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\nClass War block Tower Bridge<\/a> – and the banner than police threatened arrest over the following week<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

I had\u00a0 late night last night and finished uploading images and text to My London Diary<\/em> for February 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m still catching up after several weeks of computer problems, and my heart sank yesterday morning when my desktop seemed to be refusing to start up. The initial checks before Windows start to load normally only take a few seconds, but yesterday it was over 5 minutes. I went away, did something else and came back to find that eventually it loaded.<\/p>\n

So I took a little look at the Windows log files etc, ran the troubleshooters and there wasn’t anything that told me I had a particular problem (or at least not anything I didn’t know about and have been living with for ages.)\u00a0 Later I found from Skype that my microphone wasn’t working and that told me I had no sound card. Well I knew that – its on the motherboard! But other than that everything seemed to be working OK.\u00a0 But I decided that while I had the computer on and working I’d get February completed in case it wouldn’t start up again – and around 15 hours later I had, although perhaps given more time I would have written more about some of the events.<\/p>\n

I also did something I’ve been meaning to do for some time, and blew the dust out of the computer. My previous machine died after it had collected so much dust inside that one of the fans stopped working, and it overheated. I’ve been meaning to open the box and give this machine a spring clean ever since, and today’s problem prompted me to do so. It was pretty dusty.<\/p>\n

Today, to my relief, the computer started up more or less normally. The microphone still wasn’t working, so I removed and replaced the USB wireless link for my microphone, then pressed the ID button to link it up, and that’s now fine too. But much as I like the advantages of digital photography and computer processing and the web, I still feel uneasy about having to rely so profoundly on sometimes temperamental systems that none of us truly understands.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here is February:<\/p>\n

My London Diary<\/h2>\n

Feb 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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\nJudging the cake competition<\/small>
\nGrow Heathrow’s 5th Birthday<\/a>
\nPeople’s Republic Of Aldgate Free Speech Fight<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nLambeth against \u00a390m cuts<\/a>
\nRMT protest Underground Job Cuts<\/a>
\nWelfare Advocacy not a Crime<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nStriking Firefighters block traffic<\/a>
\nFree Shaker Aamer at Parliament<\/a>
\nBracknell Forest<\/a>
\nTake Back Our World – Global Justice Now<\/a>
\nShoreditch & Brick Lane<\/a>
\nPoor Doors to Rich Gardens<\/a>
\nEnd Isolation Torture for Kevan<\/a>
\nDeport Altaf Hussain<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nLet Greece Breathe!<\/a>
\nOccupy Democracy return<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nVenus CuMara Reclaim Love 13 at Eros<\/a>
\nValentine Day – 13 years for Shaker Aamer<\/a>
\n‘BadBoy Borises’ in Global Divestment Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPoor Doors Truce Over – It’s War!<\/a>
\nMuslim Lives Matter – BBC protest<\/a>
\nAylesbury rubble to Southwark Council<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSurround Harmondsworth 6<\/a>
\nBurberry Cleaners Strike<\/a>
\nSanctions protest at Croydon Job Centre<\/a>
\nGetting By – Lisa’s Book Launch<\/a>
\nAylesbury Estate Occupation<\/a>
\nAround the Elephant<\/a>
\nNo Privatisation At National Gallery<\/a>
\nClose Guantanamo – 8 Years of protest<\/a>
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