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03:19 pm
[Link] | Houston, we are go for swanee whistle
Return to Sorrento, third class
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02:25 pm
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Beautiful Days Festival
We weren't going to go this year because the last 2 years it's rained, however I think ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) r_is_for_rachel and I will be going now! The weather seems so much better than last year and Rachel will kick me if we don't go and the weather ends up good!
It's the weekend 21/22/23rd August in Ottery St Mary.
bands include:
The Pogues and Shane McGowan
The Wonderstuff
Hawkwind
The Blockheads
The Saw Doctors
Dreadzone
Tickets £100
anyone else going/fancy going?
Current Location: In a field
Current Music: Hippies
Tags: beautiful days, festival
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02:46 pm
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Not the finest dictionary in the world, but the most enthusiastic
Webster's dictionary uses only the finest and most erudite modern sources to track the use of words.
Such as Swordsman.
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10:30 pm
[Link] | Shark
Jumped
Tags: keep calm and carry on
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05:55 pm
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CreativeCommons licences in RDF - Permission vs. Prohibition?
( SemWeb RDFS geekery )
Tags: creative commons, geek, rdf, semantic web
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10:50 pm
[Link] | Up North again, mowing lawns.
A year ago I was sat on exactly the same bit of grass, eating just the same barbecued stuff. Dad was being a pain, but capable of conversation.
A year on, where am I?
Now life is "simple". Things are in boxes. One is Dad, in a box labelled Cherry Tree (Do Philipinas crucify Santa every year?). Another is the need to find £2,500 every month. That's a burnrate (less pensions) of £1,100 a month. With paperwork, it's £600 a month. With the house rented, Uriah Heep is in profit and happy.
I have three new sheds of my own, yet I feel miserable. Why does acquiring such sheddage also come with the need to empty them into the socially acceptable (and rentable) norm, thus making the whole process a ghastly exercise in de-mathoming?
Oi, Kate. Don't you need a 1932 MG project? Help me out here, I need good homes for things and you're the last best hope (also available for 1960s two-into-one Herald Convertible / Vitesse 1600 bumper fun packs).
Tags: dad, ormskirk
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11:04 pm
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Dad goes residential (and Welsh)
Brief one, too tired for much else...
He's stopped wanting to live in his old place: too isolated, too lonely, too long a gap left on his own between meals and visits.
So he's now residing in our local care home. Went up there this weekend, scooped him up, parked him in there today.
Wheeling him out through his garden for the very last time was quite a long trip. 8-(
Tags: dad
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11:34 pm
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Asda, I ain't gonna be your bitch
Bill Bailey: genius.
Almost as funny as hennaed squirrels, but politically sound on Asda-Walmart.
Tags: bill bailey
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11:27 pm
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Cat homing
Anyone need a cat?
Splodgey. Feral farm cat. Oldish. Likely to stay here, as there's nothing else we can practically do.
Casey. Semi-feral outdoor greenhouse cat. 4 years? Jet black all over; half panther, half razor. Very attractive cat, sweet nature in cold weather or around tin openers. Friendly for around a minute, then draws blood. May be useful for ninja training. Would suit goth, emo or cursingchemist
Tags: cat, dad, ormskirk
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10:29 pm
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PDF rant
Courtesy of deathboy
http://deathboy.livejournal.com/1266596.html?view=18785700
Tags: deathboy, pdf, rant
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03:28 pm
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Jeremy Clarkson's Turbo Metro Challenge
Volvo the Game
Current Location: Gothenburg Eco Drive Arena
Tags: volvo
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05:41 pm
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Jacqui Smith
That is all.
Current Mood: Frabjous
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05:20 pm
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Rigger skittles!
http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/sandyheath/dso/dso3.php
Tags: pylon of the month, you're not getting me up in one of those
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09:01 am
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Our Parliamentarians are revolting
Well, our local ones at any rate.
"Gunpowder, Fire and Sword" re-enactment at Caldicot Castle, 24th & 25th of May (Sunday & Monday next weekend, the Bank Holiday - yes same Sunday as...)
Musketeers dressed all in black should enquire about our "free 19" monitors" offer.
