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"Sharpe" Weekend in Woolwich, at the Firepower museum
Living History Sharpe WeekendGo back in time at the Living History and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe Weekend at Firepower this 17 - 18 April. Meet cast and crew of the ITV drama, see re-enactments from the Napoleonic Period, and much of the Museum's world-famous collection is from the Napoleonic period when Sharpe is set so Firepower is the perfect ( Read more... ) -
"Tokyo Day" in London
... a weekend exhibition of traditional and modern culture, from Silk Painting to Anime, and of things typically Tokyo, in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre.
Sat & Sun 30/31 Jan
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Mostly for Ladysprite: Bigos
Here's a family economy/bucket cooking version of a Polish hunter's stew, Bigos. My step-grandfather was Polish, so I'm sure there was some influence from that quarter. Serves 2-4.
- 1 medium cabbage, sliced thinly
- 4-8 thick sausages (usually pork, but a mixture of different pork, beef and venison would be closer to the original ( Read more... )
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We are stardust, we are golden...
The Leonids are back - Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. For London, the weather forecast is marginal, and we'll have poor viewing of the (very well modelled) peak. It should still be good, though, if clear.
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"House" - S6 "Epic Fail"
The whole episode is built around an immersive video game, which looked great. Some lovely ideas, especially when the patient went nuts and the hospital turned into the game ( Read more... ) -
Reasons to have DirectX 11
(Or an NVIDIA DirectX 10 GPU)
Your graphics card can run as a coprocessor, using "Direct Compute".
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/partner/archive/2009/08/22/gpu-computing-and-windows-7.aspx
In other news, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has promised that an external Blu-ray drive is coming to the Xbox 360 - probably just in time to sit next to my ( ( Read more... ) -
Later....
Paloma Faith - bonkers, great performer, great dress, great tats. (yes, tAts ( Read more... ) -
Watch the Skies...
The Perseids are back...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17572
And the forecast for Tue/Wed night (for London, anyway) is clear, though with moonlight