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We got to New Orleans, checked into the hotel and having driven up and down most of the one-way streets, more by accident than anything else, we had a reasonable idea where various places were and how to get there. Given it was getting late we went to the Riverwalk shopping …
Texarkana to New Orleans is roughly a 420 mile journey which should take (according to mapquest.com) 7 and a half hours. Lori and I left the kids with her family and did the journey on our own. Although quite a lot of the tourist attractions in New Orleans are the kind of thing …
Mention “weather” and “Texas” in the same sentence and everyone seems to imagine hot scorching sun, not a cloud in the sky and high humidity, but it’s not at all like that. It’s more like the weather in the UK - when it’s cold and wet, …
I noticed when we first arrived that some of the quarters (quarter of a dollar - single coin) had various states on them. Figured I might try and collect them all - until tonight when I found out just how many there are already out. Seems that approximately every 10 weeks, the …
We landed about 30m early but this time saving was soon swalled up by the immigration process that I’m sure took significantly longer than the last time we were here. I guess it’s partly to do with the US-VISIT process. This basically involves digitally taking …
Despite my prediction yesterday that we’d have a McDonalds breakfast, we didn’t. By the time we’d managed to get all the baggage checked in, we figured we’d better get through the security gates into the main departure lounge as it was getting a little …
After an uneventful drive down, we checked into Le Meridian hotel which is right next to the north terminal at London Gatwick airport. Very convenient for the flight tomorrow morning at 10am. We should be able to wake up, pack the cases and walk to the terminal ready to check-in …
Well, it looks like the changes I made a while back aren’t having any impact on the number of comment spams that are being posted here so I’m going to have to try a couple more ideas at some point. For now, I’ll just keep trimming them out of the db so you …
Apple Mail likes to prompt about self-signed certificates when connecting to imap or pop servers over ssl. Unfortunately this gets rather annoying after a while so here’s how to import the self-signed certificate into your system. This is based on a hint from Mac OSX hints …
For several weeks now (since a logrotate version upgrade) I’ve been experiencing postrotate scripts that weren’t working. Putting it down to a temporary glitch I just ignored it but today I finally decided to work out what was up.