Tags: caldicot, re-enactment
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08:42 am
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All you fascists are bound to lose
Charlie Brooker (of all people!) nails the BNP
Tags: bnp, charlier brooker, grauniad, grauniad not quite broken yet
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11:07 am
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Eurotrash
What's with all the Goths?!
At least the Hobbit won. Daily Mail weren't pleased though.
Armenia - More Goths. Some of those Goths probably could turn themselves into bats.
Ukraine - No! I'm Spartacus! This is what Eurovision is all about. Should have won.
French - Edith Piaf tribute act? Yes, very French, just not very good. Was she ever in The Human League?
Turquoise gimp - very, very, wrongest thing in the whole night.
Germany - Special prizes for most wasteful use of a supporting set, and the highly coveted "Worst Trouser" (narrowly beating the gimp and the Greek).
Turkey - That's why Gerri Halliwell was so popular in Turkey, isn't it.
Israel - Cher and Cilla go for the serious vote. Is it true that "Salaam Shalom" turns quite rude in Farsi?
UK - We take it all too seriously, don't we? Perfect production and delivery of the most inappropriate po-faced bit of Andrew Lloyd Twaddle.
Russia - Nul points.
Tags: eurovision
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06:07 pm
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Bargain shopping!
Farm machinery sale in Usk this morning, so despite the weather I set off to meet jarkman there.
It was one of those sales where everything is laid out in rows in a field. Good for tractors, not so good for small indoorinesses. Didn't see much: bought a toolbox of junk, a useless barrel of tractor oil (free to a good home!) which arrived on a much more useful 4-castored dolly, big two-handled logging saw, a petrol-driven waterpump (in case the Severn gets frisky) and best of all, a steel roller shutter door for the garage. Spent a grand total of £17, with nothing over a fiver, including the roller shutter! (a few hundred quid new, and I need one). At the end, some hammer afficionado in a V70 kept going on about hammers, so I gave him the ones from the toolbox.
Drive home was irksome, as I'd already seen the road works delays heading South to the Celtic Manor roundabout, but didn't expect to be stuck in them for a whole hour!
Careful measuring shows that the roller door is about the right size. Within an inch or two of the widest I could fit anyway, and long enough to easily cut down for height. Well pleased with that.
Tags: auction, shed
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08:21 pm
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Data warehouses
Assuming that sometime in the last century I've already read the old Kimball "Data Warehouse Toolkit" book, what's the next step? How do I decide on snowflakes vs. star schemas? The virtues of meaningfully structured primary keys on the date dimension, vs. opaque identifiers and GUIDs? Did Kimball & Inmon ever settle it about whether you could make a data whale-house by gluing together lots of data mart minnows?
Anything I should be reading? I know I'm out of touch, and this stuff must have moved forwards in over a decade!
Now I just need to be able to read the name "Kimball" without that whole, "coruscating hypercubes of incredible size" thing happening in my head.
Tags: data warehouse, geek, work
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09:25 pm
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Rosie the Riveter
In case any of you are into the whole "Rosie the Riveter" vibe (looking in at least two directions), there's a great Library of Congress photoset up on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/rosietheriveter/
Tags: flickr, photos, rosie the riveter
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01:45 am
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Elderly residential care homes
Any advice on choosing one?
Any recommendations in the Newport / Cardiff area?
If I do move him somewhere permanently, it's likely to be down here, rather than up North. Anyone know how that affects trying to pry funding out of local councils?
It's a shame we've got to this point, but I don't think he can live on his own any more, even with eight people(!) a day calling in on him. Apart from anything else, that's getting to the point of costing more than I get paid in a month.
So far this year he's been banged up for two months solid (after a "two week" assesment that achieved nothing) and was so utterly destroyed by that he's now incapable of doing anything. Spending the last two weeks in hospital (albeit actually ill for the first few days) didn't help either. Now he can't walk and is frequently so confused that he can't manage the combination of one chair, a phone and a TV, let alone gravity too.
Apparently Friday might be bringing him a bariatric counsellor(?!) No idea why, but if they bring some bedrails they'll be welcome.
Tags: dad
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