South Coast and City Rambles

Posted in Railways on 22nd November 2003

Very early start. Out of Weston on the 0640. Pretty sleepy - even managed to doze part of the way to Paddington. The westbound Circle Line was in a mess due to signal failures at Tower Hill, so crept around to Victoria via Earls Court. Onto a slam-door unit (I...

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Services Terminate at Westbury

Posted in Railways on 16th November 2003

Watched the rugby, as was my duty as an Englishman, but then decided that I was far too frustrated and agitated to stay indoors. Toyed with various schemes before settling on a trip to Winchester. It was always going to be tight, setting out at 11:30 on a Sunday...

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Radeon Sickness

Posted in Computers on 15th November 2003

Finally gave in and purchased a Radeon 9200, in order to move the old nVidia card over to machine #2, which slowly takes shape. I've spent the last two frustrating afternoons trying to make it work properly. Well, it actually 'works' fine, but when attached to the LCD panel, there...

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