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Engineering articles from the 1990s

27 Nov 2008: For ages I’ve been sitting on loads of great engineering articles written in the late nineties, and at last I’ve got around to putting them onto the interweb. They were produced by various engineering suppliers for general publication. I know a few will have appeared in print, but most of them have never been published online, to the best of my knowledge. You’ll find them at Chris Rand’s TechArchive – I’ve no commercial motivation or anything, I just think it’s interesting to see some of the stuff which was going around ten years ago or more. As I got through what I’ve got, I’ll upload more, so keep checking back to the site to see what’s new. Or old, I [...]

Mini Coyote Speed Camera Detector

11 Nov 2008: The Mini Coyote Speed Camera Detector (which was written about in The Times) is now available from Amazon UK for £199. Click on the link below to go directly to the correct page at Amazon where you can read more and where you can buy the mini speed camera detector. COYOTE – Coyote Mini Speed Camera Detector Please note that the information above is correct at the time of writing but price and availability do sometimes change at Amazon. UPDATE: See important note below.

Business cards to get you noticed

4 Nov 2008: I was describing my new(-ish) business cards to someone today, and it occurred to me I’d never put them on public display, nor had I credited the inspirations behind them. So here goes. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki’s blog for the original idea, and thanks to Wendy at Adeptise for the great execution. The company logo looks a little low-key, but it’s actually spot varnished in real life.

GB Olympics Medals Totals

13 Aug 2008: This is simply one of those things which I was curious about, and found it tricky to find online. Eventually I did. So I present the data here in the hope that it might save you an equally long search.

Acer Aspire One – Sunday Times recommended

13 Jul 2008: The Sunday Times today featured a review of the new generation of “solid-state” notebook PCs, which are faster and more reliable than traditional hard drive-toting laptops. Below I’ve tracked down the models they’ve reviewed, and given you links to the product information pages at Amazon UK. BEST BUY Acer Aspire One This great little machine is released on 11 August, but order it today as demand is bound to be massive. Why? Because not only does it tick all the boxes, but it’s just £220 (even less than the Sunday Times review model!). For just carrying around, accessing the web and email, and writing documents, it’s state-of-the-art. And a fetching shade of blue. Note that the other Acer Aspire One [...]

Friends Provident Trophy Final 2008 tickets and details

5 Jul 2008: Cricket eh? The final balls had hardly been bowled in the Friends Provident Trophy semi-finals than people were probably hitting the net to find out about tickets and details for the final. I was one of them, but boy was it hard work. So with any luck, this quick blog post will clear up what you need to know about the 2008 Kent vs Essex Friends Provident Trophy final. Firstly, where and when is it? The Friends Provident Trophy Final is at Lords on Saturday 16 August 2008 at 10:30. Now, how do I get tickets? I believe Lords cricket ground has a capacity of just 28,000, so tickets for a final between two sides as popular (and close to [...]

As many questions as answers, probably

27 May 2008: After I submitted a statistical analysis of Town’s season to Those Were The Days a week or two back, the good folks there have been badgering me for more, and I have to admit I couldn’t resist. Anyway, if you want to read all five I’ve now done, here they are: Boring Boring Ipswich Did We Punch Above Our Weight This Season? Did We Blow it All Mid-Season? Tough Acts To Follow For Magilton? …and the one which kicked it all off: 2007/08: How Does it Compare?

Ebbsfleet Utd’s Big Day Out ends happily

10 May 2008: What a great day for Ebbsfleet United, and yah-boo sucks (oh yes, my arguments are cultured) to over-opinionated, under-informed fools like Martin Samuel in The Times, who just took the easy option and stuck the boot into My Football Club without stopping to think that perhaps – just perhaps – these 29,000 souls who’ve invested real money into a real football team might be proper football supporters, not kids having a laugh. The huge Ebbsfleet following at Wembley today was as real as it comes, and included many thousands of new supporters from all over the world joining the army from Kent. The powerful developments at this club which are being driven by the MyFC project are going to have [...]

Some statistics about Ipswich Town’s season

6 May 2008: Finding myself having to do some Excel work today, and looking for some more interesting stats to distract me, I pasted in the Championship tables since the new tiering began 16 seasons ago (1992), so I could have some fun with unusual ratios and the SORT function in general.

Cult of Apple? Cult of Freebies, more like.

27 Mar 2008: The wife told me it would be chaos, but I wanted to go down and see the new “Grand Arcade” shopping precinct in Cambridge which opened fully today. When I got there, it was busy, but not chaotic, except for one thing: a massive queue snaking down back into the old Lion Yard precinct next door. There were hundreds of people, young and old. What were they queueing for? Entrance to the new Apple Store, it turned out. Now, I know Apple stuff is trendy and all that, but these people didn’t look like the sort that were about to drop £1500 on a MacBook Pro. I asked a few at the back what they were queueing for. Now, this [...]

Some of the images we use to indicate our commitment to “green”

15 Mar 2008: Someone’s going to get an interesting letter in the post on Monday morning. The Beyond Petrol site is a pixel-perfect spoof of the BP site, which falls just far enough the right side of silliness to make you take a second glance to check that it really is a spoof. Old and new communication techniques are permitting oil companies to communicate “green” while delivering the same huge value to stockholders, declares the front page. Those who are expecting the normal corporate PR snoozarama might not take in what spoof statements like that actually mean. Great stuff.

More taxpayer-funded misGuided Bus PR puffery

28 Feb 2008: Cambridgeshire County Council has made a couple of expensive-looking videos to promote the Cambridge to St Ives misGuided Bus – it would appear that a substantial portion of the staggering £100M+ budget for this huge white elephant has gone the way of PR firms

Namechecked in the Eurostar Ebbsfleet advert!

19 Feb 2008: Yay. CherryHintonBlu (damn those 15-character name tag limits!) featured in the newspaper ads taken out by Eurostar today to celebrate the takeover of Ebbsfleet United.

As Opposed To “Quite Fast”?

15 Feb 2008:

Stephen Bywater says the c-word: video

1 Feb 2008: To say that I’m underwhelmed by my team, Ipswich, signing Stephen Bywater for the rest of the season is an understatement. As I wrote in a letter to Ipswich CEO Derek Bowden yesterday: I did not ever believe we would consider taking on a player who – at our own ground – had gestured to one of our players to come off and fight him in the tunnel (and who I understand was rightly questioned by police for this). A player who is a bit of an internet star for interrupting an on-pitch TV interview with moronic shouting into the microphone. And above all, a player who is now notorious for thinking it is acceptable to spell out the c-word [...]
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