tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55343122011-11-28T13:50:12.274+13:00An online guide to butchering old technology.ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.comBlogger1931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-12135390246441263762008-08-10T19:25:00.002+12:002008-08-10T19:33:49.779+12:00

I spotted a Google Street View car on Khyber Pass Road in Auckland on Friday evening. A quick look around on the internet it seems that a few of these cars have been spotted around New Zealand. I'll try and get a photo next time, I was on my way home on the bus when I spotted it. They're quite distinctive vehicles, because of the camera equipment. It looks like Google have opted for Holden Astras

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mmmmm. Cheese on Toast. 201/366Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings on TourNot much to report on my computer projects this week. So to my new cooker. The landlord finally arranged for our useless cooker to be replaced. Which means I can now grill things.Cheese on Toast is a simple pleasure, but one I have been deprived of for the last 18 months. Now we have a new cooker, complete with working grill

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FrankenMac Lives. 195/366Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings on TourFrankenMac running LInux Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake from the live CD.

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Important discovery number 1. FrankenMac, my old 350mhz G3 iMac will quite happily run with 133Mhz RAM rather than 100Mhz. With the dismantling of FrankenPC I just happened to have 2 128mb 133Mhz sticks of RAM kicking about. So they have both been installed and now FrankenPC has heaps of RAM to install an operating system.Important discovery number 2. My mystery optical drive is just a CD-ROM as

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caught sleeping in the iCat. 193/366Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings on TourThe FrankenPC project is now officially dead. After a hard disk drive failure, and the purchase of a dead replacement, I decided it was time to call an end to the project. It was a success however. I had a working PC for 9 months, made entirely from bits no-one else would want.The whole project cost less than $50, and

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Stuck in Hard Disk Drive Hell! 185/366Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings on TourThe FrankenPC/FrankenMac projects are becoming a bit of nightmare. This is the failed Hard Drive from FrankenPC. It will not load up Windows, it just gets to a point where the disk stops. So took that one out and replaced it with the Hard Drive from FrankenMac. The new hard drive should be formated and blank, however

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The FrankenMac project has taken a bit of a turn. I made a bit of a school boy error with my new hard drive. When I installed it in the Mac I hadn't really considered formatting. It was a new formated hard drive after all. Of course 95% of the world is Windows, so the drive is formatted as NTFS, and I can't seem to figure out how to change the formatting during the installation of Ubuntu. So it

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Ready to install the new hard drive. 178/366Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings on TourThe FrankenMac project is coming on well. One of the iMacs was very quickly stripped, it contained nothing of value, and turned into a cat box. I've christened it the iCat.So now it's time to concentrate on the one that is almost complete. This one has the complete motherboard assembly, a CD-ROM, and even a 64mb

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Project FrankenMac. 173/366Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings on TourProject FrankenMac has come about as the result of a bargain on Trade Me. $8.50 for 3 iMacs. They were described as incomplete and I knew I was bidding on a bit of a unknown quantity. When I returned home with them I started to investigate what I had bought. This revealed that 2 of them did not really have anything of value. No

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Whoo! It's been a busy few weeks here since my last post. I am now a married man!Thanks to everyone who was there and all those who helped us out. For those who weren't there it was a great day and I will be posting some photos on my Flickr pages soon.The run up to the wedding had been fairly manic. There were last minute changes and problems, which were all sorted with a few hours to spare.It's

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We're into 2008 and there are only 5 weeks until the wedding. Last year it seemed so far away. Time really seems to have flown by. So it looks like the first part of this year will be busy.I have now been living in New Zealand for just over a year. I can't say it has been exactly what I'd expected, but that is no bad thing. Life would be dull if things we're how you expected them to be.I love New

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Christmas is over and we're almost into another year. I haven't posted much on here lately. Life has been full with wedding plans, travelling to Whakatane, and generally doing Chritmas things.Not that things will be slowing down in the foreseeable future. There are only 6 weeks to go until the wedding day, and still so much to do.Summer has arrived, so there's plenty of oppourtunity to avoid

