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Gloves for the cold

Last weekend Andrea and I went to Belgium for a short break (otherwise known as an authentic Bridget Jones mini-break). We had a great time, but it was incredibly cold. I made a pair of fingerless gloves (one day I’ll … Continue reading

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Christmas in Granada

I spent Christmas and the New Year in Granada with Andrea’s family again this year. It was a wonderful chance to relax, eat lots, and generally do christmasy type things. Although I did spend a fair portion of the time … Continue reading

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Bruno’s Blanket

Last June Andrea’s sister Mamen gave birth to Bruno. I decided I wanted to knit him something, and summer being a horrible time to knit, I figured a Christmas present would be a good opportunity. I selected a pattern for … Continue reading

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Évariste Galois

The science library at uni has a display out the front where they put topical exhibitions up which change from time to time. This week they put one up celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Évariste Galois (b. 25 Oct, … Continue reading

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Choose your own (adventure)

When I was somewhere around the end of primary school we had a guy come to talk to us at school. He was a native american, who worked as an undercover cop in the states. I don’t remember exactly what … Continue reading

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Simulated knitting

David Chudzicki has created a python package (Knit3d on github) which simulates in 3D the shape that will be produced by a knitted pattern. I haven’t really looked at it yet, but it looks very interesting. Check out his blog … Continue reading

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Now he’s sixty-four

Bruce has written a post about the Beatle’s song When I’m sixty-four, the occasion being his 64th birthday. He left this out of the post, creative is as creative does, and all that.

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Differing goals

Last week our email server finally tanked. This was pretty bad timing as we’ll be moving to a hosted email server before the end of the year. In order to get things up and running as quickly as possible, we … Continue reading

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Looking for …

Since the book I’m reading at the moment is prohibitively large, I’ve not been carrying it around everywhere as I usually do with books. Needing something to read at Andrea’s place, I picked up Looking for Alibrandi. Having not done … Continue reading

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I’m alive

This is just a post to say that I am still alive, I’ve not been posting anything because I’ve been busy with work and my studies, and other work. Sorry about that.

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