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Monday exchanged the 12V psu after the 1st failed after a few hours - been ok since.
Tuesday ericsson announced that it was pulling development out of
ansty park, coventry, meaning I will be out of a job, some time
2010.
28+ years continuous now since I started in september 1981
Rest of the day off. Sandwich at morrisons, coffee and mince pie
at b+q.
Friday we went down the pub to eat. More wind and rain.
Saturday 3x round the village circuit in
the damp strong wind 23 mins 12.
Into town for lunch at browns, coffee and cake at the herbert
later.
Sunday 3x circuit it the damp wind, but in
bright sunshine 23 mins 01.
The forecast rain seemed to stay away for the afternoon.
A bit more garage tidying.
Cleaned the r6.
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bbc1/2/3/4 itv1/2/3/4 channel4 5 radio4
| later | bbc2 | tuesday friday |
22:00 23:35 |
music. |
| film 2009 | bbc1 | tuesday | 23:15 | cinema. |
| never mind the buzzcocks | bbc2 | wednesday sunday |
22:00 22:30 |
music quiz. |
| culture show | bbc2 | thursday tuesday |
19:00 23:20 |
art. |
| have I got news for you | bbc1 | friday | 21:00 | news quiz. |
| armstrong and miller | bbc1 | friday | 21:30 | comedy. |
| newsnight review | bbc2 | friday | 23:00 | art. |
| broadcasting house | radio4 | sunday | 09:00 | a wry look at the week's events. |
now showing cinema
| showcase | showcase cinema at coventry walsgrave triangle |
| odeon | odeon cinema at coventry city centre |
| arts centre | arts centre cinema at university of warwick (in coventry ?) |
| film 2008 | bbc.co.uk/films/comingsoon/diary.shtml uk release dates for films and more |
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empireonline.co.uk uk release dates for films and more |
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darkhorizons.com early info, trailers and pictures from upcoming films |
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sfx.co.uk anything even vaguely sci fi |
coming soon general
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lhc the large
hadron collider comes on line. Either the higgs boson is
found (my guess, probably not), or the standard model
is trashed. Or just maybe, it makes a mini black hole
that destroys the world. More delays takes it into 2009. 1st collisions maybe november 2009 |
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I will be out of a job. Some time april 2010 or later |
coming 1 day maybe
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elecricty monitor. Looking at the efergy2 which has usb upload. |
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recumbent bike. I
would quite like to try 1 of these.
Actually I have now tried some of the less sporty/extreme
versions. Even these were horribly unstable with the over
seat tiller steering, but it is quite a pleasant position
to cycle in. Still ridiculously expensive at £1k+, so
not any time soon. Looking at futurecycles.org, londonrecumbents.co.uk, bikefix and challenge. The fujin looks faourite at the moment. The new furai looks sensible, but has a large front wheel that is pushing the pedals high up. |
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netbook pc Not really sure what this would be useful for, but getting cheaper, a bit more portable than the laptop, and now fairly up to date with windows 7 |
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new pc The laptop does most things very well, but it is not a games machine - required for tomb raider. |
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spektrum dx7 2.4GHz Tx and Rx. Spread spectrum digital technology (at last) available for radio control. I was waiting to see others enter the market, but the 1st futaba offerings seem rather poor (eg display size, number of channels) compared to the market leader spektrum sets. And the retrofit modules seem to miss the point of pairing individual aircraft to Tx settings. |
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1 day there will be media machine
that can do all the freeview digital stuff, play dvds,
cds etc., has a hard disk, is networked, and is silent. In a sense they are here now in the form of a windows media pc, but they are fabulousy expensive, especially the "silent" versions, that use massive, heavy passive cooling heatsinks. The digifusion fvrt100 did a great job for many years but failed eventually. Replaced witha sagem dtr67320t. Probably need to replace again when freeview goes hd. |
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MW44 gas turbine
engine from wrenturbines.co.uk. 190000 rpm 460g weight, 3kg thrust, about
the size of a 330ml coke can (length 150mm, diam 75mm). Still expensive at £1470. Only available complete. This makes sensibly sized jet model aircraft feasible. Very tempted by 1 of these, but it has a long way to go up the list of priorities. The kolibri is even smaller |
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| "..." | quotes | a few cool quotes |
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