Random Ramblings

Car maintenance

Posted by on January 28, 2012 at 12:05 am

This morning I planned to do some simple stuff on the car.  Maintenance has never been an issue for me and I’ve been working on engines since I was about six, to this should have been a piece of cake.  What I wanted to do was: Change the air filter Change the fuel filter Change [...]

What is ‘SFW’?

Posted by on October 25, 2011 at 3:48 pm

I’ve just been updating my photography blog, a site I describe as “not entirely SFW” in the header, and it struck me just how arbitrary a definition that is. SFW – ‘safe for work’ if you don’t know the acronym – is by no means an absolute anywhere, and varies wildly from place to place. [...]

The end of an era

Posted by on October 6, 2011 at 9:20 am

I have been sitting at my keyboard for some time now trying to think of a suitable way to start this article.  All the obvious ‘great man’ openers seem wrong somehow, and will be done far better by people who actually knew him, so it is left to the rest of us to comment on [...]

Just rediscovered…

Posted by on February 7, 2011 at 5:00 pm

I’d forgotten I had this blog site.  Now I know it’s here I’ll start adding things to it.