient paths to let us capture what we could. With occasional breaks where we reviewed the previous shots and took further advice it was a wonderful day and a rare chance to get really close rather than have to deal with the enhanced safety measures at a public park.

Despite coming away with many hundreds of shots very few are really worth keeping except as an object lesson to myself in how I get things wrong. That said, some of them are really nice, a few can be found by clicking on the pic of Sadé the snow leopard below.

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A killer arrives

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:55:26 GMT

A new arrival in the land of the thugs. Following the demise of Conan 3 weeks ago friends remaining cat, Ghengis, has been alone and howling. Well, the howling has stopped; to be replaced by the angry hissing of the newest occupant, Freddie Kruger.

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The Keyboard iPhone

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:53:18 GMT

Sneak preview shots of that oh so desirable object, the keyboard-ed iphone.

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Putting out the empties

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:01:43 GMT

but what do I do for tomorrow’s bottles ?

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Zune users are thieves, UMG says so.

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:03:48 GMT

Gotta love a product where before it's launched one of the companies that benefit from the sales of it calls all would-be owners thieves.

It's hard to imagine that there's a more doomed product. Anybody who buys one can officially be called a

Fine set of wheels

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:33:03 GMT

After much deliberation and coercion from certain other parties I changed my mind as to what to do with the vehicles on the drive. SWMBO had decreed that at least one vehicle had to go so that she could drive hers round and out rather than having to reverse. So it is with much joy that I received a shiney new MOT for one of the idle beasts and as a consequence

T H E P I M P M O B I L E L I V E S ! ! !

So, I shall be able to attend Summer Camp in big greenie and to travel down in style rather than the aural assault of the 318i revving its nuts off.

I shall probably regret this decision the moment I have to have something serviced or replaced but for now. Woohoo !

My Dog's Got No Nose

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:18:53 GMT

So, the world's best joke has been found. And the original author was Spike !

[FX: gunshot ]

Though I also have to rate the other two classic Milligans. The best has to be the sequence from The Myusterious Punch-Up-The-Conker regarding the time, though the following from The Last Good Show Of All rates a close second.

Bluebottle: Pssst!
Eccles: What?
Bluebottle: Pssst!
Eccles: I haven't touched a drop!
Bluebottle: Eccles?
Eccles: Yeah?
Bluebottle: It's me, Blumebottuns.
Eccles: Oh! My friend!
Bluebottle: Yes, I'm your friend! You remember me?
Eccles: I remember you!
Bluebottle: Yes, why do you not open the door?
Eccles: Okay, I'll- How do you open a door?
Bluebottle: You turn the knob on your side.
Eccles: I haven't got a knob on my side!
Bluebottle: On the door!
Eccles: Oh! I'll soon get the hang of that.

Is this marketing ?

Wed, 17 May 2006 10:12:28 GMT

Just what are you telling your customers with a promotional gift like this ?

I think they call it progress

Sun, 07 May 2006 20:11:55 GMT

In the course of discussing how some friends met the following occured to me.

In 200 years we have gone from

I graciously request the honour to be presented to your daughter .....

txt yr vitls & yr fav pos

Issa funny old world.

the date meme

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:33:56 GMT

From here via codepope we have.

Facts

1790 - United States Patent system established

1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and last voyage.

1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.

Births

1870 (O.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)

1929 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor

A Death

1954 - Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)