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Wow – what a experiment!

torarne — Mon, 15 May 2006 08:27:53 +0000

This would really go down well in our street!

High Voltage Tesla Coil:

MAKE Flickr photo pool member Tesla1000 has a ton of photos of experiments with high voltage – I like this photo of one of the experiments in the suburbs. Link.

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Sports fishing

torarne — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:37:27 +0000

I spotted the following in The Times’s RSS feed this morning

New anglers cross a fine line:
Continental immigrants, not understanding the British sport of catching fish and putting them back, have been illegally eating carp and pike….

and I do sympathise. Back in Norway I always enjoyed fishing, and grew up fishing in the sea, lakes and rivers, although my favourite type of fishing is for trout in inland lakes. And of course we cooked and eat the fish we catch.

It was therefore a bit of a culture shock when I came to the UK on a boy scout trip as a 17 year old, and was taken out by the familiy I stayed with for “a spot of fishing”, and discovered that the british definition of fishing and mine were worlds apart.

I had never seen anyone taking along so much kit to catch a fish and then throw it back in again! Hm! So I am afraid that I’ve not done any fishing in the 8 years we’ve lived in the UK.

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Why this blog

torarne — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:00:56 +0000

This particular blog started life as something to test Trackbacks from b2evolution and Ecto with, so you will need to go to my main blog (see the side panel for links) if you’d really like to read something I have blogged.

Emap audience test

torarne — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:28:45 +0000

This is the link to the new movie

Gus’s entry

torarne — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:48:59 +0000

And this is a weblog entry of Gus’s video

Emap test movie

torarne — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:37:11 +0000

This is a movie

Sky plus – at last

torarne — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:10:35 +0000

It’s taken us a long time to get on to the PVR bandwagon – as we are not really big consumers of TV. And all we have is a old 21“ TV in the living room.
But saying that – we do have satellite TV (Sky) and most available channels except for the sports channels. What has started to annoy me is that with all this phenomenal selection of material, there is rarely anything I’d like to see, and what I’d like to see I tend to forget about. So I have for a long time been looking at something like a Tivo or a Sky+ box to enable me/us to set up a recording schedule when we first hear about something we’d like to see, and then timeshift the viewing to the weekend.
But we have never managed to get around to this, until we started getting problems with our satellite reception a week or so ago. The problem is either in the decoder box, or in the alignment of the dish – or both. And as the dish is mounted on the chimney, there is absolutely no way I’m going up there to investigate.
So the easiest way out was actually to order Sky+ including the PVR – as Sky will then turn up to modify the dish, and deliver a new decoder in one fell swoop. And yesterday we ordered this – with a date for installation being given as this Friday!
We ordered the smallest of the Sky+ boxes – as the theory is that we can use the Elgato box to archive away to our computers any programs we’d like to keep, if we indeed would like to keep anything at all above and beyond the 40 hours the box will record on it’s internal harddisk.
As a sideeffect of this The Gizzer will get the old Sky box in his room, and thereby full control of his own viewing. We may never see him again….
[composed and posted with ecto]
Technorati Tags: osx, PVR

Technorati Tags: osx, PVR

Hello world!

torarne — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:21:56 +0000

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!