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Bells at St Bartholomews, Lostwithiel

Tom — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:30:17 +0000

Listen!

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Twins

Tom — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:34:45 +0000

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Palazzo doors, Palermo

Tom — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:41:09 +0000

Palazzo doors, Palermo, originally uploaded by *Tom*.

In a recent trip to Sicily, Tehm and I visited Palermo. Whilst wandering around the old churches, in Piazza Pretoria I spotted these doors on an old palazzo. They really captured my imagination, and in a way sum up Palermo for me. Peeling, faded, remnants of a past grandeur, but still beautiful.

I wonder what’s behind them? I don’t suppose I’ll ever find out.

The Italian Fountains, Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens are spectacular in the morning sun.

Tom — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:20:47 +0000

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Here I am, airing the house on a Sunday morning, when lovely neighbour does this

Tom — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:51:56 +0000

I suppose he has to burn what he has, but that’s a lot of smoke!

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Adjust your sets, the look of my blog ha…

Tom — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:19:21 +0000

Adjust your sets, the look of my blog has changed!

I’m using the wonderfully clean and simple P2 theme by Joseph Scott, Matt Thomas, Noel Jackson, and Automattic. I’ll probably get around to customise it a bit, so ‘scuse the scaffolding for a while

Testing posterous

Tom — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:23:49 +0000

I've just signed up to Posterous to give it a whirl, and I'm hoping that this text will also end up on my blog. Fingers crossed.

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A short tour of the British Museum made shorter

Tom — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:20:54 +0000

A short tour of the British Museum made shorter from Tom Goskar on Vimeo.

I took a little wander around the British Museum’s Great Court and some upper galleries, and filmed as I went on my cameraphone. The original video was 11 minutes long, sped up here by 800%, so I suppose it’s a 24mph walk about the BM…

The music is appropriately by A Single Voice, the musical guise of archaeologist and author David J Knight.

eeePC 901 and eeebuntu

Tom — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:53:06 +0000

A quick update: while I initially liked the default Linux installation on my eeePC (Xandros) I rather quickly began to dislike it when trying to install OpenOffice. It also felt… clunky. So, I did a bit of reading about some of the eeePC blogs out there and came across eeebuntu.

To cut a long story short, I installed eeebuntu (after much cursing and Googling) onto a 1GB USB stick to give it a test run. To my amazement, on first boot, eeebuntu looked amazing. I played with it for a few hours and decided to take the plunge and overwrite Xandros. And I haven’t looked back.

If you have any variety of eeePC, it’s certainly worth a look.

More soon.

Nokia E71 Battery Life

Tom — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:57:38 +0000

I’ve just noticed that the battery level on my E71 is down to just one bar. This doesn’t worry me, as I’ll be charging it in about an hour’s time. I wouldn’t normally blog about something as mundane as my battery being low, if it weren’t for the fact that the last time I charged it was Sunday evening.

Since today is Thursday, it means that my E71 has lasted a full four days. I am impressed. Thinking back to what I have done with my phone since Sunday evening, it’s been used rather a lot. I’ve listened to internet radio for about 15 minutes each morning, surfed the web, made phone calls, used a bit of Skype, taken a short video, taken some photos, sent some text messages, checked my email, used the alarm each day, and used Twitter via Twibble.

The E71 is quite a workhorse. It’s stuffed full of features, and, unlike the N95, I don’t have to worry about using them all.