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We watched the Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth, at the weekend. It was the most thought provoking film I've seen in a long time. All I can do is recommend that everyone should watch the film. We all already know about global warming and greenhouse gases, the issues that An Inconvenient Truth addresses are well publicised. However seeing it compressed into 2 hours, and presented so well by Al

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Anyone who knows me will know I'm a Mac user, and committed to the Apple Mac. I could not honestly find any reason to go back to Windows. But I must confess to 'sleeping with the enemy'. This is mostly because I get some free stuff from work. I do use Office 2004 for Mac for my productivity software. My free version of Apple Works couldn't do the same job, and Open Office was like stepping back

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Some rather exciting news from the WorldWideWeb today. I received a email a couple of weeks ago to say that one of my photos had been nominted for inclusion in an online travel guide. Today the picture was published on Schmaps. Above is Schmaplett linking to my photo on their site.

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I can't believe it's been five months since I moved to Auckland. It's flown by, and I've been way too busy to update this blog. The wedding plans are progressing. We have a confirmed date, venue, caterers, bagpiper and wedding dress. The invites have been chosen and the printer paid. Things are starting to get expensive. I suddenly find myself owing various people over $5000. And that's just the

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When are Stagecoach Auckland's management team going to be taken out and shot?They couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery! The buses this morning were unbelievebly bad. As I walked to the stop two empty buses shot past, one about 5 minutes late, the other about 5 minutes early. The bus I eventually managed to get on arrived 25 minutes later, itself running 15 minutes late. This of course meant I was

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What a morning! The bus to work was like a cattle truck. I never thought I'd find a bus service as badly mis-managed as Lothian Buses, but Stagecoach Auckland are far worse. New Zealanders haven't yet figured out public transport. There's 1.2 million people in Auckland and 600,000 cars. Everybody drives everywhere. Even I'm guilty of this. Often there isn't an alternative to driving. The buses

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I've had my first earthquake, and I didn't even notice! New Zealand is prone to earthquakes, although Auckland less so than most places. So I'd been expecting one sooner or later. On Wednesday there was a tremor measuring 4.5. Amanda noticed immediately, but I didn't feel a thing. It made news on the TV and in the papers.Not a lot else is happening here. Still making wedding plans, and still

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It's been a while since my last update, but my life is hectic at the moment. Since my last entry I've started work. I'm working for a very well known computer software company. It's not especially exciting, but it's gainful employment.We've settled into our new home. The cottage is very nice and I'm happy because there's food growing in my garden. I have chilies, apples, and some kind of citrus

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New house Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. Happy New Year, and a belated Merry Christmas to you all. Hope everyone had a good one. Although I hear that the festivities in Edinburgh were cancelled again.Our new Year was very quiet. We've just moved into a new house in Auckland. We're in Remuera, an area of Auckland best described as affluent. I'm not sure how we fit in. In the UK 4

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I've made it to Auckland. I've not done much yet. Just settling in and getting used to my new surroundings. The weather has been pleasently warm all week. Although it is really windy today and looking like it will rain sometime soon.Auckland is huge. Bungalows spread out for many miles from the city. On the North Shore the whole place looks like it is clining from a hillside. Everything is lush

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Well I'm half way there. I'm sat in the lounge at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. I have 4 free wireless internet connections to choose from, so I thought I'd log on and update this blog. It's been neglected for the last few weeks for obvious reasons. The stress of packing, unpacking, and re-packing drove me to distraction before I left. I still didn't manage to get everything in my bags.

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It's getting close to my departure date now. With only 4 weekends left before I fly out to New Zealand I thought it was about time I actually started doing stuff rather than just thinking about it. I had a productive weekend sorting some stuff into boxes for the charity shop. It still looks like I have far too much stuff though. I'm trying to work out what I really need to keep. I'm sure it will

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This last week has been long. On Monday I felt rather stiff, sore and groggy. At first it was just my legs, but as the day wore on my neck stiffened up too. The effects of being in a car accident are quite unpleasent. I have to give a statement to the police at some point too. I'm not sure what I was doing in work on Monday. I don't think I was especially productive.On Tuesday our managers

