At around 6am this morning (BST) the last Skylark sounding rocket blasted off from Swedish Space Corporation’s Esrange site, near Kiruna Sweeden. The Skylark was the last wholly designed UK rocket. First concived in 1955, the Skylark was at the forefront of low budget UK space science. In the 50 years since it first flew, …
Category Archives: geeking
New mobile ‘phone
My old T-mobile contract was costing me a small fortune per month. I mainly make calls in the daytime, so all the contract free time in the evenings and weekends was essientially useless and unused. The new contract with Orange nets me 200 min free calls anytime and costs £30 per month. New contract promotions …
woohoo!
Top Google hit for Papal Explosion. Go Me! check here
New Camera
I’ve traded in my old Sony DSC-P32 digital camera for something a bit better – the Fujifilm S3500. I now have quite a bit more control over the images I take. Not quite full manual control, but a lot better than point and shoot. This was one of the first pictures I took with the …
I was on a roll as well…
Earlier today I picked up an Intel StorageStation networked disk storage box for £3. I got it home to find that the disks are missing and that the OS was stored on one of the missing disks. No real problem, google shows that the device runs FreeBSD and an OS image was on Intel’s website. …