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news 2009.11.15 sunday

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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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now showing tv/radio

tvguide.co.uk

bbc.co.uk/iplayer

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 ?)

 

coming soon cinema

film 2008 bbc.co.uk/films/comingsoon/diary.shtml uk release dates for films and more
empireonline.co.uk uk release dates for films and more
darkhorizons.com early info, trailers and pictures from upcoming films
sfx.co.uk anything even vaguely sci fi

 

coming soon general

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

elecricty monitor. Looking at the efergy2 which has usb upload.
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.
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
new pc The laptop does most things very well, but it is not a games machine - required for tomb raider.
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.
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.
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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books books I am reading/have read
cd some of my CDs
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history a sort of cv, but may become more of an autobiography
  how to... how to set up a web site like this
links some places I have been
old news old weekly news items
  pictures  a few pictures collected together
  pond a watery pond.
  projects things I'm working on...NOT (because I have to keep going to work !)
"..." quotes a few cool quotes
  soft software from me
sounds sound files including music from me
  weather weather

 

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