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Photographic Challenges: Mallard Ducks

By James on 15/01/2011

I’ve had difficulty getting the green head to look nice because the feathers are so very fine. This is one of my best: Click on it to get through to a better quality version.

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100WS: 2. but that’s too short

By James on 11/12/2010

Word count: 105. Already? The wee man wailed inside his head, ” I’ve got another idea to cram in first”. Were this important, desperation would have sent up cries from his numskulls of “Adrenaline!”, “Up with the heart rate!”, and all attention would be focused; the paragraphs decimated and reworked; and the wee man satisfied. [...]

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100WS: 1. what to write?

By James on 10/12/2010

[Control+A][Backspace]. Another stab at a 100 word story scratched out. It wasn’t an ambitious target, he knew that! But why no progress – he did have ideas! The one about Zaphod Beeblebrox’s brother, an intergalatic policy advisor who was struggling without the charisma that propelled Zaphod into the limelight. It lacked a plot. Is he [...]

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Hymns in public worship – what’s suitable?

By James on 22/11/2010

For those who believe that hymn singing should be part of public worship in the New Testament church: What determines whether a hymn is suitable for the public worship of God? I have never heard any line drawn in the sand over this issue that didn’t come down to personal preference.

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How to archive or zip a folder with a command line so you can transfer it

By James on 04/11/2010

I had to figure this out myself and thought I’d share what I’m doing. Make an archive: tar -cf TargetFile.tar Foldername/ The c flag tells it to create an archive. The f flag tells it that you’re making an archive from files. Compress it: gzip TargetFile.tar And the resulting file is: TargetFile.tar.gz If you want [...]

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