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Today has been a strange day. At lunch time my friend Steven sent me a text to say he'd pop over. All pretty normal. We had a chat and a cup of tea before driving into the centre of Edinburgh. Still pretty normal. Then as he pulled into a car parking space somebody smashed into the side of us. Rather less normal. It's only the second time I've been involved in a car accident, and I can't say it's

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Ahhhh....., September. I love this time of year in Edinburgh. The weather today is beautiful, clear blues skies, late summer sunshine, and still warm. It's not red hot, it's too late in the year, but it is still very pleasantly warm in the sun. It's supposed to be about 19ºC, and that is still warm enough for Scots to sunbathe. Princes Street Gardens and the Meadows are both fairly full of people

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I couldn't sleep last night. I went to bed at about 11:30pm after getting bored of Match Of The Day. By 1:30am I was still wide awake and found myself clambering out of bed. For one reason and another I started measuring out 9 cubic feet and trying to work out exactly how much I could fit into that space. There is a logical reason for doing that, but not for doing it at 1:30am. By 2:00am I'd

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I've heard that the festival organisers want to expand the festival in the coming years. God knows how, Edinburgh seems to have reached saturation point this year. It definitely seemed busier on the Royal Mile yesterday than I've ever seen it. Although the Stop the War march may have contributed to the sheer volume of people in the city.Thankfully fringe Sunday is always a bit more manageable.

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It's festival time in Edinburgh, which means a lot of things.It means that the population doubles as the city fills with actors, comedians, performers, tourists, lady boys, freaks, and weirdos. There's also more men in drag than can be good for a city.It means that everywhere becomes a venue, not just places like the Festival Theatre and Queens Hall. Every street corner is a performance space.

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David Hasselhoff - Jump In My CarPure Genius

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My blog has been sadly neglected for the last 6 weeks or so. I'll briefly bring it up to date. After my update in June the World Cup started. So that explains why I ignored my blog for at least 5 weeks. I did spend those 5 weeks watching football so there was nothing of any consequence to report anyway. I didn't take part in the Rat Race Adventure as planned. Aggravating an old knee injury

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Bondi? LA? Rio? Well, no. Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens. It's not the sort of thing you see everyday in Edinburgh City Centre, especially as we are a few miles inland and there's no beach. But beach volleyball has arrived in Edinburgh. Whoever has organised all this has dumped many tons of sand in the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens for a beach volleyball competition to take place.

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It's been a good day so far. Despite feeling a little under the weather. I'm taking lots of hot lemon drinks and cough medicene in a bid to be fit and healthy for the work summer ball later on. It's a full black tie do so I've hired a kilt for the evening, mine isn't ready yet so I got free hire. Always the best price to pay.I've also purchased a digital camera. It wasn't something I'd been

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I've got two brilliant links from the Scotsman.com website.The first is theEdinburgh Fight Video. Filmed by a very brave (or very foolish tourist) at the top of Fleshmarket Close on what looks like an average Saturday night. It features a group of typically charming neds kicking seven shades of shit out of each other. I'm guessing this is not the image of Edinburgh that the authorities would want

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Coo-ween of Hearts Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. Outside the Queens Hall, (until it mysteriously vanished), one of the many cows that have moo-ved into Edinburgh. It's udderly bonkers! (sorry).

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I've always been convinced that there a large amount of complete arseholes in the world. Today has not changed my mind. There has been a big effort made to cheer up the city and provide a bit of public art with the Cow Parade. It wasn't a big shock to see a couple of the cows had been daubed with graffiti. However it does piss me off that it has taken less than 24 hours for one of the cows to be

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Cows have invaded Edinburgh! 94 fibreglass cows have appeared around the city, it's only a matter of time before they take over.This may sound bizarre, but it is quite true. Edinburgh is the latest city to participate in the Cow Parade. All the cows have been decorated by artists and positioned in public spaces around the city centre. I'm on a mission to find, and photograph all 94. They're here

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Beltane, Fire Gate Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. It's been a busy week. Last Sunday spring officially sprung. This is celebrated every year in Edinburgh with the Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill. It was especially busy this year, with around 13,000 people on the hill to enjoy the festivities. It was as bonkers as ever. (But slightly busier). I did manage to get some good photos.

