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In stasis

TheCra1gsterFebruary 26, 20203

Nothing puts a dent in your hopes and dreams like cancer. Forget about next month, all we can really do is worry about the immediate future. What’s on the docket for next week, so to speak. ‘In stasis’ – an apt if unusual term. We’ve finished the first round of chemo...

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Life rolls on

TheCra1gsterFebruary 20, 20201

Another first – pushing the wife around the local mall in a wheelchair! I might as well have been driving a bulldozer as people can’t get out of the way fast enough. Lovin it! In many ways, life rolls on! Meals have to be prepped, dishes washed and clothes hung out to dry. I’ve...

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Cloudy, with a chance of chemo

TheCra1gsterFebruary 18, 20201

At least she has a decent view, I thought, as I ponder the 200 buck plus price of the room for her one night stay. Ah, the concrete jungle which is Bangkok. How I miss gazing out at it while near comatose in the back of a taxi after the bars have called “Time, Gentlemen”....

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How to scan with a wifi networked Epson L355 on Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty)

TheCra1gsterJanuary 17, 20201

Long story short – possible, but no walk in the park. Beginning to think we linux users are masochists. The price of absolute power, I suppose. It’s a shame my ScanSnap 1500 broke down sometime ago. Not so much broke-down, rather some nasty looking goo started leaking out of it and I...

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Merry Xmas 2019

TheCra1gsterJanuary 14, 20202

How was your Xmas day? We had a quiet one here, just the two of us if you don’t count the Canadian lobster. The wife had to work in the morning while I teed up some carols on YT. It was enjoyable to listen to them throughout the day. We started with some prawns on...

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Getting the Ricoh SP230 DNw up and running on Ubuntu 14.04

TheCra1gsterJanuary 3, 20202

Let’s call it a Xmas present to myself – I purchased this printer as my old HP Laserjet had finally given up the ghost. It owed me nothing as I managed to squeeze about 8 years out of it! Remember kids – getting it out of the box is the easy part, it the setup...

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I’ve dropped 24kgs without really trying

TheCra1gsterDecember 23, 20192

I’ve been overweight for most of my life – still am but things are heading in the right direction once again 🙂 Friend Marko sent me a pic from Dec 2013 recently and I thought I’d try on the shirt pictured in the photo as I knew I’d dropped a fair amount of weight since...

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A taste of Issan

TheCra1gsterDecember 18, 20190

With my ‘permission to stay’ date fast approaching, it was time again to head to the other side of the Thai border for a while. This time around, I decided to catch an AirAsia flight to Vientiane, Laos and stayed the night before heading south to visit a few places I hadn’t seen...

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Beer Uncle @ Paseo shopping mall

TheCra1gsterOctober 7, 20190

I think I’ve managed to find possibly the only bar in a shopping center in Thailand. Beer Uncle, located at Paseo Shopping Mall on Ramkhamhaeng Road, is a quaint spot with a couple of fridges full of craft beers which, it has to be said, ain’t the cheapest. But if you want to drink...

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Tech tedbits

TheCra1gsterOctober 4, 20190

Here are a few things I’ve struggled with this week. Javascript addEventListener I tried to implement a simple accordion using some code I found at w3schools but couldn’t get it to work (within WordPress) I had to resort to using jQuery and finally got the desired result using the...

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