A Lovely 10C Site!

@joanna The best answer is to visit this website. http://www.steamrail.com.au/
I love old machinery, especially steam stuff. There are at least three volunteer groups in or around this city dedicated to maintaining & rebuilding old trains, etc.

There are narrow gauge railways and broad gauge ones, all operating on former government-run lines that have been closed due to alleged inefficiency.

One of those two locos seen on the Snow Train was last used as little as 15 years ago by a company that was contracted to supply passenger services to a big regional city in the west of the state. They leased two of those locos & re-converted them to run on oil (in the 1950s they were original converted for that fuel). They were able to maintain the same schedule as the diesel service they had replaced.
Declining patronage closed the line again & SteamRail reclaimed their lococs & reconfigured them once again for coal.

@streakmachine Try this thing, you can import Sudoku puzzles directly from graphics images, amongst other things. http://d.pr/f/26yGYz

And cheat by getting the app to solve it for you.

@joanna There's another I posted 5 hours ago, did you see that one? The original was a 4k video, done with the Lumia 1520, it was 443 MB, the Hyperlapse version is "just" 80 MB & irons out the twitches.

Annoyed. The non-official Flickr app that works on W10 mobile has been killed off for WP 8.1 so I can't put it onto the Lumia 1520.

Another Flickr steam train video, this time done with the Lumia 1020 camera. https://flic.kr/p/Wmj11N

Used Microsoft Hyperlapse Mobile app on the Lumia 1520 (available on Android, W10M & WP 8.1) to enhance an existing video that was 443 MB and rather shaky. The Hyperlapse version has removed the shake & shrunk the video down to 80 MB, now uploaded to Flickr. See https://flic.kr/p/XmNbQN. I overcompensated with the exposure on the day, however.

As usual. Nothing worth watching on TV. Cup of tea then bedtime. With a good book.

New Zealand's greatest export: Whittaker's Peanut Slab. A small chocolate bar filled with whole peanuts. Just enough chocolate to hold the nuts together. Magnificent!

Scary photo

The new iMac will have four USB 3·0 ports & two Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports. I plan to connect three external HDs, (clone, Time Machine & general storage) plus a USB scanner, USB laser printer (although that can use Ethernet) and a USB external 2.1 channel sound card/speaker system. Only one HD will use the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 connection via Thunderbolt 2 & FireWire 800 adaptors.

I've bought a clamp-on unpowered 4-port USB 3·0 hub that uses one rear USB port to direct four USB 3·0 ports to the front of the Mac & the Logitech 2.1 channel speaker incorporates a powered USB 2·0 hub, so I'll have no trouble with needing additional USB ports.