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I read some bad news about the Red Bull Flugtag today. It's been cancelled due to birds. Unfortunately the environmental imapact on the area was going to be too big for many of the wading birds in the Forth Estuary. It's a shame because I was looking forward to that.Thankfully I've come up with an even more bonkers plan for July. Myself and two of my workmates are going to enter as a team for the

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I'm halfway through the weekend and it's already been quite busy. For some reason I booked an appointment at the hairdressers for 9.50am. I'm not sure what I was thinking, I'm not normally up until the start of Football Focus. After having that done I picked up some slides, the film has been in my camera for months so it has pictures from Oslo and New Zealand. Before I left the house my free

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It's been another productive day. After my regular Sunday trip to the supermarket I took my bike wheel to be trued. It was a little warped and the guy in the shop wasn't sure if he could fix it. However when I returned to the shop he'd manage to make it almost perfect. It never will be perfect anyway. So for the sum of £7 the Bicycle Repair Man in Newington has helped me get my bike finished.

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Those of you who know me will realize by now that I have an eye for the more bizarre events that take place in the fine city of Edinburgh. It looks like there will not be a World Naked Bike Ride so I've looked for some other things to occupy my time. A couple have caught my eye. The Red Bull Flugtag is taking place at Dalmeny House in July. This is one of the most bonkers things ever devised.

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I've had a remarkably good and successful day today. After I dragged myself out of bed I headed for Halfords. I'd won some shopping vouchers at work and decided they would be well spent on bits for my bike. I had to change buses on the way so I dropped in to H+M and got myself a couple of t-shirts. At Halfords I purchased a tyre, pump, puncture repair kit, some brake cables, some oil, and a cycle

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Sadly our game against Swansea ended in defeat. We lost 2-1. Means we can concentrate on the league. Please feel free to think of any other cliches you think I should use. It has been a frustrating sort of a day all round. I didn't get to watch the game because my local pub "can't split the signal". I'm sure they have in the past, surely the technology can't be beyond the current staff. Then

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Today is the day of the Football League Trophy Final. Carlisle United have made it to the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff, it's becoming a bit of a habit. We face Swansea, who are in the division above us, as we attempt to win our first piece of silverware this season. We're still in with a good chance of winning the division title too. The match is live on Sky Sports at 1.30pm, I just have to

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Today has been a bit of a nightmare due to the council workers and bus company strike. 100,000 bone idle, whinging bastards, already on a cushy number, spent the day in bed. Apparently they are striking because they won't get to retire with a full pension at 60. The rest of us have to wait until 65, unless we finance it ourselves, and by the time I retire I'll be at least 68 before I get my full

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Spring has sprung. You can tell, the rain is warmer!There's not much to report, I'm not looking forward to getting to work tomorrow. A strike means that the biggest bus company in Edinburgh will have it's vehicles sitting idle and everyone will have to cram on to the handful of First Bus services that run through the city. It should be a complete nightmare getting to and from work. It all makes

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Dead pixels. The biggest pain in the arse about LCD technology. As I work in the industry I know it's simply not possible to guarantee that any LCD screen will be 100% perfect at the cost they are produced. What may seem like expensive technology is actually really cheap when you consider what an old fashioned tube TV or monitor cost a few years ago. I have an old tube TV, over 15 years old in

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Those bone idle bastards at Lothian Buses are on strike again. In the summer I was bemoaning the lack of work done by their drivers. Well yet again they have decided to walk out for a day, this time it's something to do with pensions. Since the local council own over half of Lothian Buses they're already going to be getting a much better deal than us poor sods who have to work in the private

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1142887760687285162006-03-21T08:48:00.000+12:002006-03-21T08:49:20.740+12:00

I think spring is supposed to spring tomorrow. You'd never guess from the weather though. My BBC weather widget shows a low of -7ºC for tomorrow, that's just highly depressing. I'm freezing my nuts off wondering when the weather will improve and wishing I was back in New Zealand. I don't think it ever gets this cold in Auckland. In about 6 weeks the Beltane Fire Festival is on and I hope the

