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30 Jul 08 Crabs!

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I was walking down by the , in yesterday . While walking along a over a , movement below caught my eye. Looking down into the bank at , I saw thousands of these little .

It’s like there’s a whole community going on right under our , and most of us don’t even realize!

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29 Jul 08 Connection, Crabs, Chicken

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  1. Always a good moment when you connect , and the devices you are networking start talking to each other.
  2. Wlaking by the during my , and seeing thousands of little on the at . Amazing how there’s a network there right under our , that most of us aren’t even aware of.
  3. After a long day, washed down with a , was the at that moment in the day.

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16 May 08 World’s Longest Pier

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The Pier Why the of photographs from England? Well, quite simply I was going through all my photographs, and I found a few that I might be of interest to you, dear readers, who come from all over the world, in any case.

Also, I guess I wanted to show that the good ‘ole US of A doesn’t have the biggest of quite everything!

Southend Pier Lifeboat StationThere’s been a pier at Southend since 1830, when the local decided that one was needed as many boats bring Londoners down river couldn’t call there due to the , particularly at .

The original wooden pier was replaced by an in the 1870′s.

The pier has an interesting history, having suffered a number of major fires; a threat of in the 1980′s, and by the Royal Navy during World War 2. There is now an station at the pier head, which was built in 2000.

are currently promoting the pier as part of its drive, and for the time-being at least its future looks safe.

Oh, the length of the pier? It’s 1.341 miles long. For the metric heads, that’s 2,158 meters. It’s about a 25 minute walk.

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