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• 2013-05-20: Monday.

  2013-05-20

  
  
  Up early, mail chew; plugged at some make check failures,
  and tested build pieces on Windows and Linux. Built slideware, Lunch. Back to
  mail, debugging and patch review for the freeze. Worked late.
  
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• 2013-05-19: Sunday.

  2013-05-19

  
  
  Up lateish; NCC - visiting speaker: empty cross + tomb &
  occupied throne. Back for lunch, Peter over - caught up with him through
  the afternoon. Played with babes in the garden and slugged in the evening
  happily.
  
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• 2013-05-18: Saturday.

  2013-05-18

  
  
  Up earlyish; mail chew, poked at builds, and helped babes
  with games; M. struggling with the concept of minesweeper. Breakfast,
  out to Noughton Park for a wander around - various tree climbing feats,
  and a fine wander. Back for a disgracefully late, large, fried
  breakfast/lunch thing.
  
  
  E. out to Sue's to play with Sophie; checked and re-started
  a Windows build.
  
  
  Pleased to read theregister&#039;s take on 3D <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/10/oh_no_its_the_plastic_3d_gun/">printed
  guns</a> - only for the incredibly wealthy, deranged individual that likes to
  kill at ultra-close range. Annoyed by self promotion and the stupid knee-jerk
  responses it produces. There is a photo of a far more dangerous, and
  often cheaper device <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe">here</a>,
  with which you can make a reasonably functional gun that &#039;actually works(TM)&#039;.
  
  
  One of the supreme amusements of life is that as soon as you do
  anything you think is cool &amp; new you find out it&#039;s already been done
  before: see this neat new 3D printer thing ? turns out you didn&#039;t meet the
  self-replicating &quot;anyone who has a lathe can build a lathe&quot; mob of
  yesteryear (did you miss the industrial revolution perhaps ?). But wait !
  surely these un-controllable, self-replicating 3D tools are a radical threat
  to the civilised world ? - time to ban the lathe, milling machine,
  drill-press ... toothbrush etc. ? Perhaps not.
  
  
  Dinner. Argh - git submodules just beat me up again when I least
  needed it - translations module acting stupidly, and refusing
  to update - combined with trying to remove that submodule (can you even
  remove submodules? - and failing).
  
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