Existence has a kind of hum to it, a bit like a tuning fork, a background frequency that all that exists hangs off of. Everything abides to natures being, everything goes with the flow… except us! Society in itself has disfigured, too many people are just wrong, the harmony that is essential in our unification with the root chord of nature is off key. Unfortunately the trend is set to get worse, I am not a doom mongerer, I am a realist! I have always been confused by people with big ideas for the future, which in itself is not a bad thing, but I always aspire to the inevitable, the society that has evolved around us is fracturing and will collapse. That melody that once sang out in my years of innocence has faded into the distance, with only an occasional echo in times of felicity. But everyday I strive pointlessly to get it all back in tune…
November 30th, 2008
Getting a bit fed up of blogging… I seem to have lost the enthusiasm. Maybe I need to do something worth writing about. Oh well…
November 27th, 2008
Pausing for thought early on a Sunday morning I consider the connection of events and circumstances that put me here. Fate is a funny thing, I strive to accept it and move on and don’t yield to the sometimes seductive pull of self-pity. After all portraying myself as a victim will only threaten the future as uncertain as it is. My overall outlook is positive, I’m very fortunate in lots of ways just a bit unlucky at times, my biggest failing is motivation, I draw that from motivated people and if they are nowhere to be seen I tend to stagnate. But when I have that alter-ego to bolster me I can be very constructive. So I have kicked and screamed a bit recently for that attention I need to progress and so far, things are going well…
November 23rd, 2008
I’ve been slack! Things kind of uneventful so had no motivation to scrawl all my ramblings here. I finished that course at the Product Development Center last night, got a couple of books and a certificate. Oddly the guy, Martin Bates who ran the course visited my work today with a couple of other guys doing electronic degrees, he popped into the electronic department where I work and we all had a good natter about the things we do… strange. Looking at houses with Kayleigh as feeling the need to move asap, but the inevitable Christmas period looms! Decided I shall park my car up with a SORN declaration when the tax runs out as I can cycle/train/walk to work, It’s 15mins to the station, 20mins on the train and a half hour walk to work at the other end, will also save me money. Well that’s it really, in a nutshell…
November 20th, 2008
The European Union Commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, “S” will be used instead of the soft “C”. Sertainly sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard “C” will be replaced with “K”. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters will have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when “the troublesome “Ph” will be replased with “F”. This will make words like “Fotograf 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “E’s” in the laguag is disgrasful, and they to would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “Z” & “W” with,” V”
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “O” kan be dropd from vords Containing “OU” and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer ve vil hav a reli sensible riten styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil hav finali kum tru!
November 8th, 2008
Wednesday I began a course in microcontroller embedded design run by The Product Development Centre (PDC) who support businesses, designers and engineers with their understanding in rapid product development at a seemingly misplaced venue called The Innovation Centre, a paradox in the cultural vacuum that is St. Leonards-on-Sea. The building itself is specifically designed to help firms with an innovative approach to business grow and thrive. In the building are offices, studios and workshops, all fully equipped including meeting rooms and a reception, although the receptionist on duty when I attended was a sour faced old cow who was obviously not getting any. The course continues for a further 4 weeks presenting microcontroller circuit design and simulation using a software package called Proteus VSM, this uses an innovative method of allowing you to design a circuit and write the processor code together and then run it in real time, simulating its function. 
The PDC also have a Rapid Prototying area, a subject I have touched on before, click here to read, I got to see a Rapid Prototype machine or 3D printer in action, at which point I proved what a Geek I am and videoed it on my phone, due to poor resolution and reflections from the door screen though, it’s very bad quality so I haven’t uploaded it. The course is funded by Brighton University and the lecturer is a Martin Bates who is an author of several books on programming and interfacing microcontrollers, he has also introduced the foundation degree to us which I will be seriously considering…maybe.
October 26th, 2008
October 24th, 2008
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October 18th, 2008
Ok, I am a fat git it is official, weighing in at 105.7 Kilos that’s 16 and a half stone! Even though everyone seems to be saying I don’t look like a Lard Arse my Body Mass Index (BMI) is 30.21, anything between 30 and 39.9 is considered obese. My Ideal weight for my height is between 65 and 85kg… Hmmm, that aint gonna happen. After receiving test results from my last visit to hospital saying I have high cholesterol; high blood pressure along with raised liver enzymes ALT and Gamma G.T. on top of being a bit of a bloater, I thought it might be about time to hit the gym, cut out crap food and find something else to do in my spare time other than getting pissed! So 3 and a half weeks into my mission I’ve put on weight! WTF? I find this a little difficult to understand and if anybody else says to me ‘Well muscle weighs more than fat don’t you know!’ I will push them in front of a bus. Anyway I am tracking my results on a spreadsheet and the current trendline puts me at 20 stone for the new year, if the results become at all interesting I may post them here for no other reason other than to make it seem worthwhile bothering to start it in the first place. So all I can do now is continue as I am and hope for more positive results very soon, time will reveal all.
October 16th, 2008
Cruising down the M4 towards South Wales on Friday night all was well, the fore-warning of hold ups displayed on motorway signs apparently a left over from an earlier rush hour well behind us, Jade was snoozing and the radio was low, all was cozy; in an instant the engine noise changed form a well tuned purr to a Grunty Roar! I pulled over on the hard-shoulder to investigate, a weld had broken on the new exhaust and the pipe was just dangling below a nice big hole in the engine block. So with another 110 miles to go I proceeded gingerly at a reduced speed of 70mph and increased volume of 120dB. I was worried the lack of back pressure from the detached exhaust system may upset the mechanics of the engine at such a prolonged and sustained speed but we made it, although 25 minutes later than planned and attracting more odd looks from motorists and drunk pedestrians than were necessary.
I have found an autoparts place in Cardiff that has my exhaust in stock! (Gasp!!!) Though slightly expensive I expect to get a refund from the Unipart center in Hastings where I originally bought the one that woke up the entire population of Caerphilly at 2 o’clock on Saturday morning. I can’t pick it up till Monday morning so I will have to ring work and explain..ooops!!! Initiative will come into play to get the job done, I need to get the car up on ramps that at present don’t exist, luckily I carry my own tools with me for such occasions but I know the nuts on the engine block are an odd size and I don’t have a socket to fit, hmmm. I expect to be back on the South Coast by the evening as I need to take my guitar round Chains and teach him a few learning techniques, may show him some stuff on the guitar too 😉
October 12th, 2008
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