Year: 2008

well? how did it go?? fast enough to flip your hair upwards off your head from your comment on my blog! 🙂

they do look very very shiny and efficient 😉

d (I think I want new shoes now too)

Lol Dianne 🙂 I like my shiny shoes. They have far more grip than the last pair, which led to me convincing all the other players that I’m nuts by diving 6 times and pulling out the pirouette shot 5 times 🙂

the entire time I was reading this I thought you were saying IraqTV and I couldn’t figure out what the hell you were doing!!

then I went back past your shiny shoes and now I feel so much better – much less confused.

Awww, thanks SO much for linking my post Sleepypete. It means a lot to me that you’ve done this for her, and I’ll be sure to pass on everyone’s good wishes to her when we speak on Sunday.

Firstly, please wish Dawn’s Mom well, see here for more info.

No Thursday Thirteen this week, although I have one planned … Not got my 13 myths to put in my 13 myths just yet, working on it 🙂

Ipaq TV is on the air, which means I’ve been successful in :

Hooking up webcam to laptop – trivial 🙂
Getting the streaming video thing going – almost trivial
(issues with getting the software from Microsoft)
Ipaq connected to network – hassle … grr … wifi … grr
Ipaq looking at video stream – sorted 🙂

I probably won’t go for the 100% solution, which would be to make it available via the internet, I don’t have a use for that plus I’d have to hook it up via my desktop, which isn’t exactly reliable …

Just one slight problem, which might put a downer on using IpaqTV to fix the Skydish … I was testing it while watching a Dresden Files episode. The image came up ok but when I waved at the camera, nothing happened. And then I start hearing voices … I’m not going nuts, it was Dresden Files voices. I listened a little harder and realised – “they said that a minute ago !”

And you’ve probably just realised what the problem might be 😉 (need to tinker with da buffers)

I have a Secret Weapon for the badminton tonight ! They’re shiny …

I have a new Crazy Project lined up. It’s aimed at fixing my Sky dish, which I think has been pushed back against the wall by the wind we’ve had. It’s now about 20-30 degrees out of alignment. The aim of the new Crazy Project is to get the Sky dish pointing back in the right direction. I have 3 options there :

This will involve me on a ladder outside moving the dish and a mate telling me when the signal strength and quality are nice and high again.

There’s a Skydish across the road that I could peek at to see what compass direction it’s pointing in. One problem – I don’t have a compass handy.

This would take a few steps to set up :
1 – Webcam connected to laptop again. Not used my webcam for ages.
2 – Laptop has streaming video software installed to get the webcam piccys on to the network.
3 – Ipaq (currently my satnav machine) gets connected to the wi-fi.
4 – Ipaq gets pointed to the video from the laptop.
5 – Telly and Skybox are set to the signal strength/quality page, webcam points at telly.
6 – I go up ladder with Ipaq and wiggle the dish until the meters are high again.

The telly is out of line of sight for where I’d be standing on the ladder, which is why I’d need a remote view of it …

I’m discounting Option 1 cos it’s just plain boring. Plus CK’s away for a week so I’d have to pressgang a different person. Option 2 goes because it involves lurking suspiciously around someone else’s Skydish and the dish next door to the one I have in mind is broken.

It has to be Option 3 really. That involves poking new pieces of software, crazy positioning of a webcam, abuse of 4 different pieces of electronics and precarious perching on a ladder. It’s nuts enough that it just has to be done.

Pictures will follow if it works but not today – going out soon.

PS Pain free today for the first time since last Wednesday 🙂 Although my knees are still persuading me that it’ll be a good idea for me to acquire new knee supports tomorrow.
PS2 Having the webcam wired in like that would let me view it over the internet if I chose to make that happen …

I lament the relative lack of sophisticatin in the North American auto market. Years of cheap gas have resulted in a population content to drive big boats with automatic transmissions.

I love how high fuel costs have forced the European market toward small, cuting edge designs. Sure hope some of that takes hold here soon.

Keep us posted on your hunt. How neat!

Hi from Michele’s!

There were a couple of C4’s in the local garage that looked interesting … Probably on the limit of what I’d be interested in because I don’t need the space of a Mondeo size thing …

Spotted a couple of Clio’s too 🙂

Hi, I’m over from Michele’s. Happy birthday to your Mum and Gran, hope you’re having a great weekend.

I’m scanning for new cars aswell…I think I’m decided on a Citreon C3 although I keep seeing other cars that raise my eyebrows a bit!!