Astronomy and Cameras

Came across this very useful site while looking for odd camera bits for astronomy. As well as budget webcam mods, Astronomiser has some very useful add ons for Canon digital SLR cameras too.

Firefox 2

Mozilla have responded to the “threat” from Microsoft by releasing “Firefox 2″. You can get your free copy here or by clicking the link lower down in the right hand side bar of this page. Strange thing is that the normal “Check for Updates” option on the Help menu of my old version didn’t inform [...]

Happy birthday to me….

“Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so” Douglas Adams, 1952-2001The last year has probably passed by faster than any I have known. Yes, we’ve been busy and there have been a lot of changes but for goodness sake…. It only seems a few weeks ago that we were preparing for a move out of Swindon [...]

Golf Changes

If you play golf you’ll know what a frustrating pursuit it can be. I think, in the last 6-8 months, I have played well about twice. Things started to go wrong when I took a couple of lessons and it was suggested that I make some fairly major changes to basic things like my grip [...]

Advertising

I am sure you’ve noticed the Google advertising bar on the right side of the blog, well, it’s been replaced! The Google thing was supposed to modify itself and to show sites that were connected with the content of this site. I have no real idea why, but it never worked. All I ever saw [...]

Overseas Tour 2006

Friday sees our golf group off for the 2006 Tour. Unfortunately there is no chance of me winning as my game is not at its best at the moment. Anyhow, we are heading off across the water to stay a couple of nights at The Bell Inn, Brook, Hants. We have three games booked; Dunwood [...]