Lalalala doo
June 27th, 2014
I’m so overcome with excitement I can’t even hold the camera straight!
While visiting my parents last weekend to help clean out my room.
June 27th, 2014
I tried unsuccessfully to walk all the way from Henley to Oxford last October. So now with peak daylight I had another go the weekend before last – and I made it this time!
The section after the point were I gave up last time was a bit naff. There’s probably a better route keeping to the east, in the unlikely event anyone reading this is considering following the above.
It was sadly overcast the for the whole day which meant I didn’t take many good photos. Here’s a very overgrown path through a field:
June 20th, 2014
Oh dear. I unwittingly updated to Firefox/Iceweasel 29 in Debian testing. What a mistake! My Firefox setup has remained basically the same since the 3.5 days with a nice unobtrusive layout where I have the menu, navigation buttons, and the address bar in one strip and the tabs below. Despite hours of hair pulling there’s no way to get anything remotely satisfactory with the new UI, even with the “Classic Theme Restorer” addon.
Panic not! It’s possible to just stick with the stable 24.4 version from Debian wheezy! For future reference, this needs to go into /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb [arch=amd64] http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
Then do this:
sudo apt-get install -t wheezy iceweasel sudo apt-mark hold iceweasel
UPDATE: I later upgraded to 31 ESR and worked around most of the problems.
June 14th, 2014
One neat benefit of having a car and it being nearly midsummer is that if you finish work sufficiently early there’s enough daylight for hours of evening adventuring!
Some photos from where I went last Tuesday, near Watlington about half an hour up the M40 from my office.
June 14th, 2014
I spent last week in the south of France with some friends ostensibly to go climbing but also spent a lot of time hanging around by the infinity pool in our villa.
That’s the view from my window. Not bad eh? We were staying in a little town near Toulon called Bandol. Here’s the local beach:
Here’s an island I tried unsuccessfully to run to several times. Google maps suggests there’s a causeway at low tide. There isn’t: you have to pay 11 EUR for the boat.
On the way back to the airport we stopped off in Cassis which is another pleasant seaside town:
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