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31st December 2000



29th December 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! to 14th December - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

27th December 2000


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23rd December 2000
  • As part of Misc Things
    • Update the Poetry Page to include some poetry of Australian bush poet, Henry Lawson ("Faces in the Street"; "The Poets of the Tomb"; "Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers"). Though this is not the style of Henry Lawson poetry I remember being given in primary or high school; e.g., trying to incite the toiling masses of the urban cities such as Melbourne to Communist Revolution in "Faces in the Street"(?).


  • As part of Misc Things
    • Update the Literature Page to include links and extracts from "Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds", By Charles MacKay (Published in 1841)

      "Such are a few of the peculiarities of the London multitude, when no riot, no execution, no murder, no balloon, disturbs the even current of their thoughts. These are the whimseys of the mass - the harmless follies by which they unconsciously endeavour to lighten the load of care which presses upon their existence. The wise man, even though he smile at them, will not altogether withhold his sympathy, and will say, "Let them enjoy their slang phrases and their choruses if they will; and if they cannot be happy, at least let them be merry.""


22nd December 2000

21st December 2000
  • A belated update to overall page on Restaurants and Cafes List of Interest from the USA 2000 trip. Including:
    • Montebello's (Sparkill, New York State, USA)
    • Phillips (Annapolis, Maryland, USA)
    • Pho Nam Vietnamese Restaurant (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)
    • Sesame Restaurant (Selden, Long Island, New York State, USA)
    • Sidewalk Cafe (Piermont, New York State, USA)

20th December 2000

17th December 2000


4th December 2000


1st December 2000

  • As part of Daresbury Laboratory Team Building Exercises:

    • Thanks to words and links from Thiti, add some history of Table Tennis to the Table Tennis page

28th November 2000


21st November 2000
  • After a so far quite exhausting schedule in the search of junket city, update Webpage about things that are "Deep!". Sort of. (including some donated items)



4th November 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

27th October 2000

24th October 2000


  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

23rd October 2000


22nd October 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).



21st October 2000
  • After getting back from the cafes of London, update overall page on Restaurants and Cafes List of Interest to include refinding and clarifying on some London restaurants and cafes (Sugo, Coffea and Tai Ka Lok). Add Oskar's in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany (after refinding the receipt with address on it).


  • Update Webpage about things that are "Deep!". Sort of.





16th October 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

15th October 2000
  • After getting back from the sacred never ending search for Junket city, update overall page on Restaurants and Cafes List of Interest to include some restaurants around Ludwigshafen/BASF City along the Rhine in Germany. Unfortunately lost the receipts for the Bayreuth, Barvaria. Oskar's is the place to go in Bayreuth.


  • Update Webpage about things that are "Deep!". Sort of.



1st October 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).



26th September 2000
  • After being majorly impuned via E-mail (the "W" word was used) querying where the DLCMOS (Daresbury Laboratory Coke Machine of Shame) exists - (rather obvious - "DARESBURY"!!). Modify this to make it clearer. Thus do a minor update to the DLCMOS - (Daresbury Laboratory Coke Machine of Shame). UNBELIEVABLE!!

21st September 2000

16th September 2000

15th September 2000


  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

14th September 2000


  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

13th September 2000


12th September 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

9th September 2000

8th September 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

7th September 2000



23rd August 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

21st August 2000



17th August 2000

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13th August 2000



6th August 2000
  • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

5th August 2000 - Evening



5th August 2000



4th August 2000



31st July 2000

  • A very belated update of May 2000 and June 1000 highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

30th July 2000 - Evening


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25th July 2000


16th July 2000


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17th June 2000



15th June 2000 - evening

  • As part of the "Garden Gnomes of Daresbury Laboratory Trilogy Web Pages"

    • Update Where Garden Gnomes Dare! (GAFS memorial) with pertinent observations by Detective Schofield on the Scalable South Face that he believes the GAFS assault team of mountaineering gnomes would have taken to reach their objective.



15th June 2000




13th June 2000 - afternoon

  • Repair dodgy image links in the Morris Dancers at Daresbury, Cheshire, England ("Morris Men of Manchester" perform during the NOBUGS 2000 Conference, June 2000 Conference)

    It looked OK when I did the page on the night - but that was after a bottle of the standard Laboratory conferance brand wine: "Vin e' Guerre". While in theory a tee-totaller, Paul piqued curiousity about French wines being optional on whether they taste good as "the method is everything" for French wines. Where as Australian, New Zealand, South African and American wine makers can be a bit more flexible about concentrating on making the wines taste good - even if that means importing grapes from outside the region, etc


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  • 6th May 2000

    • Update NCS - Non Competitive Scrabble Homepage with results of latest 5th May 2000 "The Schism of Man's Dichotomy" NCS Session at the Ring-O-Bells pub. ("If I die, tell the world I said hello.")








