Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Seven
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here Part Four is here Part Five is here Part Six is here This [more…]
Computing
Computing
Early Impressions of Artificial Intelligence
As a regular reader, you’ll know I’ve taken on a pupil, Mr AI Bot. A useful chap, undoubtedly artificial but every inch the novice when it comes to the realm of intelligence. The vacancy attracted [more…]
Computing
Cnutelectronics, Part Three
Welcome back to Cnutelectronics! It comprises the same bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm, poor research, pointy metal things as Cnuteneering and also adds the additional danger of very hot soldering irons. If you missed them here [more…]
Computing
Cnutelectronics, Part Two
Welcome back to Cnutelectronics! It comprises the same bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm, poor research, pointy metal things as Cnuteneering and also adds the additional danger of very hot soldering irons. We left the last episode [more…]
Computing
Cnutelectronics, Part One
Cnutelectronics [ ca-noot-elec-tronicks ] noun The art or science of making practical application of the lack of knowledge of pure sciences, such as electrical engineering, as in the construction of useful circuits without suffering any [more…]
America
Letter From Stafford, Three
I don’t get out as much any more now that I’ve learned to do my work online. Slouching behind a steering wheel 200 miles a day has been replaced by slouching at a screen waiting [more…]
Animals
Automations in my Home: Conclusion
Welcome back to Cnutelectronics! It comprises the same bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm, poor research, pointy metal things as Cnuteneering, and also adds the additional danger of very hot soldering irons. We left this project with [more…]
Computing
Automations In My Home* Part II
* And outside. Home automation seems all the rage in puffinland with various articles describing the setting up, care and feeding of home automations. We’ve had Automations in my home and Smart Radiators, and I [more…]
Computing
How MRI Works
I guess quite a few of you will have had to undergo a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan over the past few years. As you lie in the machine’s tube with headphones on to muffle the [more…]