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Ridey.net’s ongoing technical problems are (hopefully) solved. After having, over the past seven days, reinstalled the operating system, then reinstalled it again after rebuilding the iMac hard drive with Disk Warrior, I was still getting strange behaviour. I thought it might be a problem with additional RAM I added about a year ago. But I [...]

Phew! Today in Gravesend, Kent, it hit 101 (38.1C), the highest temperature ever recorded in Britain. Here in Reigate it only got up to about 99 (37.1C). It’s still 83 at 9.30pm (with 48% humidity). This heatwave is in its second week and still not a thunderstorm in sight.

It’s hot here in Blighty. And believe me, Blighty just doesn’t do hot.