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My iBook is proving to be a revelation. Everything is so easy and intuative. From time to time I've checked out the Mac 101 support page to see how I should do something. Everytime I check I wonder why I've bothered, the answer is always the easiest, most logical one. The one I would have thought of myself. I'm still in the process of transferring everything from my old Windows laptop, not

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1141415985098061552006-03-04T08:58:00.000+13:002006-03-04T08:59:45.150+13:00

At last! I'm finally writing this blog from a new computer. My 12" iBook G4 has arrived, and it is wonderful. I've been lusting after one of these for ages. I'm happy to say that it has exceeded my expectations too. No more Windows XP for me, no more confusing error messages, no more grumbling that my PC won't connect to my (very complicated) wireless network.I started to set up my iBook last

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Yet again I've not updated this for some time. I've been pretty busy over the last few weeks and have just returned from a trip to New Zealand.There's a lot to report so I may as well start with the important news.Amanda and I are now engaged. The wedding won't be until 2008, that gives us time to save up, weddings are rather expensive. We'll be getting married in New Zealand.My other ramblings

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I picked up on this story on Channel 4 News at the weekend and feel compelled to campaign against this insult to 5 million Scots.A "British Day" has been proposed to celebrate Britishness and the Union. The thinking behind seems to be that if the Americans can have 4th July then we can have something similar, even if it will be more reserved and very English. As this idea has been suggested by

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A couple of stories on the news tonight seem to confirm my suspicion that the world is quite absurd. Firstly the Scottish Socialist Party's, (Tartan Communists), mouthpiece Tommy Sheridan was on TV telling us that all our airports should be renamed. His suggestions were for names like William Wallace Airport, and Robert Burns Airport instead of Glasgow or Edinburgh. The logic behind this is that

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I've got to give a mention to the freecycle network. I joined a while ago because I think it's one of the greatest ideas ever. If you haven't seen it yet, it allows you to give away unwanted items to anybody who has a use for them. The only conditions are that it must be free and legal. It's a brilliant way of keeping stuff out of landfill. It gives a great sense of satisfaction giving stuff away

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They didn't use me on Demolition. I don't know why but I watched the whole series and I wasn't on. The building I nominated was on for a few seconds. (I'm not the only one who wants to see it gone!) I hope some of the architectural horrors get levelled, and I think the series will do some good if it raises awareness of what can be done to get rid of these eyesores.

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The first episode of Demolition was on Channel 4 last night. I wasn't on, but after a look a the series guide on the website I think I'll be on Tuesday's show. It's about the very worthy winner, Cumbernauld Town Centre. A whole town centre won as opposed to just one building, but if you've seen it you'll know why. I think that episode will focus on shopping centres as well so my nomination will

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Ancient TechnologyI'm quite pleased with myself today, though I really shouldn't be, as I managed to get the antique video recorder in the kitchen working. It's my job to know how these things work. I am technical support for a major electronics manufacturer. Tuning it in to the TV was easy, I followed the advice I give to customers every day. Tuning the channels into the VCR itself was a bit

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People who should be beaten with a big stick, repeatedly and mercilessly. (Part 1)Dog owners that allow there stinking canines to foul in the street then don't clean it up. I don't need to go any further with this do I?DemolitionIt starts at 8.05pm on Saturday 17th December, the 2nd programme is 8pm on Sunday 18th, then 8pm on Monday 19th, and the final show at 8pm on Tuesday 20th. I still don't

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1133907861055931922005-12-07T11:20:00.000+13:002005-12-16T10:39:34.690+13:00

15 seconds of fame!I've just spotted in the 'Demolition' in the TV listings. This is the programme that channel 4 asked me to appear on. I'm not sure exactly which show I'll be on, more about that when I know, but the series starts on 17 December. It's a Saturday night so I guess most will have something better to do.

