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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Veritas technical support @veritastechllc far outdid Microsoft technical support @MicrosoftHelps in both efficiency and politeness in dealing with similar problems I had today. Make of that what you will.

Old servers out, data migrated to new servers, tidier server room! Next stage is upgrading to Server 2016 next week…

Servers

The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 - The Later Romantics

📆 | 🏷 Poetry 🏷 OnThisDay

Interesting article by Gladstone Small about Lawrence Rowe in the August 2017 edition of The Cricketer magazine @TheCricketerMag

Gladstone Small

Enjoying my final Fix in Greece

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Spent the day on Skopelos today, including visits to several sites relating to the film Mamma Mia! Only bad thing about it is that I’ll have to sit down and watch the film when I get home to appreciate what I’ve seen.

House of Alexandros Papadiamantis

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📆 | 🏷 Photography 🏷 Books

Reflecting on Skiathos town

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“It was nice music, but the kind that seems to melt into the air the moment it emerges from its source.” - Haruki Murakami

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“Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.” - John Waters - #qotd

📆 | 🏷 OnThisDay

BBQ Toolbox - It’s a barbecue … in a toolbox - from @whatsamadder on Twitter, always a Wednesday pleasure!

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Even on holiday, not thinking about work, the death of Flash makes me happy: Adobe is ending development and support for Flash in 2020

📆 | 🏷 Links 🏷 CompTechSci

Skiathos town

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…with a view!

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Tapas time…

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