Category: Random Thoughts

This is the first strong northerly we have had at the lake for some time, and it is the second time I have had a good long sail in the boat in decent breeze. In essence it was a good shakedown of the boat. First up a few things structurally need work: 1) The bolts…

Found the ultimate tool for retrieving ropes from booms/masts etc. This tool is a thin metal skewer with a hooked end at one end and a threaded end at the other, it is about 30cm long. The thread fits perfectly into smaller garden steaks made out of bamboo. For those that can’t identify it is…

Just replaced a number of the older fittings on the boom with new fittings. I am not sure how old these fittings are but a number of the blocks didn’t turn at all so they needed replacing.    Ronstan claims that there new fittings are super light. Having digital scales kicking around the garage, I…

Luckily before I sprayed the ‘top coat’ on the bottom of the boat (if that make’s sense) I talked to the guys at the club about how to put the foam in the cockpit floor of the boat. It turns out that the best way is lay the foam and epoxy it in place. The…

Lirc by default creates lircd.conf files with the following headers: name DViCO_Utraview bits 16 flags SPACE_ENC eps 30 aeps 120 I have found with my custom serial receiver (in this case the second one I have created) that you will find at times you have to walk right up to the receiver to get the…

In the blogging world there are those who have something worthwhile to say, and then there are those that just blog inane rubbish. Well Alexis has just joined blogging world with the ShwainBlog. Now with Alexis I beleive that he will fit into the worthwhile to say category rather than the inane rubbish category of…

We had a late night visitor to our backyard tonight. Caught a couple of photos of him. We have seen these before around the streets, but never before in our yard. I am pretty sure that this is a Southern Boobook/Morepork

Last night I went and saw workmate Alexis and his brother do their comedy show at the Coopers Inn. Conservatism is a mix of skits and stand up. While there were still a couple of rough edges, they were still quite entertaining for the hour they were on. So they definitely get my votes for…

One of the guys at Dius Computing has a show on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. I wasn’t really sure what the show was going to be like, but at work Alexis is pretty quick on his feet when it comes to the witty responses. Well now you can see what the show is going…

Over the last month I made the mistake of believing that I could transfer my website between the Christmas and New Year break. This included getting the registration for the domain transfered as well. This took a bit longer than I expected, and the transfer finally completed while in the middle of a trip through…