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1133715442947397132005-12-05T05:08:00.000+13:002005-12-19T03:31:18.356+13:00

I've just returned from Oslo, a beautiful city. Walking through Glasgow to catch my train home made me feel slightly depressed. Scotland just seems incredibly gloomy compared to Norway. I'd thought the lack of light in Oslo would have made it the other way round. I'd gone to Oslo on an impulse when I'd managed to find tickets for 1p each way. I hadn't realised the downside of this is the prices

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I said in my last post that I would lambast the BBC anytime they annoyed me with their dumbed down reporting. Well here's the first one. The biggest news story of yesterday seemed to be the snow. You may not have noticed but it's winter. It snows in the winter. As usual this caused total chaos down south. My main gripe was the reporting of the snow in Scotland, we get loads of the stuff every

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It's been over a month since I added anything to these pages, this is mostly because my life has been pretty dull over the last few weeks. In a bid to liven it up a bit I made an impulse buy on the Internet, a return flight to Oslo. A little bit random I grant, but up to my usual standards of randomness. It was only 1p each way, plus tax. So I'm off to Norway for a couple of days in December. I'm

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1128859810303672762005-10-10T00:59:00.000+13:002005-10-10T01:10:12.403+13:00

I sometimes have to work on a Saturday and can't help noticing that my journey to work takes much less time. The lack of traffic knocks around 15 minutes off it. The traffic in Edinburgh can be total chaos, but only at certain times. During the week from about 8am it's nuts. Things quieten down a little during the day and by 7pm every third car is a taxi. At the weekend it's quiet in the morning

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I haven't put much on here for a while, but that's not for a lack of things to talk about. I just don't get around to updating as often as I should.Today after work I sat down to watch Channel 4 News whilst having my tea, as I always do, and was disgusted to see a report about Caterpillar. Another vast corporation that puts money before morals. Apparently Cat is symbolic to the Palestinians as

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1127751552510281452005-09-27T04:19:00.000+12:002005-09-27T04:31:14.930+12:00

Eilean Donan Castle 3Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. I got a new toy today, my slide & film scanner arrived. It's a pretty handy thing to have as I don't have a digital camera. Although it's not the best one available, it was only £45, it's good enough for adding photos to this website. I've posted a couple from my flickr pages.

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1127751516230287842005-09-27T04:18:00.000+12:002005-09-27T04:18:36.236+12:00

Fireworks Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings.

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1127336725299750282005-09-22T08:51:00.000+12:002005-09-22T09:05:25.330+12:00

As a connoisseur of bad football I feel well placed to comment on the Scottish League Cup. I'm watching extra time in the Celtic vs Falkirk cup tie and can't help wondering just how big the gulf between English League football and Scottish League football really is.The reason this is brought to the forefront of my mind is Falkirk's keeper, Matt Glennon. He's had a good game so far. He's let in

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1127245771994615042005-09-21T07:33:00.000+12:002005-09-21T07:49:32.020+12:00

This is my new great idea for the day. That everyone should be reasonable.The dictionary describes reasonable as :- Capable of reasoning; rational. Governed by or being in accordance with reason or sound thinking. Being within the bounds of common sense. Not excessive or extreme; fair. I don't think that any of that is to much to ask as a standard to live by.Throughout the course of my life I

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First of all I'd like to mention England's magnificent Ashes victory, the first time in more than 18 years. Last time we won the Ashes I was 11. It has been a enthralling summer of cricket, much more interesting than anything I've been doing. If only weekends were 5 days long so I could have watched it all. Anyway, congratulations to 'Freddie' Flintoff and the boys. Long may it continue.I arrived

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After the football last night I watched "“How to start your own country"” on BBC2. What a brilliant concept. King Danny was trying to get his newly formed country recognised by the UN without much success. They turned him down because he had no territory. But King Danny was not giving up. Sadly it was the last show in the series, but I'm sure King Danny will be back with us soon. A truly

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Sunday was the end of the Edinburgh International Festival, the Festival Fringe finished a few days ago. The end of the festivals means the chance to launch fireworks from the castle, this happens on a regular basis but it's always enjoyable. Anywhere within the line of sight of the castle is good for viewing and this year I watched from North Bridge. It's always a bit quieter than Princes Street

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Recommended website for everyone. You may have seen the aerial photos from Digital Globe on the news recently. The site includes images of Hurricane Katrina and the Boxing Day Tsunami among other things.

