Starstruck

A while back I upgraded the firmware on my Linksys WRT54G router to 4.30.5 and one of the wireless connections stopped working. I’m running a MIXED system—that is, a system with both 802.11b and 802.11g devices—and all the high speed devices worked just fine, but an old iBook with 802.11b (Airport, rather than Airport Extreme) [...]

We looked for a Le Corbusier Chaise Lounge again on Sunday, and ultimately found one locally. It wasn’t that they weren’t available, but no-one seemed to have Black, let alone any other colour but White, in stock. So, having run around town to find one we plonked down our credit card and bought what appeared [...]

I was rather lazy most of today – I only got around to trying a new set up for the PST around sunset—just a tad late. In my defence, I did go madly about town in the afternoon to look for a Le Corbusier chaise lounge (in vain, I might add), but in all honesty [...]

I picked up a Coronado PST today. I stuck it onto a photographic tripod and dashed out into the back yard, but was immediately disappointed. The photographic mount was far too awkward to use as an altazimuth mount, so the first thing I will need to do is look around for something more suitable as [...]

I’m going to give speech recognition a try again. A few years ago I tried with Via Voice on the Mac, and wasn’t too successful. Quality was about 90% but the interface was a bit of a pain, and once I upgraded to a newer version of the OS the software wouldn’t work properly. Others [...]