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Getting to Zambia

My sis­ter is get­ting mar­ried in Lusaka in Zam­bia. Below is a quick list of air­lines and how you can get to Zam­bia from Europe and the Mid­dle East.
FLIGHTS
Fly­ing to Lusaka Air­port (IATA Air­port code: LUN)
Direct flights from Europe:
British Air­ways from Lon­don Heathrow (LHR). Every Wednes­day, Fri­day, Sun­day.
A com­pre­hen­sive list is on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusaka_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations
Indi­rect flights:
Your options are gen­er­ally connecting […]

Using SRT subtitle files on Popcorn hour

I was hav­ing lit­tle trou­ble get­ting .SRT file work­ing on Pop corn hour A-110. After some googling, I came across this page: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1060708
To enable SRT files sup­port you need the fol­low­ing steps.
1. Make sure the SRT file­name and the video name match (Except for the exten­sions obvi­ously)
2. Make sure they are in the same direc­tory
3. (OPTIONAL […]

The 8 Bit Trip (AMAZING!)

Excel­lent video!

Clearing Exim mail queue from all emails

Here is a lit­tle com­mand, if you have loads of emails stuck in exim queue and you want to delete ALL the emails, here is a lit­tle com­mand to do that

mailq |awk ‘{print “exim –Mrm ” $3}‘|sh
Be care­ful when using it, like I said, it will delete all emails wait­ing to be deliv­ered by exim.
I used it […]

True courage

What is the mean­ing of courage?

Is it to fight a bull in a bull­fight?
Is it to drive a for­mula 1 car?
Is it to fly a fighter in com­bat?
Is it to prac­tice free falling para­chut­ing?
Is it bungee jump­ing, wild water raft­ing?
Is it to gam­ble your salary on a coin toss?
Is it to insult the door­man in […]

Beer! It’s the law!

The real Beer-Lambert Law
From http://students.info.uaic.ro/~andrei.luca/blog/

Sir, can you step out of the car please.

Some­thing dif­fer­ent hap­pened to me on Fri­day.
Hav­ing just arrived at home from work, I was still sit­ting in the car, wait­ing for the song on the radio to fin­ish and to make good use of the time I was col­lect­ing the park­ing receipts and other bits of paper scat­tered around the car.
As I was ready to […]

Starbucks

“Going to Star­bucks for cof­fee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough”
– Adam Hills

Prince 2

I’ve just received great news, I have passed my Prince 2 Prac­ti­tioner course. I am now a
Cer­ti­fied Prince 2 (2009 Edi­tion) Voodoo Spe­cial­ist!
Woot!

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I am going to start using Euronews no com­ment style posts here
Here is the first one
(From a friend of mine in Bel­gium)
“Yes, she was driving”