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Pangasius catfish for sale in Tescos!

Friday, April 10th, 2009
Juvenile Pangasius Sanitwongsei

Juvenile Pangasius Sanitwongsei

I learnt today, that Tescos, Sainsbury’s and ADSA in the United Kingdom are selling a cheap white fish at the fishmongers counter which are usually available live from the local tropical fish shop. Very small or very large unwanted specimens of the Pangasius catfish are usually seen in local tropical fish shops.

Pangasius Catfish

Pangasius Catfish

This has causes some controversy in the aquatics industry, as whether these fish should be sold in the United Kingdom, because most fishkeepers, do not have the facilities to keep these catifsh, that grow very large in captivity. (3 feet)

It’s sold as Pangasius, Vietnamese River Cobbler, White Catfish, Gray Sole, I know it as the Pangasius catfish (which there are a few species) or Paroon/Iridescent shark

I’ve seen very large wild specimens in China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnamin in the rivers. I must dig out some video footage, I recorded in Bangkok, in the canals, of these very large fish.

Interesting article here

A nine foot one was described here in PFK in 2005.

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it’s all gone wrong!

Friday, April 10th, 2009

my new blog is crapping out, one of my TiVos crashed for the first time every – it had hung – first time in 10 years – and my computer at home is playing up, I’ve got to post this from my games rig (oh yes, I have a seperate computer to play games from!)

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i’ll leave to soak test for a week

Friday, April 10th, 2009

i’m going to leave the blog alone for 7 days, and just post, and see how it goes. let me know if it fails!

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still not happy with performance!

Friday, April 10th, 2009

i think it could be the hosts server php or mysql database, that’s the issue.

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Test Sending an e-mail to my blog

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Just testing to see if I can send an e-mail to my blog and it will post it!

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Red Dwarf Back on UK Television 10th April 9pm

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Red Dwarf Back to Earth

Red Dwarf Back to Earth

Back To Earth – Part One
Friday, April 10th, 9pm, Freeview Channel Dave
Nine years later the Red Dwarf crew are older but still none the wiser. Lister’s busy day of annoying Rimmer is interrupted by the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship’s mile-deep water tank.

Back To Earth – Part Two
Saturday, April 11th, 9pm, Freeview Channel Dave
Rimmer’s replacement, Katerina (Sophie Winkleman), is determined to guide Lister back to his home planet. But Earth in 2009 is not everything the boys had expected, and Rimmer has no intention of being replaced.

Back To Earth – Part Three
Sunday, April 12th, 9pm, Freeview Channel Dave
Knowing they are destined to die, the Dwarfers head to a mysterious address in London to plead for more life.

Now that’s what I call a Good Friday!

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Automatically Update Twitter

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

just integrated the new blog software to automatically update twitter. I just need to workout the mysql error, to complete the conversion!

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Example Electricity Energy Usage Graphs

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Here are some examples of the custom graphs which can be generated with Powometer Software connected to Wattson manufactured by DIY Kyoto


click the thumbnails to zoom the image

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Real-time energy widget

Monday, April 6th, 2009

okay, i’ve added the real-time energy widget to the sidebar from myenergyusage.org

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i broke it!

Monday, April 6th, 2009

okay, I’ll come clean, I broke it. In messing with the mysql tables, I must have removed the Page, that is used to display the “posts”. It took me a while to find the issue this evening. I thought it was performance related, and was going to pull wordpress, I only want to upgrade, because I thought it may be quicker, than the older blog software. I’ll carry on testing, but still have issues converting and importing the old data. I may have to export the data, hand convert on a wintel platform, convert all the data, because I think what I’m trying to do, is beyond the access controls I have over the hosted mysql database.

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