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Derek Fountain : News
Programmer, Writer, Consultant, News Reporter
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News from the archives - Newest first!
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Feb 25 - Charles Austen air pump is no more
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Feb 25 - ZX Spectrum non maskable interrupts programming
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Jan 25 - Another Spectrum game
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Nov 24 - A study in 5V tolerance
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Nov 24 - Tina gets a nasty surprise. So does a rat.
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Jul 24 - A slug takes out the electricity
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Jun 24 - Rhubarb is progressing nicely
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Jun 24 - This is what I was doing when I was 19
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Apr 24 - Investigating an old voltage booster circuit
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Apr 24 - Hardware for diagnosing unhappy retro computers
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Feb 24 - A geeky example of ZX Spectrum C programming
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Feb 24 - An exercise in electronics failure
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Jan 24 - In search of winter sunshine...
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Sep 23 - A small interposer board for the ZX Spectrum's edge connector
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Aug 23 - Driving a clever chip the clever way
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Jul 23 - ZX Spectrum Expansion System, Recreated
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Jul 23 - Bringing all my ZX projects together in one place
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Feb 23 - My open source ZX Spectrum ROM interface
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Jan 23 - My own, open source ZX Spectrum lower RAM module
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Oct 22 - A ZX Spectrum fix
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Oct 22 - Q:Can I lay bricks? A:Not really, no
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Aug 22 - I fixed the well with a bit of firewood
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Aug 22 - Venturing back into ZX Spectrum hardware
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Jul 22 - My Z80 disassembly of the ZX Spectrum classic
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May 22 - Another game for the ZX Spectrum
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May 22 - Update on those repotted maples
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Mar 22 - Repotting potential bonsai
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Feb 22 - Another intruder with a raised tail
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Jan 22 - Putting the BBC right
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Dec 21 - The new windows are finally complete
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Dec 21 - Cows broke in!
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Oct 21 - Finally! The new windows are going in
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Sep 21 - Nothing against moles per se...
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Aug 21 - I made a gate!
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Aug 21 - Problem in the garden
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Jul 21 - Getting rid of some stuff
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Apr 21 - Technological triumph
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Apr 21 - A snake? In England?
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Apr 21 - 25 years a Ltd Co contractor, no more
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Jan 21 - A photo of a pony. Nice though
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Nov 20 - A sappling takes its chance
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Nov 20 - The Great AA Ripoff
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Nov 20 - Playing with a joule thief circuit
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Oct 20 - We had our hedges trimmed, the big way
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Oct 20 - Our neighbours cut the pine trees down
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Sep 20 - Fixing a keyboard membrane with conductive paint
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Aug 20 - The spotted flycatchers came back for another try
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Jul 20 - I put my PCB creation together
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Jul 20 - My first PCB creation
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Jun 20 - Warning, distressing ending
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Jun 20 - Back behind the wheel
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Jun 20 - Lighting up a chalkboard
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May 20 - I finally used my pocket hole jig
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Apr 20 - An unusual flower
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Apr 20 - A bite to eat, under lockdown
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Apr 20 - A double rainbow seen from home
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Dec 19 - I made a new postbox
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Nov 19 - A double kill on the glue traps
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Oct 19 - My Raspberry Pi powered LED lamp
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Oct 19 - Insect faces, under a microscope
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Sep 19 - A 3D print to help a seamstress
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Aug 19 - The pretty roots of my Yuccas
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Aug 19 - Symbols in the Fuse debugger
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Jul 19 - Defeated, once again
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Jul 19 - A 3D print for a trinket box
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Jun 19 - A flickering LED from a Christmas light
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Jun 19 - A sad tale, with a happy ending
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Jun 19 - A camera to monitor glue traps
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Jun 19 - Ew.
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May 19 - Dissection of a tyre pressure gauge
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Mar 19 - I finally released my Spectrum game
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Feb 19 - My new personal trivia dumping ground, Google+ posts transferred!
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Feb 19 - Google killed my Google+ stream, so I archived it in one big HTML post. Better than losing it!
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Oct 18 - A look at a debugging technique in Spectrum development
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Aug 18 - Photos of the wood burner installation in our lounge
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Aug 18 - A techie one for Spectrum C programmers
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Mar 18 - My Z88DK ZX Spectrum Getting Started Guide continues to develop
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Mar 18 - It snowed this far south. Can't not photograph that
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Jun 17 - I wrote a series of articles on C development for the ZX Spectrum
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Jun 17 - A foray into the world of robotics
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Nov 16 - 3 years after the holiday, my East Australia photos are finally done :)
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Aug 16 - Oak Sudden Limb Failure is a thing
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Jul 16 - Water Treatment Unit installation
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Jan 15 - Photos from the Farnborough Airshow, 2014
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Aug 14 - Cuteness
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Jun 14 - I put a video on Youtube! Don't get too excited...
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Jun 14 - A long lost set of photos from the USA, 2011
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May 14 - Photos from our Scotland trip
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Nov 13 - Wombats in the wild
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Nov 13 - An miserable experience with some unpleasant people
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May 13 - Spider. Big one. Gulp.
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May 13 - Photos from our trip to Wales
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Apr 13 - Beach with friends
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Jan 13 - New toy!