  • 25th April 2000
    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).



  • 22nd April 2000
    • Update the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK) to include web references to
      • Hannibal, with elephants, Crossing the Pyrenees, Rhone River, the Alps (early 217 BC)
      • Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, with elephants, Crossing the Pyrenees, Rhone River, the Alps; but is defeated at the Metaurus River (207 BC)

  • 21st April 2000
    • Bring back the (much missed by users) web pages documenting the DLCMOS - (Daresbury Laboratory Coke Machine of Shame).

  • 20th April 2000
    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

      After fleeing the UK and seeking assylum down under, webpage is getting back to normal form!!!!


  • 19th April 2000
    • Sorry for the Inconvenience!!! :-(

    • Laboratory Thought Police discovered personal homepage and ordered it sanitised (Borrocks Now! logo was one thing considered inappropriate). Rather than go down such a slippery slope on pandering to "anonymous" humourless droids: move this webpage to an assylum and safehaven in Melbourne, Australia at: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au -

      A CCP14 Project feedback E-mail from France already:
      
      >Seems that the CCP14 death is announced? A CCP14
      >with fantasy removed will not be the same. More silence
      >on the Internet.
      >
      >Best,

  • 17th April 2000

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  • 11th March 2000
    • Quickly update the webpage for the Daresbury Laboratory Fellwalking and Climbing Club to including information on the latest walk on Saturday 15 Apr 2000: Forest of Bowland, Lancashire

      Also, I felt oblidged to add the following to the webpage. A sad day when people of crass colonial stock have to make these corrections - in the hub of the British Empire!

      "(Note: A forest, by the traditional definition, does not necessarily need to have trees. It was an area outside the common law (owned by the king or monarch) where he normally did his hunting (from the Latin: foris meaning "outside"). I would challenge various "common" dictionary definitions of " a tract of wooded land in England formerly owned by the sovereign and used for game". The "wooded" part is optional! Challengers to this interpretation? (L.M.D. Cranswick - with Thanks to Steve back in Melbourne)"




  • 8th April 2000
    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).

    • Update: Flame Clouds of Daresbury - "The Sky's on Fire!" with some more images obtained from the DLSkyCam!






  • 26th March 2000
    • Update: Flame Clouds of Daresbury - "The Sky's on Fire!" with some more images obtained from the DLSkyCam!

    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK). Highlights now using the new position of the DLSkycam - though shutter speed script has to be re-optimised.

  • 25th March 2000
    • Due to the malicious activity of the NightLight outside the C14 office terrorising the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK); move the DLSkycam to a slightly different position. Plus give it's cousin, the Beamline 16.4 Indycam a chance to see the day. The Skycam was seeing more purple than normally healthy.



  • 19th March 2000
    • A major job, but finally bring highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK) up to date. Add section recording the Fascist Nightlight outside C14 and the havoc it is causing to good DLSkycam shots.

    • as part of the pages on the Canada (and USA) Winter 1999/2000 trip

    • Thanks to Andrew, update Poetry Page to include some links to poetry by W.H. Auden, John Dowland (In Darkness Let Me Dwell), John Betjeman (In Westminster Abbey, Diary of a Church Mouse), Philip Larkin (This Be The Verse), Lewis Carroll, Christopher Logue, A. D. Hope, Roger McGough, Edwin Brock.



  • 15th December 1999 to 18th March 2000
    • Will be away hacking on some X-ray diffraction hardware and software for 3 months at Queens University Department of Geology, in Kingston, Ontario Canada, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, USA. Will be trying to keep up to date with what the English skies are like via the DLSkyCam and keeping things up to date - network links willing.

  • 13th November 1999
    • Update: Flame Clouds of Daresbury - "The Sky's on Fire!" with Jan 9th 2000 Flame Storm image obtained from the DLSkyCam!

    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK). Highlights now complete to the end of January 2000. Including some quite good "flaming" cloudscapes on the 9th of January.

  • 11th November 1999
    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK). Highlights now complete to the end of 1999.


