Edible flowers

A beautiful anniversary gift, and also very tasty. Many thanks!
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Woman ‘detained’ for filming police search launches high court challenge

Supervising police is one of our most important civic duties. They are (mostly) trustworthy, and we need to keep it that way.
It becomes important to maintain and exercise public rights. Otherwise the idea may take hold that for example “it’s illegal to photograph British police“. That is only true in very limited circumstances of [...]

A warm day in Dallas

We heard there was a heatwave in England today with temperatures over 30C (86F) so I had to post this.

Dallas Iran solidarity event

A few hundred people outside the Dallas Federal Courthouse standing with signs and morphing into a candlelit vigil as the sun went down.
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Mobile YouTube on N95 phone

Handling message “could not connect to video streaming server” trying to use the YouTube application on my Nokia N95 phone.

Tulips in the sun

I bought flowers yesterday, and they opened up in the sun this morning. Beautiful!

How to keep a hotel humid

Have a huge water feature in the atrium.

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Now illegal to photograph British police

Anybody who thinks there’s no need to video-record police might want to look at the Huffington Post’s Top 5 Police Brutality Videos or remember this incident. For more examples, there’s always Google.
The Guardian says the new law will not help in calling the police to account.
Maybe the lawmakers felt that incidents such as the one [...]

Use of mobile crane

Slideshow illustrates use of a mobile crane to remove an empty portable storage container.

A Chicago building in the late afternoon sun

The bad news: a two hour ‘air traffic delay’. The good news: getting to see this ruli building captured from O’Hare while waiting to take off.