Sunday, 10 January 2010

Michelin Pilot Sport 3 released 1st Jan 2010

Michelin Pilot Sport 3 ! new release
improved wet weather braking from the PS2 ...

Event Tyres PS3 new article



as a reminder heres my Pilot Sport 2 review
Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 review

Friday, 8 January 2010

-11.5 degrees C / 33k miles

-11.5 degrees C on the way to work this week, by eck its cold
note its 33,000 miles too

From Johns Car Blog

Thursday, 7 January 2010

central heating pump and hot water circuit running all the time ?

last night the central heating decided to continue running permanently.....
main control panel lights off but oh no the pump is running and hotwater light on the valve are lit!
I started to panic thinking the worst, however some detective (web) work and a call to my dad and voila it was out to the garage with a hairdryer to warm up the frost sensor on the wall next to the boiler...

within seconds the pump stopped woohoo
need to look into adjusting it as it isnt that cold in the garage, it is however baltic outside (around -10 deg C at the moment)

apparently it overrides everything to ensure it doesnt all freeze.

freeview signal merging S4C Wales and WinterHill. mixed channels

after the switchover in December 09 I retuned the 37 inch plasma Panasonic and all seemed to work OK.

but after the screen detecting new channels in Jan I chose to rescan ..... that was a mistake.
It messed up the channels , and gave me S4C and poor quality Channel4

looking at the signal strength and frequency of each, I could see that I was receiving from 2 transmitters.

no matter how much I tried I couldnt adjust them!

In the end the heath robinson solution was to scan and take a note of the position on the horizontal bar where the Welsh data was transmitted on (lower value) and where the higher band winter hill signal started.
I used my them but you could use tape lol

I then removed the aerial , rescanned and waited until I had got past the freq the Welsh channels would have been on (if the aerial was connected)
then quickly shoved the aerial back in...

voila full strength all channels , all in correct order, all from winter hill.

RESULT

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

blog spamming!

yep , it happened again. multiple spam chinese posts on many of my recent blog threads!

swines.I not impressed.

i was away from my phone so didnt notice, but soon as I did I enabled comment word verification for comments.

now I need to find a way to delete them, which isnt easy as there are hundreds and Im not about to delete them one by one !

Anyone got any tips let me know.
otherwise Im gonna have to look at the Blogger API myself...

possible Eclair Android 2.0 on Galaxy

oh yeah seems some enterprising individuals have started to get 2.0 working on the humble Galaxy....
doesnt all work yet, but its a very nice ray of hope

Android 2.0 on Galaxy

and original main thread

mustymod 2.0 eclair on Galaxy