  • 1st March 2000
    • Add information on "Hard to Find Songs": with first link to "John Tyrone" by Heartbreak Bill

      Still looking for a CD audio of: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick - song title: "Brass Band Music". "Though was available on the vinyl LP 1977 recording "But Two Came By"".






  • 17th November 1999
    • Update the main webpage with information on "Ian and his Mentor" (2/3rds the way down the page).

  • 13th November 1999

  • 12th December 1999
    • Update the - Pubs and Restaurants around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, UK. with some more non-competitive scrabble playing. Though this time, a London Special session at the Fitzroy pub, London (well done to all).

    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK).
      Plus add the peom, "Slough" (1937) by John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) with a pointer to the ALCS - The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society.





  • 24th November 1999
    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK)

  • 21st November 1999
    • Reformat the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK) so it is quicker to download by putting monthly highlights in separate pages.


  • 12th November 1999
    • Update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK)




  • 25th/26th October 1999
    • After reaching a new high of non-competitive scrabble at the Ring-O-Bells pub with the team of Mark, Matt, Lachlan, Andrew Scott and Dave, update version of - Pubs and Restaurants around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, UK. with partial results that can be remember of this tournament of champians (is part of the Ring-O-Bells section).

      A trascendental leap in the anals of non-competitive scrabble playing. In the highlight game, no recognisable words from the concise Oxford Dictionary were played.









  • 21st September 1999
    • More Daresbury Laboratory Team Building Exercises - Table Tennis



  • 19th September 1999
    • A belated update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK)





  • 30th August 1999
    • A belated update of highlights from the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK)

    • Update Other Links page to include SouthPark movie site. Distrubing things came out at this packed screening. E.g.,: Based on the fact that the small lab group were the only part of the audience laughing when Bill Gates was shot implying computer literacy around Warrington at unacceptably low levels.


  • 15th August 1999
    • Getting pictures taken at IUCr Glasgow Congress in useable form to the Homepage.


  • 14th August 1999
    • Back from IUCr Glasgow Congress. Have got through 10 days of E-mail, caught up with Dilbert, User Friendly and Argon Zark. As well as perused what the weather was like during my absence (much cloud by the looks) using the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK)
      Update above mentioned page with more Sky highlights. (Including Possible Alien Activity Caught by the SkyCam! (though it is possible they are merely seagulls)






  • 18th July 1999
    • Update webpage on The 1860 publication: "Essays and Reviews" (by (Church of England theologians) Temple, Williams, Powell, Wilson, Goodwin, Pattison and Jowett) - with some web links referring to Jowett and the book.

    • DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK)
      Update above mentioned page with another Sky highlight.



  • 5th to 6th July 1999
    • DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK) has been having a few technical difficulties due to a work to rule by the Indy and workmen putting new blinds in the office. Normal services are now available. Unfortunately, as noted by one DLSkyCam addict, the DLSkyCam did not manage to capture lightening flashes during the big storm that occured near the recent weekend.

    • Update above mentioned page with some more highlights.

  • 4th July 1999
    • In between bouts of depression (still on-going) over buggy software trying to do my part for an IUCr Glasgow Congress CD-ROM, update Poetry Page to include some poetry by Al Young, A.E. Housman and Jyoti Shankar

    • Update Software, Windows, Linux, Computer and Computer Security News to include search-replace software for windows, case changing software for windows.


  • 13th June 1999
    • Spend weekend backing up and reinstalling Windows 95 Office Machine, and setting up an SGI in Canada via Secure-shell as a web-server.

    • Add SBT (Science Board Technology Division) CoffeeClub Page. Presently restricted to viewing from dl.ac.uk domain. (racy stuff)

    • Update Poetry Page to include some poetry by John Betjeman, "Business Girls" and "Slough".

    • Update Webpage about things that are "Deep!". Sort of. Add trivial on England in the 1500's.

    • Update Poetry Page to include some poetry by John Betjeman, "Business Girls" and "Slough".

    • Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
      It isn't fit for humans now,
      There isn't grass to graze a cow.
      Swarm over, Death!
      
      Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
      Those air-conditioned, bright canteens,
      Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
      Tinned minds, tinned breath.
      
      Mess up the mess they call a town-
      A house for ninety-seven down
      And once a week a half a crown
      For twenty years.
      
      And get that man with double chin
      Who'll always cheat and always win,
      Who washes his repulsive skin
      In women's tears:
      
      And smash his desk of polished oak
      And smash his hands so used to stroke
      And stop his boring dirty joke
      And make him yell.
      
