One Good Turn….
After a plaintive cry for help in the local media, yesterday I visited Keith just along the road from me. He had been having problems with his wireless broadband connection and I’d offered to help solve them.
Turned out to be down to a Netgear configuration programme being used instead of the Zero Configuration thing in XP so it was soon solved and a reliable connection to the router is now in place… well, at least I haven’t heard of any problems with his system so far!
During the fix we had a general chat and while I was rambling on about my interests, I happened to mention astronomy and the local observatory – it turns out Keith is quite good friends with Sir Patrick Moore.
Anyhow, on to the point of the post! Later yesterday, after a very pleasant Bank Holiday walk around Cowes, we got back home to find a book on the doorstep and not just any old book either, it was The Data Book of Astronomy by Patrick Moore!
So there it is, I fixed Keith’s PC as a favour and he (well I have to assume it was him as there was no note with it) has given me a very useful book for my growing astronomy library. Thanks Keith…
Filed under: Astronomy, Hardware, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
