Month: March 2014
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ABCON® PostShip® Parcel Scales Review
Preface This post describes: The design, usage and benefits of ABCON® PostShip® parcel scales.
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Flash Mob Opened New Forecourt at Derby Train Station
The Flash Mob Danced on The New Forecourt On 16th April 2013 Derby celebrated by way of dance to an appropriate tune “The Loco-Motion”. The dance was performed by a Flash Mob at the opening of the new Derby Train Station Forecourt. This happened after months of disruption and a lot of money spent. See the short portion…
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We Have Another Dwarf Planet
Dwarf Planet 2012VP113 Astronomers have found another dwarf planet in the Solar System. This is a dwarf planet and it doesn’t have a real name yet. It just has a number ‘2012 VP113’ as do so many dwarf planets in the region of space occupied by Pluto. It doesn’t seem long ago that there was just…
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Kuiper and Oort Objects
Here is a poster of Kuiper and Oort Objects This poster/wall chart was produced by SPACE.COM as a quick guide to Kuiper and Oort Objects. Knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud is sparse but it is known that some objects have very eccentric orbits. I think we can expect many more objects…
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Dwarf Planets In The Solar System
There is a new class of objects in the Solar System – Dwarf Planets – which now includes Pluto. See the poster below from SPACE.COM. Since this poster was produced there has been an addition – Sedna. Take a look at Kuiper and Oort Objects. Reference Source Space.com: All about our solar system, outer space…
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CycloCable Gets Bikes Up That Hill
CycloCable We all know it’s a bit of a pain cycling up steep hills especially on our journey to work, but CycloCable gets bikes up that hill in Trondheim, Norway. This latest version installed in 2013 replaced the prototype Trampe Bicycle Lift installed in 1993 by Jarl Wanwik. This is how the Norwegians do it.…
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Fixing Shelf Battens To Old Walls
Preface This post describes: How I spent a day fixing shelf battens for two shelves in a house. The walls were old and not solid brick as expected. The walls crumbled when I drilled into them so I had to repair them and drill again.
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Cosmic Inflation and Expansion of The Universe
This Poster Describes Cosmic Inflation and Expansion of The Universe I’m sure we’re a long way from hearing the last on Cosmic Inflation and Expansion of The Universe, but here is a SPACE.COM chart briefly explaining inflation of the universe from a pinpoint to its present day size. On 30th January 2015 Space.com announced: Inflation…
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New One Pound Coin in 2017
Why A New One Pound Coin? Due to excessive counterfeiting of the existing one pound coin The Royal Mint has decided to introduce a new one pound coin design, in 2017, with new security features: “It will be constructed from two different coloured metals and contain an iSIS security feature – a revolutionary new high security coinage currency…
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Bank Machines Will Use Windows XP Beyond The MS Deadline
Well, well, well, whose not keeping on top of things then. It looks like all the major banks. This article from ITPRO taken from Reuters points out that some major banks will not have updated their Automatic Telling Machines to Windows 7 by 8th April 2014. This is Microsoft’s published deadline after which there will…
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Are Goldfinches Eating Nyjer Seed? Yes!
Cleaning My Feeder Spring 2014 is on the way and I want to see goldfinches eating nyjer seed again. So after a wet winter I have cleaned my bird feeders. I’ve only had a Nyjer Seed feeder for two years and have kept it out during both winters. I might not do that next winter…
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We Make Earwax? What’s That All About?
What Is Earwax? I’ve often wondered what is earwax (otherwise known as cerumen) all about but never specifically investigated it. Well today I just happened across this article on the BBC News website in the Health section and now I am the wiser. It’s entitled: ‘Secretion secrets: things you didn’t know about earwax’. It discusses…
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Airlander Airship v Goodyear Airship
Airlander Airship or Goodyear Airship? The Airlander airship gets competition from another airship making its move, the Goodyear Dirigible airship making its move. It’s 246 feet long, 50 feet longer than previous models, and is dirigible (it has a frame and is not just a balloon). See my other Airlander post Airship Airlander – Made in England.…
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Make Google The Home Page In Windows 7
Introduction A friend found they had got MSN as their Home page and asked me how they could make Google the Home page in Windows 7. What They Saw I haven’t seen their screen but I would expect it to look like the screen shot above, when they select their Home page, with MSN showing. Here I…
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Airship Airlander – Made in England
Introduction This airship Airlander, the longest aircraft in the world at roughly 91m (300ft), from the US military airship Airlander project, has been brought to Cardington, Bedfordshire, England (home of the R101) for further development by a British company who built it in the first place. In fact the development is taking place in the same…
