February 2010
1 post
1 tag
Kitchens of Distinction
We’ve finally exchanged contracts on the house and we’re having to make grown-up decisions like “what kind of kitchen extension do we want?”
I got Google Sketchup out and watched a shedload of tutorials. I still didn’t really understand it until I’d built our new house several times, each time somehow misaligning the walls by 1 pixel or filling in the entire...
January 2010
1 post
WatchSome photos of our wonderful Mia. There’s a massive gap where she once was.
December 2009
2 posts
October 2009
1 post
Bracknell
Bracknell Forest of toy houses, sticky notes, sticky traffic, hub & spoke, stop, start. Heart of concrete, high-tech solutions for everything but pleasure, and a gap where the weather used to come from.
September 2009
1 post
June 2009
1 post
Playmobil Security Checkpoint →
Halt! Ihre Papiere bitte.
I suggest reading the reviews also.
May 2009
2 posts
The Kessel Run, West Virginia →
I had no idea the Kessel Run was in West Virginia. Looks about 6 parsecs to me.
April 2009
1 post
March 2009
1 post
WWF Earth Hour, Sat 28th Mar 2009, 8:30pm
On Saturday 28th March 2009, at 8:30pm you can make a statement about the urgent need to do something about climate change.
For one hour turn off the lights. See how much of the planet we can plunge into terrifying darkness. If you’re not sure what to do with this hour of darkness, here are some suggestions:
Light some candles
Have a seance
Have a candle-lit dinner party...
February 2009
2 posts
Weasel Shit For Fun & Profit
My new Current Cost meter arrived today. The CC128 is much the same as the original Current Cost meter, but slightly better looking. Under the facelift it offers the chance to monitor several sensors around the home which has possibilities for things like water usage and smart thermostats, but today I’ve been fascinated with the developments of the Current Cost crowd and the National...
December 2008
1 post
Sloe Win!
Well, we cracked open the sloe gin and decanted it into pretentious little bottles for xmas gifts. Very pleased with the result, which is quite surprising after less than two months in the kilner jar. Went very nicely with a Badger Industries mince pie, I think you ought to know.
Next year we go into full production.
October 2008
10 posts
Sloe Gin for teh Win!
Several years ago I read a very good book by Ian Marchant called “The Longest Crawl”. One the stops in it that caught my attention was the Plymouth Gin distillery and on a visit in 2006 I got my first taste of sloe gin on their excellent tour. I was a convert on the spot. Winter warmers don’t come much better than this. Sadly, the only sloe gin generally available in UK shops...
How I Beat the Credit Crunch with...
In another edition of what appears to be a series of money saving tips from Badger Towers, I decided to give some love to SaveMyPrinter.co.uk for saving me money.
I have an HP Laserjet 1100 which sits on my desk doing very little to justify its existence, occasionally printing a boarding pass or a coupon because it can’t cope with a big job any more. I used to have an HP Laserjet 5L which...
Badgerpower
Not long ago I bought a Current Cost smart electricity meter from Southern Electric’s eco gadget shop. It works by induction, clipping around the mains cable by your real meter and then wirelessly transmitting the reading every few seconds to an LCD display.
When I first plugged it in I got the urge to turn things on and off to watch how much electricity they were using. The house in...
YouTractor.com - Welcome →
100% Tractor Videos.
“If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago they would now...”
– Google Finance: HBOS plc
Rissingtons
On Friday I had a rather pleasant visit to the folks at Rissington (Jon Hicks, John Oxton, Jon P Dennis and Simon Clayson), which was only slightly marred by the failburger four of us had at The Eagle & Child (Stow-on-the-Wold), and the pint of rancid Hooky.
This is what the outing looked like, once we’d avoided the biblical traffic queue into the town by taking a 10 mile Oxton...
September 2008
1 post
Large Hardon Collider Day
It was Large Hardon collider day all day yesterday. I’m wishing the site http://largehardoncollider.com/ was funnier, but unfortunately the comedy comes in italics for the hard of understanding.
Also, talking of momentous announcements, there’s a lot of iTunes 8 today. iTunes 8 is still rubbish at almost everything, but now it has a “we’ve heard that something has a...
July 2008
5 posts
Charlie Brooker's CCTV Bumhole →
“This place is a joke. Each day I move around carrying a mobile phone (traceable) and an Oyster card (trackable), monitored, on average, by 10 times as many CCTV cameras as there are in the Big Brother house. Wherever I go, a gigantic compound eye peers at the back of my neck. I’m another bustling dot in the ant farm.”
The Birth of the Pipe Network →
This is how your internets get born.
May 2008
12 posts
Lifestyle help
from: Clara Hoskins reply-to: extensive@fountainsplusmore.com to: xxxxcrouchingbadger.com date: 22 May 2008 18:34 subject: best your life is crap
Spam seems to be getting more personal these days
Human API Negotiation
I was working on the start of a data reconciliation problem yesterday, wandering around the office talking to various people who know the data and where it comes from, how up-to-date it is and who updates it.
Whilst my colleagues were talking I had an out-of-office experience and watched while they negotiated an agreement about the edges of the problem. As they were disussing the interfaces...
Bukkake Fortress
S: the big re-install of May 2008 = 100% WIN. A cavernous stadium of emptyness waiting to be filled with the roar of bukkake.
Ben: Bukkake Fortress FTW!
Where 2.0 Business Strategy
1) Collect/Generate/Crowdsource a store of geodata
2) Publish it on the web using standard interfaces such as GeoRSS, KML, WMS, Shapefile
3) ???????
4) Profit
Casemod a Beaver →
How to make a PC out of a beaver in 29 easy steps.
I Love Horses - best of all the animals.
Pointles Power Connectors →
It seems the entire world stocks power adapters for IDE motherboards powering SATA drives, but nobody sells SATA power connectors that turn it into IDE. This is a load of rubbish as my motherboard has an IDE data connector, but no way of powering an IDE drive. What a bloody stupid idea.
April 2008
3 posts
Guitar Hero
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Is it wrong that I fancy this bird?
Too Busy To Make a Blog
Tried to do this instead.
So much going on at the moment, and the badgermedia server has died so this tumblog thingie will do for the now.