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I want to introduce a new form of motorsport to the world. Bus Racing. It involves regular service buses, single or double deck, the greenways of Edinburgh, and putting your life in someone else's hands. Now that I have to commute to work everyday I've had to start getting the bus to the outskirts of town. Edinburgh bus drivers seem to have two speeds, stop or full tilt. This can be slightly

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Mini03 Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. That's my old Mini 1000,(KSW 799P) the best car I've ever owned. Sadly I no longer have it, I sold it several years ago because I'd just got myself a mortgage. (bad idea) If anyone knows where it is, whether it's still on the road or gone to the great scrapyard in the sky, let me know.

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004-20A-school of art Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. I got some photos back from my holiday in Scotland today. I've posted a few, there's nothing spectacular but they're not bad either. The photos of Glasgow City Chambers show just how beautiful it was that day. Cloudless blue sky, not a common sight in Glasgow. Sadly not all of the trip was like that. There's also a photo of Amanda,

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Where to start? I said it would be a while before I had a chance to put my thoughts on here again. Amanda, my girlfriend, has returned to New Zealand now. This does leave me with time on my hands. She arrived here in July in the middle of the Lothian Bus drivers strike, however things weren't as bad as I'd expected from my last entry. I got a taxi to the hire car depot, which Enterprise

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Those ungrateful bastards who drive for Lothian Buses have decided they don't get paid enough. They get paid well, I recently applied for a job with them. Over £20,000 a year for blue collar work, who are they kidding. And most of them are rude and miserable. Anyway the upshot of all this is a series of bus strikes in Edinburgh. This normally wouldn't bother me but I have to get to the airport

ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16395086820708222714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534312.post-1121524996165649332005-07-17T02:39:00.000+12:002005-07-17T02:43:16.210+12:00

Have you ever heard of a photographer called Spencer Tunick? Well check out the link. I'd heard of him before and wish I'd known he was shooting in the UK. Sadly I've missed the chance to get involved with the shoot in Gateshead tomorrow. But I have signed up just in case he ever comes to Edinburgh.

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It's been another busy week for me. On Friday morning I recorded my piece for Channel 4 television. It took about 20 minutes to do. I just had to rant about the St James Centre whilst stood outside it. I'm sure it'll only be about 30 seconds once it's all edited. The series, Demolition, is due for air sometime in October. They'll let me know exactly when I'm on. Watch this space.On Friday evening

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I often describe my life as "a bit random". Many people wonder what this means. This morning I was asked to appear on a Channel 4 television programme. Now if that's not 'a bit random' I don't know what is. I have know experience of being on TV. I can barely even remember e-mailing channel 4 about the programme. And when I sent the e-mail I never imagined that it would lead to a possible TV

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With Edinburgh all over the news this week I've plenty to write about. Before all the events surrounding the G8 summit I had to work in Glasgow. I managed to land a job that got me in to the Coldplay gig free, I don't actually like Coldplay but I thought I may as well take the opportunity. I worked behind the massive bar that had been set up to cope with the insatiable thirst of 20,000 gig goers.

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I've been enjoying the warm, sunny weather here in Scotland for the last few days, in fact after I've written this brief entry I'll be heading out into the sunshine. But the unusually nice weather, although a surprise in itself, isn't the reason I've sat down at the computer.Yesterday I got hit by a car, not hard, not enough to cause injury, but I was actually hit by some stupid, fat woman in a

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Well it's been an entertaining morning. Not sure who for though. In my ongoing quest to find useful employment I've had to do the usual round of interviews and stuff. But this morning I had my driving ability scrutinized. Only to be expected if you apply for a job as a driver. However I haven't driven anything in 9 months so I was a little nervous. The last vehicle I drove was a Honda Integra,

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UK at night Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. This is an amazing photo that I found on the the Science Photo Library. I love the way it shows how we all live so close together. That bright band in the middle of Scotland is almost all of our population. Most of the country is empty. I like that about Scotland, most of the nice bits are the empty bits.

