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Tuesday, 10 March 2026 Dereel Images for 10 March 2026
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Another breakfast experiment
Topic: food and drink, opinion Link here

Following yesterday's surprise lack of hunger, experimented with breakfast today, in particular using (once again) cabbage instead of gai lan and a smaller quantity of noodles. The result:


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Not to be repeated. Cabbage and Chinese-like soups don't mix. Frying is a different matter.


Where are the Makernotes?
Topic: photography, technology, history, opinion Link here

Looking back through my diary, found this article about Exif and Makernotes. But the link to the Makernotes was broken, and on searching the replacement, found that it was self-referential and contained no information. There's not even much point in searching for them: they'll be out of date too, and clearly the Exif data for the OM System OM-1 Mark II must contain much more information, since it has overflowed the original storage area.

Fifteen years ago Olypedia contained a lot of useful technical information. Others did too, but I can't find anything any more. The best is here, but I know that they're not complete. Why? Have people lost interest?


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Another mouse bites the dust
Topic: animals Link here

The cats were particularly interested in a particular place in the garage last night. When I went in this morning, I saw that it was somewhat rearranged:


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Who did it?


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And why? That was the first thing that I saw:


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More cat enclosures
Topic: animals, general Link here

Paul Donaghy around today to measure up the dog run for keeping Bruno in. We got as far as the basics: we'll need no fewer than 6 columns 6' × 4-5" (yes, that's the way they measure things in this metric country) and lots of timber (about 22 m of 3" × 2") to hold up the roof, which is really only there to hold up the netting to keep birds out. What we currently have is: the run is 7.15 × 12.25 m and 1.75 m high. Covering that in netting will use the surprising quantity of 155.9 m². Now if only the birds would stay away, we could get by with a fraction of that. Started keeping a page, but I'm not sure that it will stay.

Should we use steel instead? It would be much less obtrusive and potentially cheaper.


Oil prices
Topic: politics, general Link here

Thanks to the world pacifists Donald Trump and Bibi, the world oil prices are going through the roof. This page seems to give a useful overview.


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