It's been quite comfortably warm in direct sunlight today. Excellent. I was also woken by an exploding website early enough to get out an enjoy it properly ( Read more... )

AVR board turned up last week. PCB-jumper connectors and breadboard today ( Read more... )

As you might imagine, I manage to use my Amazon wishlist in a manner which causes confusion and unexpected results ( Read more... )

Team News International, Wapping Sky are going to have a jolly time with French bureaucracy next season.

( Boggler! )

Bother. The ATM nailed to the side of the Tesco metro had a mechanical and failed its attempt to sick up my card. After three tries, accompanied by increasingly distressed peeping and me attacking it with a sharp knife (we'll gash the caul, etc), it gave up ( Read more... )

All mithering and no sun makes John a dull boy. All mithering and no sun makes John a dull boy. All mithering and no sun makes John a dull boy. All mithering and no sun makes John a dull boy. All mithering and no sun makes John a dull boy. All mithering and no sun makes John a dull boy. All mithering and no sun makes John a dull boy. All mithering ( Read more... )

( Uninteresting pictures of dismal places )

... Which leads a chap to wonder why such images appeal so.

Reading about this in one or other of the original set of Eagle Annuals, which contained pictures of this splendid device, obviously leads to mental images of yon Tucker 743 hauling a motley shed-collection hover platform across a Trackless and Alien Expanse.

We also find this, which is ( Read more... )

Nice to see King are still in work.