      But spare the bald young clerks who add
      The profits of the stinking cad;
      It's not their fault that they are mad,
      They've tasted Hell.
      
      It's not their fault they do not know
      The birdsong from the radio,
      It's not their fault they often go
      To Maidenhead
      
      And talk of sport and makes of cars
      In various bogus-Tudor bars
      And daren't look up and see the stars
      But belch instead.
      
      In labour-saving homes, with care
      Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
      And dry it in synthetic air
      And paint their nails.
      
      Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
      To get it ready for the plough.
      The cabbages are coming now;
      The earth exhales.

  • 6th June 1999
    • Update the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera) - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK.
      At request via E-mail of "homesick expat", include GIF Timecounter so that current date and time are included on the page.

    • Update Poetry Page to include Rupert Brooke's "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester". ("Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?")
      Including Borkified (English-to-Swedish chef translated)



  • 29th May 1999
    • Add links to Evolutionary Psychology and Alan Sokal "Disrobing Postmodernism" in Other Links page.

  • Friday 28th May 1999
    • Add information on near magical "Hangover Vitamins". And "back-bar" theory linking i) sulfur dioxide and sodium sulfite sterilizing agents; ii) cheap Australian, British, English and American beer; iii) good German, Belgian and Dutch beer; and iv) hangovers.


  • 23rd to 24th May 1999
    • Introducing the DLSkyCam! - (Daresbury Laboratory Skyscape Camera) - Chronicling the Skies Above Cheshire, UK.

    • Waste incrediable amounts of time updating the Software, Windows, Linux, Computer and Computer Security News.
      Including network sniffing software, network sniffing software detectors, and mainly information on securing the IRIX 6.5.x portmapper against hacker probes.

  • 1:47am Tuesday 18th May 1999
    • With the co-operation of Dr DA (not real name), enable remote control of CCP14 Project Secretary/Lachlan Droid using Quicktime Virtual Reality Lachlan.
      [Rotate Lachlan-droid NOW!] Download Quicktime 4

  • 8th May 1999
    • Update on the World War One (WWI) Patriotic Poem on how - "The Surreys Played the Game"
      Still trying to find the original author and reference but may have to get a hold of "Oshorn, E.B. (ed) "The Muse in Arms" London 1917 pp.viii-ix" as the "Girouard" book refers back the previous reference as well.
      • From Copac - http://copac.ac.uk/copac/
      • "The muse in arms : a collection of war poems, for the most part written in the field of action, by seamen, soldiers, and flying men who are serving, or have served, in the Great War / edited, with an introduction, by E.B. Osborn".
        Publisher: London : John Murray, 1917;
        Holding Libraries: Birmingham - Main Library ; C 5/2/20, Reference // Main Library ; D 526.2
      • "The muse in arms : a collection of war poems / for the most part written in the field of action, by seamen, soldiers, and flying men who are serving, or have served, in the great war; ed., with a introduction, by E. B. Osborn.".
        Publisher: London : J. Murray, 1918;
        Holding Libraries: Cambridge - contact Cambridge University Library : Ver.7.91.281
        Holding Libraries: Glasgow - Main Library ; English F127 OSB // Special Collection, Main Library ; Sp Coll RB 1781

    • Update Poetry Page to include poetry by Max Ehrmann (1872 - 1945) (Desiderata, Calm Faces, I Sit and Wait, Away) and William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) (Invictus, et al).

    • Usual routine updating of Software, Windows, Linux, Computer and Computer Security News.


  • 28th April 1999
    • Add Webpage about things that are "Deep!". Or seemed so at the time - Mainly quotes (one quote really) on signatures of newsgroup postings. Added some poetry extracts as well. Makes looking for a stealth scan detector software for SGI IRIX seem not such a waste of time.


  • 25th April 1999
    • Add webpage on The 1860 publication: "Essays and Reviews" (by (Church of England theologians) Temple, Williams, Powell, Wilson, Goodwin, Pattison and Jowett) - scanned into JPG format with commentaries from other publications - A.D. White, Bertrand Russell, Brian Silver.

    • Hook up those spare PC CPU cycles to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm

  • 19th to 20th April 1999
    • Update World War One (WWI) Patriotic Poem on how - "The Surreys Played the Game" to include recommended book on the first day of the battle of the Somme in WWI. ("The first day on the Somme : 1 July 1916", Martin Middlebrook, (Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1984, c1971), ISBN/ISSN: 0140171347)



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