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1. Gore Tex2. Electric Toothbrush *NEW ENTRY*3. eBay4. Moist Toilet Roll5. Swiss Army KnifeI was inspired to put a Nick Hornby/High Fidelity style top 5 list by the purchase of an electric toothbrush. Have you tried one yet? I was amazed. I've been thinking of getting one for a while and I needed a new toothbrush anyway. The deciding factor was the price. Only £3.99! A regular toothbrush costs a

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Sadly the World Naked Bike Ride is not going ahead in Edinburgh, there's one in London as well as many other places around the world. It seems that the Make Poverty History march is the focus of protest in Edinburgh. Now that Sir Bob Geldof and Live 8 are involved there will be many more people here. I'll see you all there, only a month to go.

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Not much to report at the moment, but I thought I should write something. I'm stuck indoors because the rain is pouring down and it is an especially grim day. I'm still not working, hence hanging around the house. It's a shame, yesterday wasn't bad, but Monday was glorious. It was a productive Bank Holiday for me too. I went into the garden with the loppers to cut back an overgrown tree that has

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Proof that the Royal Mail in Edinburgh are useless was published in the local paper today. Postwatch, the consumer watchdog, have eight out of the ten postal districts with the worst service are in Edinburgh. Not that I'm surprised, although I was surprised that my postcode wasn't mentioned. I guess it was 11th. It doesn't really help since the Royal Mail do bugger all to help when they do lose

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I saw a really cool looking little car while I was walking around Edinburgh today. All I could tell from the brief look as it passed was that it was a Lancia. Lancia haven't imported cars into the UK for years so it must have been from somewhere in Europe. I did try to find some information about it but Lancia.com is only available German, French, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, and, of

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A little while ago I was talking about upgrading my aging laptop. Well the upgrades are finally complete, and under my £100 budget. For only £92.50 I have quadrupled the hard drive space, have the ability to write CDs and play DVDs, installed USB 2.0 ports, and doubled the RAM.A couple of lessons I learnt on the way. Don't bother with a CD Re-writer. My new external hard drive is tiny, light and

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One news article in The Scotsman caught my eye this morning. It appears those thieving bastards at the Royal Mail are each going to get a £1000 bonus. I just can't believe that such an incompetent bunch of halfwits are going to get extra money for not delivering my mail. I was appalled when I found out that the Royal Mail operate a bonus scheme that dishes out new cars and holidays, never mind

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Congratulations to Carlisle United who won last nights play off final. League football again next season. I'm glad to say I managed to see the match live on Sky TV in my local pub. I was very surprised to be joined by 2 other Carlisle fans. As ever with Carlisle it was exciting, but largely because of what was at stake rather than the football. We're up and that's what counts after all. I don't

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nz093 Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. All my photos that should have had their own space on my website are now upladed on to my Flickr Photostream. This will be the place to go for my photos, I hardly have enough room for text documents left on my free website. One of these days I'll pay for some webhosting and consolidate everything on to one server. But until then I'll just use

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nz067 Originally uploaded by Mr Munnings. New Zealand. Beautiful isn't it. I should have added these ones onto the website ages ago. I found them languishing in a folder in my hard drive. Thought I'd put them on flickr, saves me having to make web pages and stuff. I've got a couple of rolls of film to collect next week so I should have some more photos to add then. Because I'm not working

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I have just watched the well known conservationist David Bellamy on Channel 4 putting forward the argument that Global Warming is not caused by carbon emissions. He has suggested that the worlds glaciers are not retreating and that the ice caps are getting thicker. This man makes my blood boil. The environmentalist George Monbiot was also on the show to debunk his claims. Read his article in the

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The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy.As I've not had any work for a little while now I need to find cheap, or free, ways to fill my days. Most of the time I walk, read, and surf the Internet. However the local cinemas have cheapskate days. Today is the turn of the Cameo to offer cheap tickets, so I decided to go and see The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. Well I'm glad I didn't pay full price

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I now have a bit more information about the World Naked Bike Ride.Saturday 11 June 2005 is the second annual World Naked Bike Ride! Protest against oil dependency! Celebrate the power and individuality of our bodies! This June, UK cyclists will participate in the second annual World Naked Bike Ride! Last year 120 UK riders participated, and no one was arrested. This year's

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