Back when I got tired of people stealing my work mapping the Canals and Waterways of the UK (and got utterly pissed off with the changes to Google Maps that madeit unworkable), someone took a copy and put it on Github.
Star Bores
Back in 1984 I start writing a parody computer games based on Star Wars using The Quill adventure writing software on the ZX Spectrum.
SpecDaleks
The year was 1996. I was a humble software technician at a newly Universitified Polytechnic in Staffordshire. Basically that meant that I reinstalled software every time the students mucked it up, which was daily.
Shedonism
There is nothing more essential to the British way of life, than a man’s right to tinker in his shed.
nanoVNA Calibration and SWR-ing
The nanoVNA is a bit of cheap kit that anyone with an interest in radio should own. I got mine from Amazon for £44.98.
Peter Kay Cursed Them All
Peter Kay, that jovial, nice, chubby northern chap has a lot to answer for.
While Half Man Half Biscuit have been quietly presaging the deaths of the Great and Good for decades, Peter went ahead and caused devastation amongst the celebrity community with just two videos.
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Four books (and a Training Course) that anyone starting in Amateur Radio in the UK needs to buy
If you are going to be starting down the long and rocky road to becoming ans Amateur Radio Operator in the UK, then really you need to buy some books.
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Floureon M-880
Back in May this year, 6 weeks into the First Lockdown, having no prospects of getting to go anywhere to test them properly, I bought myself a pair of Floureon M-880 PMR446 Walkie Talkies.
Midland 98 Plus
Earlier this year, before the country went insane again, we managed to have a holiday in Southport. I love Southport. It has just enough junk shops to keep me happy, but not so many that I get Junk Shop Fatigue. Anyway, I was enticed into one by an old GPO telephone in the window, but ended up buying this instead:
Behold, the Midland 98 Plus.
Simple ISP connection monitoring
Recently I got utterly titsed off with my ISP denying that there was a problem with my connection. At certain times every day, my connection would drop, I would ring them up, and they would claim there wasn’t a fault.
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