I've had the oddest problem for a long time, which is that I cannot seem to directly connect both my desktop machine and my Time Capsule to the ISP's router. So the Time Capsule is wired to the router and the computer is wifi to the Time Capsule.

Just cannot figure it out, and have given up trying.

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True

Ah! I knew about the 3-E but did not know it was a speciality of Microsoft

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There is an order to the universe.

I know, because on the very day that I finally knuckled down and wrote a pathetic little spreadsheet to do some bread calculations for me, the Gods of Serendipity put Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL [bofh.org.uk] in one of my RSS feeds, and my gob is smacked.

All of that zipped by way over my head.

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Agreed on both counts. Think of the friction around Podcasting in the early days. People who want to hear and be heard will find ways.

I’m agnostic on RSS versus JSON, but since I started trying to parse them, about 90 seconds ago, I can appreciate JSON’s strengths.

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I had a lovely BX. Not quite in the DS class, but pretty smooth all the same.

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Sounds things are improving greatly. I hope works and getting there turn out well.

Aren’t there special Japanese varieties of eggplant? Or is that only Thai?

Yup. Mostly the same as last years. I prefer mostly perennials so it is a question of tidying up, feeding and topping up the soil. Some replanting too.