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Mayday Mayday

I remember my father saying that his medivac took some setting up and that it didn't like the wind.  Mindful of those wise words  I spent the first battery charge in the garage getting it all trimmed up. Lots of scooting around on the floor finally managing to get it to stop pulling left and almost hovering before the batteries gave up. Happy that the basics ...

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Moving House

The downgrade from fully detached to semi detached is underway. House 2.0 is now up and running. Larger front door, comfy bedding, new driveway and all fully secured to the side of the main house. I guess it might be my pommy-ness that makes our local ring-tailed possums such a joy to watch. Most Australians seem to see them as vermin but unlike the brush tailed, ...

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Helicopters

When I was a kid my dad was into radio-controlled stuff. At the weekend he would load up the Ford Corsair and we would head the few miles to a field next to the river where we would lug the plane and his specially constructed r/c toolbox that held all the various tools, transmitter, fuel, starter motor etc required to get the machine going. He started with a glider ...

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User Stories Applied

I've only scanned a small amount of User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn but I like some bits of this book. You want to keep the user interface out of your stories for as long as possible Stories are about requirements, talk implementation later. Don't number story cards Hopefully that'll mean you won't use Jira The main purpose of the card is ...

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