Strangely Perfect

It’s Just Like Bladerunner, And Not Just the Weather! Tears in Rain Bladerunner, the movie, based on an old Philip K Dick science-fiction story, was made by Ridley Scott from North-East England, someone I’m distantly related to.  Made in 1982, it presents a very grey, wet, bleak future, heavily referencing Scott’s (and my own!) upbringing [...]

Introduction This is a small investigation into mail lists and scammy companies.  Some companies are fine, but I always go by the adage to judge a man by the company he keeps.  This shows how lists spread far beyond their initial purpose when you sign up for something.  It also shows how the privacy policies [...]

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Introduction While fishing around for some chords I came across azchords.com – as you do.  They’ve a shedload of Google ads and I accidentally hit the banner ad while trying to get rid of pesky popups (why do sites still do this now?)  I was taken to the website of someone called Kevin Hoeffer and [...]

Website blog stats can be very revealing. Someone in Australia recently did a search to find this website and another good return was this book on the Amazon website. If there’s ever one word or subject that attracts the eye is the word SEX.  Attach it to MACHINE and then  make it into a DIY [...]

Hey man, is this one of those probe things that you were telling me about for checking circuits? http://parts.digikey.co.uk/1/1/483535-kit-logic-probe-diy-digital-tw-diy-5024.html i think you said i could make one would that help me to find problems on my mixer? thanks paul

Hey man, hope all is going well with your visitors this week (editors note: SGI USA visitors to set up SEIN network) I have attached the service manual for the Seck 1882, let me know what you think Also here is a link for already partially built PSU http://www.fivefish.net/diy/default.asp I know there are for outboard, [...]

These are pictures taken yesterday (12 Jan 2008) looking south over an area called “The Meads” in Bridgwater on the Ordnance Survey maps but usually called “the levels below Fairfield wot gets wet in winta” by the local people. I’m now calling it Lake Bridgwater. I’ve never seen it this flooded and it gives an [...]

Love the new snap shots addition Also sent you a link with more interesting DIY See you Sun

Hey Martin, hope you had a good week. Here is the link for some of the stuff I want to eventually DIY http://www.fivefish.net/diy/default.asp Check out Neve 1272 Urei 1176 SSL Compressor Pre 10 48 API pre amp Tell me what you think? I noticed the oscilloscope, that I guess is used to see problems in [...]