Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tortoise Hibernation Unit

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  When I used to watch Blue Peter hibernation involved putting the tortoise in a cardboard box full of newspaper and putting that in the garage for 3 months. Looking at the program records a number of tortoises died in hibernation and knowing what we know now, that’s not surprising. There’s a lot more too it than putting the animal in a box and hoping for the best.   To successfully hibernate the tortoise needs an exact temperature range as …

100 reasons to hate

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Today I was forced by supply to buy a metal ruler marked only in inches.

Budget Truck Rental Review

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Inspired by the Masala Zone in Camden review, I’d like to share with you all my experiance with Budget Truck Rental.   So, back on Thursday I booked a cargo van online with Budget Truck Rental.  After booking the Budget Truck Rental van for Sunday at a local location I gave my credit car details to reserve the Budget Truck Rental van. Shortly afterwards I received my confirmation mail from Budget Truck Rental with the words Your truck is reserved!  Great, I thought, …

Twitter, nil point

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Well it took me 3 days to get annoyed by Twitters 140 character limit. The basic idea was to have a mechanism for entering shorter posts on my blog. But 140 characters is just too short, also it turns out I was completely over engineering a solution because I can just make shorter posts directly into facebook and just separate them out via categories like I’ve been doing for the longer entries. I’m still keeping twitter though because it is …