Aliens ate my shed
Slightly off-the-wall experiment with a pair of broken mannequins and some cheap but effective RGB LED lighting.
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Roamer Ten lit by laser gobo
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Fixing Flatpak public key error
I had a pretty grim time recently trying to fix a “Flatpak public key error” on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Well KDE Neon to be more precise, but it’s underlying operating system is Ubuntu. I had been attempting a “user” mode installation of an application via Flatpak with no success. I installed Flatpak in the normal…
Merry Christmas 2001
“Hiding up the Chimney”- 2001 Christmas card. by Sarah Keen.
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Vista woes might lead us to better things
We bought a couple of IBM Lenovo 3000C200 laptop PCs in 2007 May. These are fairly average 1700MHz laptops purchased from a UK supplier called eBuyer for around 300 quid a throw. These came preloaded with the basic version of Windows Vista. To describe Vista’s performance as dismal would be understatement of the year. Problems…
Birmingham 1996 – a 35mm film retrospective
I found myself stuck in heavy traffic the M6 on the Gravelly Hill Interchange – AKA Spaghetti Junction. Radio said I could be stuck up there for hours. So I exited the M6 motorway at junction 6 and turned onto the A38(M), what they laughingly call the “Aston Expressway”. That was bumper-to-bumper too. So I…
Blown lithium battery
A lot of buzz on the interwebs about Samsung mobile phone batteries. Whilst Samsung devices do seem particularly problematic, it can be an issue with lithium polymer batteries generally – especially the super skinny type. They really don’t like getting hot. I confess I documented this repair rather badly but I did remember to capture…
