Computing
Digitising Old Photographs
The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]
Science
Engineering
Home Backup Systems, Part Three
Four months on So far I am very pleased with it. No alarms, no problems and good customer service from both sales and technical support. I’m not saying other vendors aren’t as good but Pecron [more…]
Hobbies
Playing With Electricity – Part 1
Sponsored Introduction – SPAD Report Sir Montague Snoddgrass KC the special advisor to the Prime Minister’s Secretary’s budgie, Fred, has replaced his cleaner with a newer model. The old one, Elsie Dustall sucked-up one of [more…]
Engineering
Home Backup Systems, Part Two
What You’ll Need A Home Backup System, in my case (AC300 + B300K) Solar panels 405w £50 each Solar cable, from Bluetti with connectors and 50m cable only from Electrical World Solar cable crimper Staubli [more…]
20th Century
Is there life on (somewhere other than) Mars?
Once upon a time we knew our place in the universe. The science was settled and the experts agreed. The Earth was at the centre of the universe and everything we could see in the [more…]
Engineering
Home Backup Systems, Part One
When I bought my first custom PC back in 1999, a Gateway machine with dual Pentiums (Only PC I ever had which actually did two things at once), one of the things missing living in [more…]
20th Century
Book Review: Concorde by Mike Bannister
Introduction In response to Swiss Bob’s lack of articles, I have dashed this out, instead of a fuller version I had planned. In short, I heartily recommend Mike Bannister’s book ‘Concorde’, which I listened to [more…]
20th Century
Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review
Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]
America
California’s Medi-Cal implosion Explained
California’s Democrat socialist democracy, thanks to our one-party supermajority, is a sterling example for our country. At least its chief architect, Gavin Newsom, hopes so for his 2028 ambitions. His chief entitlement used to attract [more…]