I don’t believe it I hope my guess diagnosis is right, but if you turn the main oven on it neither gets hot or increases the household electricity consumption. I’ve guessed at the element. It could be worse It at least had the decency to not wait till Christmas Day to do this or do […]
Author Archives: Mike
Network connected USB
Why So my car records the last 60 minutes from multiple cameras to a USB stick if you plug one in. I want to do something more long term like take a snapshot every 5 mins when driving. Sowhen COVID eventually goes away I can get a time lapse for each road trip I do. […]
Gout?
Oh f*%# Is how I can describe waking up on Thursday morning. If I touched my big toe on my right foot then I wanted to scream and I just couldn’t put a sock on and my toe wouldn’t move if I moved the others it was stuck frozen solid. So I went along to […]
Tough Mudder Clapham Common
Early get up First train on a Saturday to change at London Bridge for the Northern Line to Clapham South meant I couldn’t stay out too long on Friday. I also found it quite hard not to get off the tube at Clapham Common, but the maps all agreed that Clapham South was the right […]
Fireman Sam
So Sunday I had an interesting start to my day. I was helping at a local half marathon and walked to my marshalling spot getting there nice and early just in case. A lady nothing to do with the event came up to me in a major panic as she had locked her child in […]
Fame
It opened last night in the West End and there are a criminal number of empty seats at very good prices!
Geeky Sunday
So today I’ve written a plug-in for x-plane 11 and it lets me control my hue lights… This took far too long, but I’ve had to refresh my (human) memory on how to write code in C. I’ve learnt how to compile a dll to use libcurl as the hueapi is based round http requests […]
This train is formed of eight coaches
As I was late to bed last night I allowed myself the luxury of getting the 08:39 instead of my normal 07:36 train to work. I don’t understand people the announcement repeatedly says “this train is formed of eight coaches” yet a good number of them walk well past the “8 car stop” sign and […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Having seen this before when I was still at school it was great to see how they have taken the production into the modern world
Insect bites
I’m going to start this post with a only read on if you can cope with photos of insect bites on my foot warning.