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Nothing for a while

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

My PC is up and running, but I’ve yet to do any new videos. went to Chester in March, so thee is that to upload. We are off out mid August and doing the four counties. So plenty of material to come.

Bad PC

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

The strange, or is it sad, thing of technology is that you tend to rely on it, or more specific one aspect above others. It’s human nature of course but people rely on things until they go bad. I have a desktop. laptop, and mobile phone, all capable of providing daily internet access, but its [...]

Google Earth Canal Maps

Monday, January 10th, 2011

With Waterscape changing its map every so often, I’m always on the look out for alternatives. Their new one is fine for route planning but the lines don’t actually follow the route of the canal (straightened/simplified to reduce amount of data points I guess), so I was quite pleased when I found someone had done [...]

Bringing back more from holiday than expected

Friday, November 19th, 2010

I went away for some winter sun at the beginning of the month on a non-boating holiday – unless you count day trips out to sea! I was planning to spend a couple of spare days on my return (was going away for 10 days but had booked 2 weeks off work) to finish off [...]

Boardgaming tonight

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Off to play some boardgames tonight. Possibly Innovation