Monthly Archives: April 2008

Buzz buzz

Posted on Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 by Jeremy

I thought my mouse cursor wasn’t moving. It was a fly… I obviously need glasses on to operate a computer!

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All fixed. VTR1000 returns and MX5 makes it home without assistance!

Posted on Sunday, 20 April, 2008 by Jeremy

I picked up my motorbike on Saturday. It sounds very different to before, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… They had listed on the job card “$500.00 in ‘honda parts’”… I quizzed them on this and they said that the parts list was a mile long and they just summed it up in one line so it wasn’t pages and pages of invoice. I asked to see the parts list and they refused me. They claimed it was a lucky co-incidence that it came to exactly $500 in parts which seems rather unlikely to me but the bike is running again which is a HUGE improvement from before. I also seem to have fixed the MX5 electrical problems. I fixed it by returning the $220 Federal battery to the shop I bought it from … Continue reading →

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11.53 volts

Posted on Friday, 18 April, 2008 by Jeremy

!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> After a night on the charger I checked out my $200 Federal battery and found it was only 11.53 volts. Straight after a full charge in my experience lead acid batteries hover around 13 volts. I called up about my motorbike yesterday afternoon and was told that it would now be put off another day because they were waiting upon a gasket, (for the third day in a row) and it would deffinately be finished (for the third day in a row) by the followingafternoon. I’m sitting in my cubicle cube by myself today. Everyone else has called in sick apparently. After a whole rash of work prior to 10am it’s been relatively quiet today and I’m just biding my time until lunch. Nothing makes … Continue reading →

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Friday morning.

Posted on Friday, 18 April, 2008 by Jeremy

I’m so tired this morning, I barely made it up before 6am and I have to leave in a second to catch my train. I’m really looking forward to the weekend.

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Two types of battery testing

Posted on Thursday, 17 April, 2008 by Jeremy

Today I thought I would try bringing in the eeepc to work on the train as a side by side comparison with travelling with the 15.4” macbook pro. Despite being half of the weight of the Apple it wasn’t noticably lighter but it felt less awkward since the eeepc can basically fit entirely in the palm of my super-sized hands. For pure writing efficiency the keyboard works ok but with large hands comes great large fingertips so I need to be super accurate to avoid hitting two keys at the same time. As part of this trial I am investigating how long the battery lasts when using low screen brightness, no wifi, no multimedia but sleeping when I’m actively doing work instead of being shutdown and being reaonably used for typing and editing. With the MBP (admittedly I don’t use … Continue reading →

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Return from the void

Posted on Tuesday, 15 April, 2008 by Jeremy

This week I made the decision that I really ought to be writing more often. If I did have any regular readers I’m sure I’ve lost you all now through my lack of regularity. The truth of the matter is I’ve been so busy over the last month or so that I haven’t had the time nor the inclination to write much unfortunately. There has been quite a few big changes in my life and I’ve undertaken activities that take up alot of my free time outside of work, and I’ve not at the break time at work to fill you in on what has been happening. I’ve recently changed jobs. I now work in the city, but I have to get up very early in order to make the train (5:30am or so) but when I get home from … Continue reading →

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