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  • Cord Chaos

    This is one way to organize the cords.

    plug-wall

    But, it isn’t so easy here with so many devices and all different kinds of plugs, British, European and American and most of the stuff at 240 volt but some only running on 120.

    Rats nest of cables

    Thre is an ADSL Router with a second router and hub on top. And a spare ADSL router which I’m working on putting online to see if it is more reliable than the once I’m using now. But I do believe the un-reliability is from my ISP not my hardware. And below there are two Western Digital 1 TB NAS drives, an old NAS drive and an old USB drive. My USB hub is also overloaded! And some devices won’t work through a hub. Argh.

    Network and Storage

    This post and the first image were fully 100% inspired by this post on Book of Joe.

  • City Snooty Shop in Fintas

    City Snooty

    This is in the Fintas Coop which has a fancy spiral ramp to go up to the main coop grocery area. I was there to get money from the NBK bank machine which is inside the coop mall.

    Click here to see it on a Google Map. For some reason I can’t embed this map into a blog post?!

  • Sushi Night

    Tonight was sushi at Sakura. Here’s the appetiser, miso soup.

    Miso Soup at Sakura

    Just playing with my camera phone then a few tweaks in Adobe Lightroom

  • Diving Speeds of Birds

    Amazing how fast birds can dive and maneuver. Aerodynamics at it finest. Peregrine falcon (above): 242 mph (or 390 km per hour)

    From Book of Joe

  • An Apple a Day

    apple

  • Shopping day today at the Sultan Centre

    They don’t have the cheapest or the widest selection of produce in the Al Kout one but I didn’t want to take more time to go anywhere else.

    To convert the currency at today’s rates

    1 Kuwait Dinar = 2.1314 GBP
    or 3.9131 CAD
    or 2.4808 EUR
    or 3.4982 USD

    I got the rates from Oanda.com