Archive from July, 2010

Texaco Championship Fantasy Football 2010/2011

21 Jul 2010: Woo-Hoo. Texaco Fantasy Football is back for the Championship 2010/2011 season. Do join! Picking a team takes 5-10 minutes and is free. You can then also join in individual leagues, and I’ve got two tell you about: 1. ITFC Twitterati. This is for regular #itfc Tweeters. Please pick a team name which relates to your Twitter name, so it’s obvious who you are. The PIN for this league is 900. 2. Peter on the ITFC debaser.org mailing list has also set up a league. The PIN for that one is 815. Join your team in either or both! Right, click here to pick your team (mine is above). At the end, join your team into Leagues 900 and/or 815.

Building a tiny bookcase/bookshelf hi-fi

12 Jul 2010: OK, here’s the task: I wanted to build a discreet music system to go in a room with a bookcase, using an old third-generation iPod from about 2004, whose battery had long since died but which worked perfectly sitting in its original dock. The challenge was to make use of two nice Gale speakers, which sat neatly on the bookshelves, rather than buying a brand new (and poorer-sounding) iPod speaker system. Clearly then, the missing link was an amplifier which could sit inconspicuously in the bookcase. With a depth of 170mm, the bookshelf didn’t lend itself to this sort of thing, as hi-fi manufacturers’ idea of “small” tends to refer to a unit’s height, and occasionally width, but almost never [...]

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