Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
One of life's reassuring constants has just quit on me: my bicycle dynamo. I bought it from a German website about 10 years ago after a German colleague told me such a thing existed. This was in the days before translation engines on the web, so I recall some trial ...
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Among other efforts to reduce our South West Water bills, we employ
If it's brown
flush it down.
If it's yellow
Let it mellow.
- which saves a lot of money, but the bathroom always smells of wee. Fortunately for us, we live in rainy Devon and there's a rainwater butt fed by the drainpipe ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1508" align="alignright" width="293"] With the sides knotted up during the day[/caption]
I'm not keen on central heating but I don't like feeling cold in bed. The house we're currently renting never seems to get very warm: turning up the heating seems only to increase the bills and the 'musty old ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1461" align="alignright" width="232"] Meccano metal robots 891400B[/caption]
Jess came back from a shopping trip today with a treat: a little toy robot construction kit. I think she's still a bit disturbed by how pleased I am with it. It's just a statue of a robot, but it's beautiful!
Mine doesn't look ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
We needed to send a couple of small documents by post and realised - while we are in the 'No Fixed Abode' phase of our Keep-It-Simple-Stupid plan to move back to the UK - that another thing we don't have in our luggage is a printer. We're currently using a ...
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