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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 […]

Electricity meter

January 9, 2007 - Computers , Home , Linux , Technology , Web - by admin - 1 Comment

A recent discussion on IRC has prompted this. At the least, it’s a shout out to Adam Sampson, who usefully provided all the info required in order to monitor your electricity usage by your home PC. I’ve been monitoring my electricity usage since the begininning of December, using the same […]

aKademy2007 CfP

January 5, 2007 - Events , Glasgow , KDE , Linux , Technology , Web - by admin - No Comments

It’s 2007, and the Call for Participation went out for aKademy2007. Now’s the time to get those talks, demos and presentations out and into the public eye.