Archive for November, 2007

Scotty Pro solar battery charger

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

I spotted this on I Want One Of Those. It’s the Scotty Pro solar charger from German company Solarc.
Pop this little solar charging beauty in direct sunlight for a few hours and it will charge up its rechargeable AA batteries enabling it to power up your mobile phone, games console, MP3 player, digital camera or […]

Lounge music interpretation of Cannibal Corpse song “Rancid amputation”

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Now, I have to admit that I don’t list Cannibal Corpse amongst my favourite bands, but this video is utter genius.
WARNING: Don’t watch/listen to it if you are easily offended.
Cannibal Corpse’s last album “Kill” has one of the most tame titles, or indeed covers, of any of their albums in their 17 year career. Who […]

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 fixed our 404

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Before: 404 Page shown in Firefox 2.0.0.8

After: 404 Page shown in Firefox 2.0.0.9
Remember that problem we had a couple of weeks back when we updated to Firefox 2.0.0.8: Latest version of Firefox broke our 404 page?
Well, it turns out that it was indeed a problem with Firefox 2.0.0.8. The good news, though, is that […]

Bike lights and the law

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

After a couple of weeks away from cycling — having been recovering from a bad cold — it’s been great to get back on my saddle and pedal around the beautiful Fife countryside of an evening. At least, I think it’s beautiful countryside: I can’t actually see much of it since the clocks have […]