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HMS Dauntless

January 24, 2007 - Boat , Events - by admin - No Comments

Yesterday I took the afternoon off and went to watch the launch of the HMS Dauntless. Anne had gotten us some tickets, and my dad came along as well. The last time I saw a boat being launched I must’ve been about 7 years old. I barely remember it, other […]

Why I Like Linux

January 23, 2007 - Computers , Linux - by admin - 3 Comments

I wrote this as a response to a BBC request for 100 words about why you are faithful to Windows, Linux or OSX. Admittedly it’s 169 words, but I sent it anyway and I’ve put it up here for posterity too…

Criminals! Everywhere!

January 22, 2007 - Friends , Things that annoy Kyle , United Kingdom - by admin - 2 Comments

PTPM has an amusing followup to the news of a rambler getting hunted down by the police over a period of three months in order to give him an official warning about wild berry picking. How much more time and money will the police waste on stupid reports such as […]

Pager data

January 14, 2007 - Cool things , Radio , Web - by admin - No Comments

A week ago, Malcolm was around and I was cooing over his handheld scanner, a nice Alinco DJ-X3. Whilst messing about listening to the local ATC and the like, we happened upon 137.975MHz and wondered “wtf is that?”. A little bit of digging reveals that it’s one of the pager […]

R/C Helicopters

January 14, 2007 - Aeroplanes , Computers , Cool things , Modelling , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

Following my recent attempts at maintaining stable flight with my wee remote controlled helicopter, it occurred to me that it would be significantly easier for a computer to fly it than a human A few minutes on Google returned the ChRoMicro – Cheap Robotic Microhelicopter HOWTO. A great site with […]