Philip Bragg

I've just remembered Alan, who made violins in his cottage. I can't remember why my family knew him, though. He used to write to us and I have no recollection of meeting him, just this memory of being told he lived in a Welsh valley and made fine instruments. maps.app.goo.gl/Kt3GVh1hqqfU...

Yay, stupid car bluetooth module we don't use has died and the car's POST notices it and flashes the odometer to show something is wrong. Apparently I can "unmap" that but I don't have the necessary tool. *sigh*

Sudden Thameside Radio flashback, perhaps from spotting The Intrepid Birdman driving his crazy car in town the other week. I can never remember the title or artists for this song so I usually find it by searching for Googling "woman running through a maze"

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Love to scroll Facebook and have a video autoplay a horrific building collapse. I wish I didn't feel obliged to be on that platform.

Hello, electronics people, look at this lovely oscillator! (now in revised, enhanced form)

R8 needs selecting or perhaps a partial trimmer resistor, to get stability across all frequencies. The wrong value can make the ALC hunt, which causes "squegging". It'll be within a hundred ohms of 500Ω though, I reckon. Usual gain in the control loop/saturation of control loop trade.

Hello, electronics people, look at this lovely oscillator! (now in revised, enhanced form)

Already seen an error in the schematic, R6 should be 1k2

Penge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHI...

Tempted by these new, slimmer quartz watches?

Back in 1980 the "British National Radio & Electronics School" , based in Jersey for some reason, would sell you a correspondence course that included a section on "How to do programs".

Computers and their so-called language.

Back in 1980 the "British National Radio & Electronics School" , based in Jersey for some reason, would sell you a correspondence course that included a section on "How to do programs".

I've suddenly learned why Green Lanes is plural, why Harringay and Harringey are both right and what the Harringay Ladder is. That is all. Too much information in a short time.

I have been made aware, once more, of the parasites preying on people who don't check whether they're on the Land Registry site or a third party that'll charge them an extra £100 or so for the same information. I don't have the energy to be angry about this.

And then I get to explain that the infrequently used HP inkjet printer is printing blank sheets of paper because it's out of black but it doesn't know it's out of black because the black has probably dried up so I email it to myself so I can print on our ancient budget colour laser.