So on Saturday morning Ben, Dave, Robin and I all drove towards Vegas in separate cars. On the way there we met up with Andy and George. Sadly Andy & George were sharing a car, a concept that I just couldn’t get on with. A front wheel drive car at that. The drive to Vegas […] Read more »
Since my own wedding last August, the next great event on the horizon has been Robin’s wedding in California. We flew out without a problem from Heathrow’s terminal 5, and landed in LAX around 4pm on a sunny Thursday afternoon. The first job was to collect our cars. We all know that there aren’t any […] Read more »
Today marks the end of a rather crazy wedding holiday season for me, so here is some long overdue retro-blogging fuelled by jet lag. Our company’s founder, Matt McNeill, was married at the end of March. Sadly this clashed with Robin’s wedding, but I was able to attend the stag weekend, which took place in […] Read more »
We’ve got a 40″ LCD TV made by Humax. We paid about ยฃ500 for it in early 2007, and up until recently I’ve been really very pleased with it. My mind has been changed because the remote control was becoming less and less responsive, and now it does nothing at all. I had dismissed issues […] Read more »
Apologies to the petrolheads out there for whom this will be gobbledegook, but I’ll try to make this comprehensible as I hope it will help others travelling the ‘net. My home server appeared to break itself while I was away this weekend. That may seem like an outrageous claim, but really – it was fine, […] Read more »
I have just been sent some snail mail by BMW Vines group. One of the highlights of their feature appears to be “The new 116d – the most efficient BMW yet”. As you can imagine, I am beside myself with excitement and will trade the M5 for one first thing in the morning.
Diane and I took the M5 to Exeter yesterday to visit some friends. This afternoon, I decided to nip across to Dartmoor so I could photograph the M5 in a favourite spot. ‘Dup’ in 2005. Wol in 2007. Sadly I can’t find the photo of ‘rul’ there, but here’s the M5 surveying Dartmoor as its […] Read more »
Robin (of E30 and M5 maintenance fame) has today emigrated to the USA. If you’d like to see what he gets up to, you can follow him on twitter or read his blog.
The tractor is now half way through its 13,500 mile service interval. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t believe that oil can maintain useful levels of lubrication if left in an engine for that kind of period. I’m also extremely aware that the turbocharger shares the same oil supply. As such, I change oil twice […] Read more »
As I’ve mentioned before, I run a home server here. It has three main roles: 1) Redundant media store for music, video, and photos 2) Web server for Diane’s website development 3) Media sharing (playback) on the lounge TV I’ve decided to go with a Linux solution, partially because I’m familiar with the OS professionally, […] Read more »