Author Archives: Skippy

May
17
2012

Automatic Panoramic Head – Part 1: Press the button

by Skippy

According to Wikipedia: An intervalometer is a device which counts intervals of time. (Other names include interval meter and interval timer). Such devices commonly are used to signal, in accurate time intervals, the operation of some other device. For instance, an intervalometer might activate something every 30 seconds. In photography, intervalometers are used to trigger exposures. This is often done [...]

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May
17
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 2

by Skippy

Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283) with only 1 Gig of Ram  however I have bought 2 Gigs from Crucial with [...]

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Apr
25
2012

Book 4: Living Afloat

by Skippy

Peter Underwood’s (@Livingafloat) “Living Afloat” was a book that I picked up when it was free on Kindle; I follow Peter on Twitter where he is an active member of the #boatsthattweet group. The Kindle book seems to be unavailable; however you can still download the PDF files from Norbury Wharf Ltd’s Site here. This [...]

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Apr
20
2012

Solar Panels

by Skippy

A long while ago I met up with Amy, and James from nbLuckyDuck, and one of the things that was intresting is that for a large part of the year they are off-grid with using a 136W flexable solar panel so very rarely run the generator. there has been discussion about other cost breakdowns here, and a lively chat [...]

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Apr
19
2012

Dundas Basin Elsan Point

by Skippy

The Elsan disposal point at Dundas Basin on the Kennet & Avon Canal was taken out of service back in November 2011 and has remained broken since; British Waterways plan to have a temporary elsan point operational some time in April, with full repairs coming on-line in August this year. BW say the cost of this temporary disposal point at Dundas while it [...]

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Apr
18
2012

Why I fear Pro-Life

by Skippy

TRIGGER WARNING: This article or section, or pages it links to, contain information about abortion, sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors, also some of the language is a lot stronger than normally presented, Ergo NSFW. This Post has taken me a while to write, and I hope I do not present any false or [...]

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Apr
11
2012

Home Made Keyboards – Part 1: Project Overview

by Skippy

A while ago I cam across the Stenograph system, and thought about making myself a Steno Keyboard or something smiler, looking into I found this: There are two types of keyboard used in the UK for STTRs (Speech to Text Reporter), the Palantype system and the Stenograph system. Unlike a QWERTY keyboard, not every letter in a [...]

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Apr
10
2012

Return of the Marauder

by Skippy

My Suzuki Marauder has turned up;  it was stolen from Random Zero‘s way back in September of last year; Random Zero and I are waiting for the police to give us full details on the muppit who stole her, with a view to starting procedings against them, or (if they are a minor) their parents [...]

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