Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . .
… will only get you so far ….
Now 25 years old an enterprising developer has been recreating the UI and functionality of this classic O/S as a runnable App.Its an on-going project but has reached a level of maturity that makes it worth a look for anyone curious to try it! Go on - give it a go, you know you want... Continue Reading →
So at some point after my Father retired he told me a story about when he was on one of his holidays with my Mum and the guide made reference to recounting early childhood memories (detail below) - this got my Dad thinking and when he returned he decided to recount his own - this... Continue Reading →
The follow up to Roland's classic D-50 I had been keen to take a look at exactly what a "Super L.A. Synthesis" Synthesizer can do for some time .... Symptoms were the classic "No RAM Card" and also loss of internal pre-sets as a result of a dead internal CMOS battery (but little did I... Continue Reading →
So I happened to be down the end of our garden this morning when I spotted these two. They carried on like this for several minutes (I have more footage!). At first I assumed that they had found something that they were both eating but then they moved around the garden performing similar moves -... Continue Reading →
At some stage the latch that allows one to open the bonnet on our Toyota Yaris has broken. While this hasn't been a major inconvenience (the car was off the road pending a new exhaust) I have, over the last few weeks tried various methods and jiggery pokery to get the bonnet open! Here is... Continue Reading →
Although I have had this mower professionally serviced before now it has always been quite a long winded (and expensive) operation involving the service centre ("Cheltenham Mowers") dispatching a van to both pick up and then re-deliver the mower after the work has been done. On this occasion the mower blade had become warped as... Continue Reading →
Another Covid-19 project - we have a large area in our garden that some 25 years ago was indeed a vegetable patch but has now got so hopelessly overgrown that it cannot be described as anything anymore. I decided to see if I could turn a piece of it into a new vegetable patch and... Continue Reading →
While Capturing old video footage (as outlined in a previous post) I hit an issue resulting from the old beam splitter having a rather large bit of fluff on the left hand mirror when the footage was taken. While it is still possible to enjoy the footage this proved to be very distracting and I... Continue Reading →
So I have around 30 old tapes and an old Sony Digital 8 Camcorder that I want to utilise to save / preserve old family videos to watch on a 3d Theatre setup and in VR on my HP Reverb. So I set about doing the following: Cataloguing tapes according to date and format (ie... Continue Reading →
... and you thought the quiz on my last post was hard?
