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Oct
02
2012

Cunning Plans

by Skippy

There is a cunning plan, and that cunning plan is to escape… escape the west, heading east we plan to first go… um… west to Llangollen, because b0atg1rl has never done the Llangollen Arm of the Shropshire Union canal (bit of a mouthful) on her own boat; and well I have never done it at all. [...]

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Sep
25
2012

Dealing with Spam

by Skippy

Since spending a fair amount of time in Swindon, and having the following on my Parents front door I Still win the following: The Swindon Star The Swindon Star is a weekly free newspaper, well-established in the community and packed with local news and advertising. Published every Thursday this is Swindon’s best free newspaper. So [...]

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Aug
27
2012

Automatic Panoramic Head – Part 2: Move the Camera

by Skippy

Following on from Part One, I have come across a number of ways of changing the focus ring via a servo, and if I was to use a Telephoto (Zoom) Lense on an SLR (Single Lens Reflex) Camera The Focal Length as well: Shoulder Rig Geared Follow Focus labeled lensgear-set for Geared Follow Focus With [...]

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Aug
13
2012

Out smarted by SPAM

by Skippy

As some of you may know GLaDOS came back, when Steph was stolen I drew parallels between the IQ of the muppit, and a bacon sandwich. However the high IQ shown by the person who stole GLaDOS knew no bounds. The bacon sandwich has been replaced with a spam roll. Why you may ask: Somewhere [...]

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Apr
18
2012

Why I fear Pro-Life

by Skippy

TRIGGER WARNING: This article or section, or pages it links to, contain information about abortion, sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors, also some of the language is a lot stronger than normally presented, It also contains images that Abort67 claim are of Aborted Foetus, Ergo NSFW. This Post has taken me a while to write, and [...]

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Mar
21
2012

Tax Reduction – Uniform Tax Rebate

by Skippy

I have been paying my tax like a good person for a large number of years; OK sometimes I have claimed job seekers allowance;  but other than the JSA and the Rebates; I have mostly paid the correct amount of TAX, and got mostly a good service from the public sector; however I found out that I [...]

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Feb
23
2012

Task 72 – Learn to Program

by Skippy

On my Day Zero List is the desire to learn to program; one of the things that people have been playing with in their down time here at Pennant Traning Systems is Project Euler: What is Project Euler? Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical [...]

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Dec
28
2011

I have my hand back

by Skippy

This morning I got my hand back It was nice to have the cast off as it meant I could wash my hand for the first time in five weeks. I have got a thumb support now However I hurt my hand by knocking my hand while packing so am wearing my splint.

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