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Now I want one of these. Silly ewt. Not now! Even if I could justify taking money from the RESP for it, which I'm not sure I can, I don't really have the cashflow just at the moment.

Still, it's something to save up for. With that sort of battery life it might even be useful, but if the battery doesn't do as well as that, spares are available. Or maybe I will actually get around to making some sort of wind-up thing.

I don't think a 70CT would quite fit the bill, though. Although they are all teh cheep, and would be great for playing around with windy-up chargers and the like.

The Bounty Continues

( cut for the squeamish wimps among you )

I am ready to go home. It's a nice feeling; last year I didn't really want to go back to halls. I'm ready to go home and have a shorter commute (although I'll still end up spending significant amounts of time on trains). I'm ready to go home and start gardening. I'm ready to go home and not worry about walking/feeding/praising the dog. I'll miss the cats... but Black Kitten and Mitzy will come visit once I'm home, I'm sure. I'm going home on Monday. Hooray! Home! I like our little house.

In other news, my dad (come on, you don't think I read El Reg?) has sent me this link to an article on Thames Online wifi. Interesting. Especially if I get Bricklet working with the wireless network card. Especially if I'm actually close enough to the river to use it. Hmmm. I've signed up for the free trial, in any case. This means I need to sort out some sort of wireless before April to see if it actually works, and that means I need to get my finger out and fix Bricklet.

I need a "geek" icon. Or maybe a "notageek" icon.

Two Ideas - one I will implement, and one I will not.

I was thinking the other day that it would be neat to read various London papers for a week at a time and then criticise them, in depth. This would work for magazines as well. For example, if I read The Economist I tend to end up shouting at it. I certainly shout at the Metro, but that's to be expected. I also shout at The Ecologist, the New Statesman, and nearly everything else I read, for being biased one way or another and not presenting information well. I shout at the New Scientist for not being complete enough, but probably in that case the problem is that I ought to be reading scientific journals or summat to get the level of information I would like to have. I'm not thinking of ranting about every article in every periodical for evar, I'm thinking of short snapshots.

Maybe someone else already does this in a blog and I don't know about it. I genuinely do not have the time and will not have the time for several years to come.

The second idea I might get around to. Those big catering-sized metal drums of vegetable oil are a great size for huge plant pots, and there are lots of them around on garbage night in any restaurant district (I see them in Greenwich fairly regularly, and Bethnal Green, and so on). They look a bit grotty if you only have one of them as a plant pot but having several that are all the same size and approximate same design would work quite well, I think. So, at some point, I will get one and see if I can get the end off to make a plant pot. If that works, I shall go on a raid and get LOTS of them. I'll be planting some perennials I want to take with me when I leave, see.

Okay, I'm off to find a squirrel-sized shovel.