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This afternoon my son convinced me to put together something upon which to play the huge pile of vinyl lurking at the back of the garage. This proved to be a bit trickier than I thought.

First, I took the old Ariston Q Deck record player out of a cupboard, only to find that its power supply was missing. Some more digging produced this ancient power adapter, which did the trick:

Next I needed to deal with the fact that the only amplifier in the house capable of taking input from a record deck was knackered! It only puts out sound to the left speaker. Upon further investigation, I discovered that the headphone socket was still working OK. So I realised that I could take the output from the headphone socket and put it into my travel speakers.

Except that the headphone socket is “big jack” and the cable from the speackers is “mini-jack”! More hunting around by my son came up with the right adaptor, and we were sorted!

Highlights of the afternoon’s listening included:

• The Beatles: Abbey Road – all of side 2
• The Beatles: Revolver – She Said She Said
• The Cure: Standing on the Beach – In Between Days
• OMD: Architecture and Morality – Souvenir
• Genesis: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – Carpet Crawlers
• The Chills: Kaleidoscope World: Doledrums
• The Dukes of Stratosphear: 25 O’ Clock – The Mole from the Ministry
• 1000 Violins: If I Were a Bullet (12” single)

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Tom Hoffman’s Google Reader shared items brought me to this NYTimes article. It’s important stuff. I’d like to think that we are a bit more cautious about dishing out praise on this side of the pond, but we still seem to spend a lot of time praising achievement rather than effort. This is what the article condemns. Read it, then tell me what you think

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On Tuesday Monday we went to the Lecht. The snow was pretty slushy, but we had a laugh building a tiny kicker. Craig and Samantha had a go at snowboarding too – both naturals!

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My son and I are sitting in Cafe Bleu enjoying the free hotspot and waiting for Ellis Brigham to open so we can get some essentials for our day’s boarding.  The weather is a bit grey but the road to the Lecht is open!  Can’t wait!

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The account hosting the FreeMIS demo site got hacked just after Christmas, and I stripped out all the sites I was hosting on that account until I worked out where the vulnerability was.  It turned out that the vulnerability was in a old Joomla extension, but I have not yet got around to switching the FreeMIS demo site back on. It’s on my list of things to do this weekend

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