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Monte Renoso Trail on Corsica
On one of our first days on Corsica we decided to go for a walk and picked Monte Renoso as the target. We found this route on Komoot. The route from our apartment to the starting point took us along a narrow and tortuous but scenic road which managed to drain most of our battery.…
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HP38G: Another addition to the calculator collection
I was recently surfing on eBay for an HP calculator and ended up buying 2. One is this HP38G. I didn’t do my research properly of course and only realised after it arrived that this is a traditional style calculator, not the typical HP RPN type I am used to. Apart from that it looks…
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Finished the Intermediate Section: 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp
Today I finished the day 31 capstone project of the course concluding the intermediate section: Next are another 15 or so days at the intermediate+ level. The capstone project of day 31 was to build a flashcard app. This was a quite useful project for me because it ties in nicely with one of the…
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HP48G: A New Addition to the Calculator Collection
A while ago I was browsing Ebay and came across a second hand HP48G which looked quite nice. Price was OK so I decided to buy it. It travelled quite a while coming from the US but it was in working order. The included batteries were apparently old because they died after a month or…
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Musée d’archéologie d’Aleria
On our first real day on Corsica we did the necesary grocery shopping first so that we could have breakfast, lunch and dinner at our apartment when we wanted to. As we didn’t get up too early that took us to lunch after which we decided to go for a short afternoon visit to the…
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Skyfall
The third James Bond movie with Daniel Craig and arguably the best one in my opinion. The movie introduces the new Q and Moneypenny characters and Javier Bardem is an excellent villain controlling events from behind a curtain. In that way this movie is also more a whodunnit in which the relationship between Bond and…
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Residence Marine de Bravone on Corsica
On our second trip to Corsica we took the early ferry from Livorno. Departure at 9am, latest check in at 8am and leaving our hotel at 7am to have some buffer. This turned out to be a good idea because although we got to the harbour in about 20 minutes it took us a bit…
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One Quarter of the Way: 100 Days of Coding Python Bootcamp
After having applied the object oriented programming paradigm in a few lessons building games like snake and pong with Turtle the course deviates to explain how to read and write csv files and introduces the pandas library. On day 26 list and dictionary comprehension are introduced as powerful and elegant ways to create a list…
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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…
