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Cheap Counter for machinery
A friend of mine has been looking for a cheap counter to use in his factory for counting production from machines. He currently uses some of the mechanical counters but these are starting to fail. Electronic counters cost…
Read More »Comments now require a CAPTCHA to be completed
I’ve been getting around 200 spam comments a day on this site and had to manually sort through them to find the non spam comments. This morning I was finally fed up with comment spam on this site…
Read More »More debris on it's way to the space station
While the shuttle is on it’s way to the station, more debris is inbound. NASA are deciding what to do. They may boost the station up a bit which will mean that the shuttle will get there a…
Read More »New Zealand Scanner Frequencies
Yes, I still have New Zealand scanner frequencies on my website. Look down the right hand side, they’re still there. The link is /scannerfreq/.
Read More »Happy Birthday Opportunity
Following on from my earlier post. The Mars rover Opportunity has now been successfully on the martian surface for 5 years. I have information on the Spirit rover on my earlier post (link at top of this one)….
Read More »Happy Birthday Apple Macintosh
The Apple Macintosh was introduced on the 24th January 1984. Image source: Wikipedia. Happy 25th birthday, you’ve come a long way.
Read More »I'm Back!
Sorry about the delays between posts but I’ve been on holiday. I got back from two weeks in sunny New Zealand today so should be posting regularly within a couple of days.
Read More »Happy New (long) Year
It’s now 2009. Leap days aside, did you notice that 2008 was a little longer than usual? It was a second longer. Midnight on New Years eve (in UTC) went something like 23:59:58, 23:59:59, 23:59:60, 00:00:00, 00:00:01 The…
Read More »Merry Christmas
Christmas day has at least started for the entire planet. Mery christmas and I hope Santa brought everything you wanted. If you find yourself bored at anytime over the next few days, feel free to make yourself a…
Read More »4000 x 3000 = 12.1 Million?
I used to own a nice compact Canon Ixus 900Ti camera – It was a lovely little camera but unfortunately didn’t come out too well in a match against a concrete floor. I decided to replace it with…
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