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Jan 13 - My Google Plus account
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Apr 12 - A summary of a difficult 3 months
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Nov 11 - Photos from our travels around the UK
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Jul 11 - My Android Depth of Field Calculator app goes live
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May 11 - Photos from our Vienna city break
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Nov 10 - Finally, photos from Jersey in July
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Jun 10 - Photos from our Florida trip earlier this year
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Feb 10 - My first dose of programming fame remembered
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Nov 09 - Tina, a blur in the garden
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Oct 09 - 4x4 Driving
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Sep 09 - Greasemonkey script to fix iii.co.uk portfolio layout
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Aug 09 - Carnage in the Close
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Jun 09 - A happy event
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Apr 09 - Industry in the garden
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Mar 09 - A handful of car photos
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Feb 09 - Time to let Google et al find this
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Dec 08 - Photos from our trip to the southern USA
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Aug 08 - Hedgehoggery is word, y'know...
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Aug 08 - Photos from the Farnborough Airshow
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Aug 08 - Photos from our recent trip to Iceland
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May 08 - A look at a hacker's utility
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Feb 08 - Some photos from a cold morning by the River Itchen
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Jan 08 - A spot of experimentation with an advanced Photoshop technique
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Dec 07 - Photos from our recent Boston trip
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Sep 07 - A small set of photos taken one evening in Perth
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Sep 07 - Photos from Marwell Zoo now online
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Aug 07 - Someone pointed out that many of my old articles have fallen off the web, so I uploaded local copies
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Aug 07 - The next phase of Core Minutes is up
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Jul 07 - Gluttony in the garden
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Jun 07 - The sad and painful story of how a great device is poorly supported under my favoured OS
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Jun 07 - Adverts on this site? No way?!
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Jun 07 - I've made a start on the Perth holiday photos
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May 07 - Finally, the Core Minutes project goes live
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Apr 07 - Aussie Holiday Next Week
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Mar 07 - A Wonder of Nature!
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Mar 07 - Fixing a Portrait with CurveMeister
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Mar 07 - The CurveMeister Course
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Jan 07 - Painting with light
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Dec 06 - Confusion during a site clean up
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Dec 06 - Now for something different
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Aug 06 - I had a ponder and took some photos to explore the effects of focal lengths for portraits
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Aug 06 - Turns out we're not going back to Oz after all. Sigh.
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Jun 06 - Wherwell Fete - very British!
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Jun 06 - Photos from our recent trip to Tallinn with Tina's parents
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May 06 - An unscientific test of the performance of my 70-200mm f/4.0 L lens
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May 06 - Photos from Rome
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May 06 - Complete overhaul of the photos section
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Apr 06 - Manor farm in springtime with a 200mm lens
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Mar 06 - And finally, nearly a year after we went, New York
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Mar 06 - Washington photos are up
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Mar 06 - After far too long, the Chicago photos are online
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Mar 06 - Tickets back to Perth bought!
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Jan 06 - Moving house
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Dec 05 - I've stopped skimming my spam for false positives
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Dec 05 - Moose spotting with a camera in the Rockies
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Dec 05 - Added a few photos from Aspen, Colorado
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Dec 05 - I've had a bit of a problem...
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Dec 05 - Added half a dozen shots from Kodachrome Basin, Utah
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Dec 05 - Created a map page for our USA trip
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Nov 05 - My investigation into the issue of RAW vs JPEG images
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Nov 05 - Photos from a scenic drive
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Nov 05 - I've had a bit of a problem...
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Oct 05 - Photos from the Slot Canyons of Utah
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Oct 05 - Bryce Canyon photos now online
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Oct 05 - 8 Lark Close is now officially for sale
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Sep 05 - More USA 2005 photos, the drive from Zion to Bryce
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Sep 05 - A couple of shots Richard and I took of our cars
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Sep 05 - The car got washed, so I photographed it!
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Aug 05 - Photos from Zion National Park
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Aug 05 - The USA photographic tour continues
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Aug 05 - Photos from San Francisco
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Aug 05 - Photos from the Hawaii helicopter flight
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Aug 05 - West coast Hawaii photos
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Jul 05 - East coast Hawaii photos
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Jul 05 - Photos of Cairns online
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Jul 05 - Normality resumes, kind of...
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Apr 05 - A final collection of Perth photos before we leave.
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Apr 05 - An exploration of when I need to use a tripod.
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Apr 05 - A brief attempt at Aussie Architecture and wildlife.
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Mar 05 - A few shots taken at Hillarys Boat Harbour.
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Mar 05 - Some rather nice shots I took at Ocean Reef Harbour.
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Mar 05 - I put up an unscientific test of my new 17-40mm f4.0 L lens.
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Mar 05 - The first photos I took with my new 20D camera.
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Mar 05 - I just got my new camera!
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Mar 05 - I split photo collection over a couple of pages.
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Mar 05 - I made the old news stories directly accessible.
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Feb 05 - I finally rewrote my CV. It's now online.
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Feb 05 - Our Australian passports have arrived.
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Jan 05 - The travel agent phoned...
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Jan 05 - Details of our trip to England.
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Jan 05 - A tough decision is made.
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Dec 04 - Does this site look better to you?
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Dec 04 - Some photos of Melbourne online.
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Nov 04 - More writing efforts published.
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