Just seeing if the SQL server is working

I just update wordpress to the latest and greatest.

trouble is some of the pages are broken and I don’t have the enthusiasm to fix it.

Maybe a reinstall tomorrow.

As we are doing the kitchen at the moment, I reponded to an request for kitchen units.

After a couple of photos, dimensions and the expaination of them being wobberly and held together with tape, the taker was still interested.

We spent a long time NOT destroying these units to have them put out and covered for collection.

A quick email saying that he had been around and thought they were too old for his shed had me a bit knarked.

As I saw the cupboards more or less where we left them, I went into knarked mode and proceeded to move the cupboards back into the back garden and just to prove this guy wrong, I single handed put the cupboards into my shed, where I now have a decent storage system.

Sureley micro blogging isn’t where it’s at, so I’ve installed Drivel to see if I can rekindle the blog.

If you read this, it’s a start!

Bad reception on DAB in car.

Reason, when peeling back aerial from old car window and storing in a scrunched mess, aerial snapped.

How do people get by without an x-ray machine?

As JaffaCam has been down for awhile, due to hibernation. The camera is up and running again.

It looks as if I either have to move the camera into the pen again, or move the UV light to one side.

At the moment the camera is mounted on the digial radio. It was either that or the homebrew keg.

Oh btw, the flickr photos are all out of date as Jaffa has forgotten his password.

We retired the old Honda just before Christmas and replaced it with a 130BHP Passat.

All is well, except for the analogue radio. So out with the standard and in with the old DAB.

It seemed to go all too well as the connectors in the Passat are ISO standard ones so the only mod required is the powered arial for the DAB.

Once connected it looked as if it was working, however, the clock would remember the time I switched off the engine and forget the position of the CD. It turns out the pins are reversed and the perminent live and ignition are in reverse.

This explains why Bluespot sell ISO harnesses for Passats. I decided to get one fromn Motorworld and hack it myself.

I tried all components before pushing in the unit. Realising that I needed a screwdriver, I left the car, but as I went to lock it, the remote stopped working. It turns out that the new harness has the perminant and ignition wired into one, which must make the car think the keys are still in the ignition and stops the remote from working!

The harness from motorworld is missing a couple of wires one of which being the Auto Sound wire, which makes the radio go louder to coupe with the tractor engine roaring. I proceeded to hack saw off the speaker ISO connector as I could use it direct from the Passat and use the spare wires to fill the gaps in the adaptor I needed. I also cut the ignition wire in the adaptor which was stopping the car from remopte locking and used it for the powered DAB arial.

All that is left to do is to 3D print a tray for an MP3 player/phone, create a AUX cable and decide whether to have a female 3.5mm jack into one of the spare button position, or a flying lead with a male 3.5mm jack (which would make more sense, but not as tidy), or ExtUSB cable to charge and listen to my G1.

I’ve done the deed and decided linux and open source is the future. I’m the proud owner of the htc’s G1 and as you can see, it is wordpress compatable.

I was at work today and thought I’d better get to grips with the company hardware.

Trouble is looking at round discs was a little boring, so I shoved my soon to be replaced Sony Ericsson W880i into the machine.

As my parents are holding a classic 1979 Clubman Estate for me, and keep telling me that chancers keep popping around to ask if they would like to take it off their hands for nothing, I’ve decided to do something about it.
After calling a friend near my parents, there is a good possibility I’ll be throwing cash at the old Clubby and happy days will be here again.