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Power outage

December 11th, 2007 Comments off

So it looks London is not as power perfect as I initially anticipated.

Today I had no electricity at my place for about 10 hours. The best part is that when I was coming back  home, I have asked one of the workers, when it may be fixed and he said that they still didn’t find were was the fault ! and this was 4 hours after they first noticed the fault.

9 years ago when I was studying to become Electrician, we had knowledge how to find fault on lines and some meters to that with a nice resolution. And look at London Energy they still don’t know how to find short lines after 9 years … maybe they can borrow some old meters from Poland and get decent polish power line engineers to operate them.

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Back from Madeira

December 2nd, 2007 1 comment

I’m back from week long vacation on Madeira Island.

I really enjoyed the stay on that rock in the Atlantic Ocean.

It has loads of hiking opportunities and amazing views ( if it is not cloudy or raining ). Driving there is an amazing experience which I really recommend if you like to sit behind the wheel.

Like a real island there are all(almost) weather conditions at once. On one side is bathed in nice sunshine, while the other one is all murky and cold.

For picture hungry people I’ve uploaded some. Madeira Album.

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