{"id":614,"date":"2002-10-14T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/10\/14\/and-so-it-begins-the-week-that-is\/"},"modified":"2002-10-14T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-14T09:12:00","slug":"and-so-it-begins-the-week-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/10\/14\/and-so-it-begins-the-week-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And so, it begins&#8230; The week, that is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a soggy Monday morning. I&#8217;m still tired from the combination of being<br \/>\nout late\/early Saturday night\/Sunday morning, getting home at nearly half<br \/>\ntwo, and the change of daylight due to the season. My sleep patterns get<br \/>\nthoroughly messed up by the accelerated day length change at this time of<br \/>\nyear.<\/p>\n<p>BTG was fun, pictures from it can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earth.ox.ac.uk\/%7Esteve\/pictures\/BTG\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd no, Moreen doesn&#8217;t usually look like that or wear such strange things.<br \/>\nThe pictures themselves are the raw photographs and i know now that I need<br \/>\nto remove the skylight filter if I&#8217;m going to use the flash. Oh, and the<br \/>\nextra dark pictures are caused by either my finger accidently being over<br \/>\nthe flash sensor or the subject being out of the range of the flash. Oh well.<br \/>\n(And, yes, Myk DID spend a lot of the time laying down on the floor and that<br \/>\nwas even before the shampers came out.)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was spent recovering with an interlude to put the pictures on a<br \/>\nCD, drive into work and install them so other people could have the viewing<br \/>\npleasure.<\/p>\n<p>I missed the end of Scrapheap Challenge last night due to a power cut.. I<br \/>\nwas just tucking into my dinner, had watched the first team do the first<br \/>\npart of their challenge and sail off down the track when the telly and lights<br \/>\nwent out. Apparently, most of East Oxford was plunged into darkness. Anyway,<br \/>\nit was 1.5 hours before the electricity returned. I must admit it was quite<br \/>\npleasant having no lights around.. though the sky glow from the light polution<br \/>\ngenerated by the rest of Oxford was annoying and lit everywhere to the same<br \/>\nlevel as the brightest full moon.<\/p>\n<p>The two things I hate about living in (or rather on the edge of) a town are<br \/>\n(a) noise pollution from annoying humans with engines, stereos or voices,<br \/>\nand (b) Light pollution from streetlights, high powered security lights which<br \/>\nare never turned off and car headlights. If I could afford to I&#8217;d live back<br \/>\nin the country where there are less of these humans making a mess of the<br \/>\nplace.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today is the day I take my little practical with the fresh faced<br \/>\nkiddies where those who know enough to be dangerous with computers will race<br \/>\nahead dispite my warning at the beginning and screw up their e-mail set-up,<br \/>\nleaving the last 20 minutes for me to try to clear up the mess. Which reminds<br \/>\nme, I could do with finding some people to help demonstrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s a soggy Monday morning. I&#8217;m still tired from the combination of being out late\/early Saturday night\/Sunday morning, getting home at nearly half two, and the change of daylight due to the season. 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