Acemuzzy’s Positronic Blog

Right, well my photo program is pretty much finished now!  I’m not going to upload it quite yet, but I thought I’d at least point you at the photos which are now up.
So, HERE’S MY PHOTO ALBUM!
In terms of my wish list, it provides a slideshow & album view, as selected from a database, but [...]

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OK, in this post I challenged myself to write an album-producing GUI in C#.  This blog attempts to document my attempts to do so!
What I did!
C# stuff

Cranked up Visual Studio C# 2008, and sketch out some UI.
Discovered some (for me) new controls (including tabs, progress bars etc., and browsing to the desired directory.
Got it to [...]

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Day 22 (Monday 21 July) - Arequipa to Santiago
We were glad we’d booked the earlier flight, as we got bored pretty quickly in Arequipa.  It was a nice enough place, with great views of the nearby volcanoes, but it was too hot and we just weren’t loving it.
Eventually it was time for our flight, so we headed [...]

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Day 16 (Tuesday 15 July) - Cuzco
We had to move hotels to Niños, probably my favourite of the trip, but otherwise had an empty day.
We lazed around in the morning, hit the Inca museum and had a tasty calzone (though Liv wasn’t so hungry and didn’t eat anything).
Otherwise, nothing much to report.
Day 17 (Wednesday 16 July) - [...]

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Day 10 (Wednesday 9 July) - Lima to Cuzco
Just so we’re clear on what I mean by an early start, we had to be up at 4am for our flight to Cuzco.  A McDonald’s breakfast did little to settle my stomach, but at least the airport was marginally more modern than the ones before.
We met our Inca [...]

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Day 9 (Tuesday 8 July) - Quito to Lima
Guess what, another early start!  This was comically hampered by the fact my alarm clock was still on Galapagos time, so instead of waking up at 4.30 for our 5.00 cab, we woke up at at 5.05 when reception rang to say the cab was waiting!  Hasty packing was [...]

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Day 5 (Friday 4 July) - Galapagos, Isabela Island
The next day, our breakfast at the Wooden House was greeted by the confusing question ‘who’s good at horse riding’?  Nobody put there hands up, but our tour guide, Mariano, led us on underterred to the slopes of Isabela’s Sierra Negra, rumoured to be the world’s second largest volcanic crater.  [...]

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Day 4 (Thursday 3 July) - Quito to Galapagos
Our flight was fairly early, via Guayaquil.  Interestingly, this is actually Ecuador’s largest city despite nobody ever having heard of it!  We then stayed on the plane and landed in heavy sunshine in the galapagos!  Hurrah!
We knew we were meant to be meeting the ´survivors´of the boat [...]

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Day 3 (Quito)
Up reasonably early again and into the old town for breakfast (no more $5 rip-off at the hotel for us!).  I had my first genuine guanabana juice which was highly exciting.
We then wondered round the old town some more.  We thought we´d already seen all of it about five times, but managed to [...]

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Right, time for my first South American blog!
For anyone who doesn´t know, my girlfriend and I are travelling around South America for four weeks.  We left the UK early on Sunday morning (29th June) and fly back on Friday 25th July.  Our rough itinerary is Ecuador - Peru - Bolivia - Chile.
Day 0 (Sunday 29th June)
Up [...]

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