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Black Pearl Slime... or is it?
This morning, I thought I’d found a small, but perfectly formed, lump of black pearl slime mould just outside our back door. Each “sporangium” was about 2mm across and looked perfectly black. The whole mass was about 6 cm across. Subsequently, I found two other lumps in a direct line to the pond…
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Doves Type
We went to the fascinating “Secrets of the Thames” exhibition at the London Museum Docklands yesterday. My favourite exhibit was some examples of Doves Type recovered from the river and subsequently used to recreate the font. The photo is poor, but the story is much better…
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Escaping the Megacorps...
Today, I made a big step in the process of disengaging from American megacorps by switching from a Chromebook Plus and an Acer Windows 10 laptop to a new Ubuntu laptop. I picked a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 15 running Tuxedo OS, which is the German company’s mildly tweaked flavour of Ubuntu. The most noticeable difference to 24.04 LTS is that it uses KDE Plasma…
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Miscellanea 2
Miscellanea for the weekending 26-Nov-2023…
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Psion MC400
While searching for the Christmas decorations in the computer graveyard that is our loft I came across my old Psion MC400. This was the spiritual ancestor of the NetBook; a laptop, based on the SIBO operating system that could run for 60+ hours on a single set of batteries…
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