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Apologies for an odd and boring post, but this is for future reference way down the line. Specifically, this picture was taken on 18th Nov 2012, two weeks after completing this fence and gate.

(It’s in the orchard out the back…)

“Bigger Pack, Better Value”

Really?

versus:

So, not cheaper at all…

Here’s what a traffic jam sometimes looks like in our part of the world…

Abingdon Air Show – 7th May 2011

XH558 comes to visit…

Welcome to 2010. This year’s upcoming stuff:

• Annular Eclipse over Africa, India and China on 15th Jan
• Total Eclipse over the Pacific on July 11th (and quite a long one too)
• Total Lunar Eclipse on Dec 21st
• The Winter Olympics
• The World Cup

I won’t be going to watch any of these events (though I might just sneek a peak of the lunar eclipse if I’m up early in the morning and it’s clear). And, if I can help it, I may avoid the World Cup on TV almost entirely too…

In brewing news, my Southwold bitter just lasted the holidays, my East India Pale Ale (Amsinck, 1868 – from the Durden Park book) has finished and is in the keg, and I have a big starter of yeast recultured from Chimay Red to play with in the near future.

I just had to rebuild a RAID 1 array on my PC after having a Barracuda go potty on me. Mine is a Promise PDC20376 on an old MSI KT4 Ultra – hope you have a better controller), and some advice:

1. The BIOS utility (2.0.0) didn’t give you a progress bar for the rebuild option as I’d expect and as the manual states.
2. It’s not obvious that the array is rebuilding at all…
3. …unless you download and install the Promise Array Management software where you can see the status and progress when booted with the degraded array
4. When it rebuilds a 750GB array, it takes literally hours (about 12 in total, though I lost count…)…