Wildfire - A Quick Start Manual (PDF)

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

In my post Christmas tidy up I came across a long time favorite, the quick start guide for the Wildfire telephone service from Wildfire Communications, Inc. In my habit, of late, to post non-existent manuals online for others to benefit, I have done so with this.
The table of contents reads as follows:

Try This First
Getting Help
Starting [...]

Camping, Fishing & Picnics near Six Flags Great America

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

If you are heading to Six Flags Great America at Gurnee, IL this summer, and you are looking for a campground to stay at, then you might want to look at staying at Fish lake Beach Resort. It is the perfect place to visit and stay.
Just 13 miles away from SF Great America, and 40 [...]

Nikkai A52HF Digital Receiver & Recorder Manual

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Having written my review o the Nikkai A52HF, I can see that a bunch of people are search online for the manual and seem to be out of luck. I have therfore spliced my paper copy and put it through a duplex document scanner. So here it is:

Download the A52HF manual in PDF.

Suffering Eye Strain and Finding Solutions

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Back some 6 months ago or more, I wrote a piece about eye strain and how to try and avoid it. This was pretty much because I myself had come to the very stark realization that I was facing, not just the symptoms of, but the effects of eye strain. If you have done any reading up on the topic you will know that this includes anything from itching eyes, to blurred vision, added light sensitivity, and more. That was 6 months ago.

The Nikkai Barebones Digital TV Recorder (PVR)

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Yesterday, I finally decided to get a digital Freeview box, not only because of Christmas, and all the great programming associated with it, but also due to the impending UK Digital Switchover, and that, despite living in Central London, the analog TV signal to my apartment is pretty dreadful. To this end I succumbed to [...]

Decidedly Low-Tech Approach to Interior Design

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Lawyer-by-day and all-round-creative-genius-by-night, Charlie Kratzer, has decided to decorate the basement of his South Lexington, KY home with Sharpie Magic Markers.  The feat of artistic endeavor includes cameos of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, as well as British war time leader Winston Churchill and eminent Irish author George Bernard Shaw.
He obviously has a gift and [...]

The Best Way to Resign - No Kidding!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

The pitfalls of work and a humorous look at a resignation note that never was one April Fools day.

A Slice Of Heaven in Palm Springs, CA

Friday, June 20th, 2008

If you love your chocolate and other epicurian delights, then Kaffee Haus at 185 S. Indian Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, CA is the place to go.
The list of the delicious, the heavenly and the down right “wrong” is endless and there is something for even the fussiest’s palette. Should the thought of such rich [...]

Street Art Meets Art Gallery

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

To promote its new street art walking tour, the Tate Modern is bedecked in 6 works by a range of global graffiti artists: Blu from Bologna; the artist collective Faile from New York; JR from Paris; Nunca and Os Gêmeos, both from São Paulo and Sixeart from Barcelona.
What does this tell us about the [...]

Romanian Village Elects Dead Mayor

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Linked from the home page of the BBC World News online today was an article about how the Romanian village of Voinesti re-elected their mayor of 2 decades despite the fact that he died the night before the election.
Now I am not quite sure this is worthy of front page news, but I think it’s [...]