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Diego and his imaginary friend… from Instagram:

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Waiting to go to the vets from Instagram:

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Seth wondering about Diego’s Shoe fetish… from Instagram:

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Halloween down the aptly named Fright in thick fog to get a late train at East Farleigh station – doesn’t get spookier!! from Instagram:

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Intruders lining up a takeover. Left the window open for bam, went in a couple of hours later to see if he was in, heard a cry and this is what I saw. Bam will have to come by the front door now as the window is shut!! from Instagram:

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Bam playing hide and seek with me today from Instagram:

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Oxford DNB article: Caslon, Elizabeth

Oxford DNB article: Caslon, Elizabeth

Source: Oxford DNB article: Caslon, Elizabeth

Caslon [née Cartlich], Elizabeth (1730–1795), typefounder, was born in Foster Lane, London, on 31 May 1730, the daughter of William Cartlich, refiner, of Foster Lane, and his wife, Elizabeth. She was baptized on 4 June at St John Zachary, London. On 25 June 1751 she married William Caslon (1720–1778) [see under Caslon, William (1692–1766)],…

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Big Search on Ben Nevis and welcome to Rescue 951 - Easter winter warnings on the Mountains

Big Search on Ben Nevis and welcome to Rescue 951 – Easter winter warnings on the Mountains

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sage and timely advice – I think the simplest precautions are the best: equip, prepare, navigate – it’s all old hat but never more needed.

Originally posted on heavywhalley:

Ben Nevis has an ongoing massive Search for a missing 23-year-old hill walker from London, my thoughts are with the family who must be going through hell just now. Yesterdays search saw the last flight of RAF Rescue…

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Notes About Notes: Information Triage

Notes About Notes: Information Triage

Worth revisiting: I like the idea of Information Triage, and following the simple guiding principles of GTD (see GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done http://joki.in/1o5; Getting Things Done with Semantic Notes — Abolish Me http://joki.in/1o6) – don’t try to remember things, write them down, try to clear your mind of longer term goals by recording them, and keeping two…

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Bellingshausen's first accounts of his Antarctic voyage of 1819–1821

Bellingshausen’s first accounts of his Antarctic voyage of 1819–1821

In 1949 a reassessment of the Imperial Russian Navy’s Antarctic expedition of 1819–1821 was promulgated in the Soviet Union. The contention was that Russian seamen had made the first discovery of the mainland of Antarctica, two or three days before the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula was sighted by a British expedition, under William Smith and Edward Bransfield, sent to take formal…

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Cold war whaling: Bellingshausen and the Slava flotilla

Cold war whaling: Bellingshausen and the Slava flotilla

An occasional series about papers read recently: Russian attitudes to the West have a long history & need a deeper undertanding.

On 7 December 1945 a captured German whaling factory was allocated to the Soviet Union under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement between that country, the United States and the United Kingdom. In the first section, this article presents the first detailed account of how 

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The best free VPN services of 2015 in the UK - PC Advisor

The best free VPN services of 2015 in the UK – PC Advisor

The best free VPN services of 2015 in the UK – PC Advisor.

Disguising your online identity and providing additional security is becoming increasingly popular. We put a selection of free VPN services through their paces to find the best.

A VPN is a Virtual Private Network. At one time VPNs were just for business users but, with the proliferation of VPN service providers, there are now benefits…

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Free tool automates phishing attacks for Wi-Fi passwords - PC Advisor

Free tool automates phishing attacks for Wi-Fi passwords – PC Advisor

Free tool automates phishing attacks for Wi-Fi passwords – PC Advisor.

Gaining access to a WPA-protected Wi-Fi network can be extremely valuable for attackers because it puts them behind the firewall, in what is generally a high-trust zone. This allows them to mount man-in-the-middle attacks against the network’s users to steal sensitive data and authentication cookies from unencrypted traffic. –…

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Ten biggest bank card hacks…

Ten biggest bank card hacks…

Timely advice from Wired

Get clued up on the ten biggest bank card hacks (Wired UK).

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iCloud syncing of Mail rules - tip

iCloud syncing of Mail rules – tip

If you are having a problem restoring or resetting apple mail in os x yosemite I found the tip at the bottom of this paged helped – every time I tried to recreate the mail folder in ~/Library it would come up with the wrong volume for the synced rules, which would cause mail to crash, and the solution was to remove the file as stated here:

Michael Tsai mjtsai Follow @mhenders Did you check…

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Apple hardware test (AHT) not loading? Tip

Apple hardware test (AHT) not loading? Tip

Why is Apple hardware test (AHT) not loading when pressing key D on system start?

Pressing ⌥+D right after pressing the power button and before the gray screen appears works on my late-2011 15" MBP. This forces an internet-based hardware test, which will work even if you’ve lost the the local hardware test software. (It will probably work over WiFi, but you have more chance of success with…

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