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Dinner at Saporito in Livorno while staying in the Max Hotel
After having visited Pisa along the way we drove to Livorno to Max Hotel. This turned out to be situated at the outskirts of the city in a not too pedestrian friendly neighbourhood. Parking in front was limited but there was a large parking space next door catering to shoppers of some kind of supermarket.…
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A Quantum of Solace
After the dramatic finale of Casino Royale, a Quantum of Solace is an appropriate title for this sequel. Bond gets his revenge but it brings him very little solace, so quantum is the right word to use. The movie begins where the previous one ended but then soon seems to diverge in a direction with…
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The Struggle to Stay Active: Running and Climbing Stairs
This year I have been struggling to systematically log my weekly running kms and I am way behind my year target. Yesterday I managed to go for another 7k run and then went for a 6k walk but in terms of running I haven’t even been reaching half of my 17k weekly ambition. In terms…
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Melkzelen
I don’t know for 100% sure what melkezelen means exactly but one thing is for sure, it is not something you should do 😀. The internet gives some hints. Although the verb doesn’t exist there is a reference to the noun melkezel, literally translated into English as milk donkey. A melkezel is according to the…
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Exploring Free Dataset Resources: 2018 Squirrel Census
On day 25 of the 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp a dataset containing a 2018 census of squirrels in Central Park is used to practice working with Pandas. The data comes from New York Open Data. As the name suggests this is source of freely available data on many subjects in New York. If…
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Casino Royale
This summer I decided to watch all the Daniel Craig James Bond movies again in sequence, starting with Casino Royale. The movie starts in black and white before the opening credits showing James Bond earning his 00 licence by killing 2 people. After the credits we switch to colour and the main story of the…
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Exploring Pisa: Lunch and Landmarks on the Way to Corsica
On our second day driving to Corsica we had a short leg of a little over 300km between Milan and Livorno. The reason for this was that we had an early ferry on Sunday morning so we wanted to avoid getting to Livorno very late and having to get up early in the morning to…
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Extending the Life of My Mac Pro Trash Can
Some time ago I wrote that I bought a new Mac Studio to replace my old 2013 Mac Pro. In reality I have ended up continuing to use the Mac Pro on a daily basis. The main reason being that other people in the family use the Mac Studio as well and I want access…
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Bollate
This year we went on a vacation to Corsica again. We decided to drive and cover a lot of kilometres on our first day. We drove to just before Milan and booked a hotel in Bollate. This was a bit under 950km and driving was quite smooth, not so many traffic jams, those we saw…
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One Fifth of the Way: 100 Days of Coding Python Bootcamp
After a 2 week holiday without coding I continued with this course this weekend and managed to finish days 19 and 20. In days 20 and 21 the objective is to build the snake game and while this by itself is not very interesting to me, it did help me to learn how to create…
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