Month: May 2009

  • Tesco FAIL

    Last night I was refused the purchase of alcohol by my local Tesco store. As far as I can recall this is the first time I’ve every been refused an alcohol purchase. The reason for refusal has annoyed me to a considerable extent, because of the implications, and the general absurdity of the ‘rules’ being…

  • With Frickin’ Lasers…Part 3

    And so it is done. After a little over 2 years of talking about it, and figuring out whether I really wanted to spend the money etc., etc. I have finally had my vision corrected…with frickin’ lasers! As I type this, it is 2 days since I had the treatment.

  • One year of blogging

    As I noted in my inaugural post, it was my intention to keep this as something like a public diary. Pretty much everything I write about is for my own benefit. And now that I look back upon a year of posting, at a rate of just over 1 per week, I am glad I…

  • Captured ring rattle

    At the time I made the bottle stopper I made the captured ring using just a basic skew chisel and spindle gouge. And then I made a tool of my own to try to make it easier in the future. I took a long masonry nail and used the bench grinder to shape the head…

  • Riding with the n810

    I mentioned previously that I was learning to ride a bike, trying to get to a standard good enough to ride on roads. Well I think I’m there, and yesterday I made the journey to work and back. On the way back I decided to run maemo mapper on my n810. And have it store…

  • Learning to ride a bike.

    It’s true what they say, that once you’ve learned how to ride a bike you never forget. Unfortunately whilst I learned how to ride as a kid, I pretty much stopped at the point that I could go forwards and not fall off.