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Haynes Internal Combustion Engine

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First of all, I’d like to say a massive thank you to our good friend Antirealism for buying me and C such an interest Christmas present. Secondly, I’m not sure what you all did for New Years eve, however thanks to Andy, me and C were kept occupied by the Haynes Internal Combustion Engine. As we hadn’t planned on going out, to stand in an packed pub, which we’d spend a fortune to get into, to only have to spend the majority of the night queueing at the bar….we decided to get some beer in, and build the engine 🙂 … Continue reading Haynes Internal Combustion Engine

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Xbox 360 Halo Reach Edition

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Now anybody that knows me, will know I’m a sucker for shiny things, and nothing comes more shiny that this limited edition Xbox 360s. I’ve been toying with the idea of getting a 2nd xbox for a while now, and when I found out that the Kinect device required a special port, (or an adapter), I thought I’d hang fire until this bad boy was release. Currently I have the Xbox 360 Elite, and to be honest I’m very happy with it, I’ve rarely had a problem, and defiantly not had any red rings of death. So, today’s the day, … Continue reading Xbox 360 Halo Reach Edition

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Huawei E585 MiFi Router

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I’ve been toying with the idea of the MiFi device for a while (while since I moved from Nokia to iPhone and lost the ability to use the joikuspot software) I get the majority of my internet fix when out and about using my iPhone, however there are occasions when I’m away from home and could do with connecting my MacBook to the web, when I’m not anywhere near a useable wireless network. I had looked at paying for the tethering on my iPhone for these occasions, however both me and C would need to connect, which would mean setting … Continue reading Huawei E585 MiFi Router

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Mini Stormtrooper images

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As some of you may have seen on Facebook and Twitter that I’ve been messing around with a number of Star Wars action figures. These in particular and a couple of stormtroopers, and an R2D2 unit (this is what happens when a 35 year old goes shopping after a couple of beers). I’ve also been after an opportunity to put the iPhone 4’s camera to work. All the images below are shot with the iPhone 4’s 5 megapixel camera. Now I wish I could take credit for the idea, however there are a lot smarter people on the internet, with … Continue reading Mini Stormtrooper images

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Mac Mini

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“Dear Mr Jobs, When I said “Your work here was done”, in my previous post about my iPhone, I may have been telling porkies, as I still had a Windows machine in the house, however you’ll be glad to know, that I’ve done the right thing, and replaced it with a Mac Mini. Sorry for the porkie, and I am now 100% Apple. Your ever faithful disciple Darren.” As you can probably tell from the above, I’ve replaced my last remaining Windows machine with a Mac Mini (Really ? No sh1t Sherlock). To be honest I’ve been toying with the … Continue reading Mac Mini

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Ozaki iPill Microphone

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As some of you may know, in just over 2 weeks I’ll be heading to the Holiday Inn in Birmingham for Dimension Jump XV, this year Red Dwarf Convention, and as we do a Red Dwarf podcast (ScutterCast), I thought it might me a good idea to record some footage while I was there. I’ve been looking at a number of solutions and came up with the idea of using Audioboo from my iPod touch, then picking up the Audioboo feed using WP-o-Matic, which will then post the audio on the Red Dwarf Forum homepage, which will then tweet this … Continue reading Ozaki iPill Microphone

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How to stop spam bots on phpbb3

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Over the past couple of months I’ve been having a bit of an issue with spam bots signing up, and posting spam all over my forums. I spent the best part of 2 days trying to combat this but to no avail. I was just about to tear my hair out, when I stubled accross a brilliant idea over at awesomestyles.com The idea was to create a custom field which was compulsery on signup. Custom profile fields are a feature of phpBB3. They allow you, as admin, to easily add fields that a user can fill out to their profile … Continue reading How to stop spam bots on phpbb3

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FAIL !

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Well, due to having 8 days of constant drinking, myself and C thought it would be a good idea to have some time off the beer, so we would be “normal” for when we went back to work. As per my last post, we bought the “Where in the movies”, and decided if it only gets 4.5 out of 10, then the only try way to test it, would be to get drunk, lol ! As we seemed to still have 8 cans on Magners Cider in the outside fridge, we decided to get a 10 pack of Bud, and … Continue reading FAIL !