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Well, now I know all about geographic datums and projections, and what’s the difference between WGS84, EPSG:4326, EPSG:900913. The answer is that WGS 84 is a datum, EPSG:4326 is a projection which refers to WGS 84, no hang on that’s not right, it’s a datum, the same one WGS 84. Actually I’m not so sure about that. Anyway, EPSG:900913 is the new name for a spherical mercator projection. Or is it a datum, I’m not sure? The important thing is that it approximates the Earth as a sphere instead of an ellipsoid, and this makes some geographers really angry.

I finally got around to obtaining and listening to two albums by an obscure 70′s experimental rock group. The albums are supposedly among the greatest of all time. This group should not be confused with Pink Freud, a free jazz project who are in my opinion tak sobie.

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I recently played a CD which was scratched and skipping, making a tick tick tick sound out of tempo with the music. So I applied toothpaste to the affected area and it fixed the skipping.

Super.

While on bike tour, my mobile phone charger stopped working. This was because of the way I kept it with the wire wrapped around it. So I attacked it with a knife, made it good again, then taped it back together with gaffer.

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Two Sundays ago, Magda and I went to Wielka Parada Rowerowa (The Big Bike Parade), which was held as part of European Mobility Week in Wrocław.

The “happening” was basically a planned and legitimised version of Critical Mass. I’m not sure what the official goals were, but for me the action served as a reminder of how awful it is to cycle in Wrocław.