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Got a call from the sister in law last week, her Dyson DC07 was as dead as a door nail,
When I arrived at her house, it had decided to work, well sort, sounding like a arc welder and blowing thick black smoke out of the motor exhaust

Time to get the toolkit out, 45 minutes later o have a YDK motor in my hands with a badly damaged commutator, which has also destroyed the brushes.
Ebay shops provided a suitable , genuine Dyson replacement motor for ??27 +P&P. I must say Dyson rocks, you can buy ANYTHING as a spare part, motors, switches any plastic part…

Now the fun part, Re-assembling and large box full of plastic parts and a bag of screws,
This web site provided some useful information,
The only tricky bit was getting the rubber encased motor back in to its plastics housing, it is a very tight fit. After 15 minutes of pushing and shoving, I gave up and got the washing up liquid out.
Washing up liquid makes a superb lubricant in this situation as it dries !!!
So that is the motor back in the casing, just the plastic multicoloured jigsaw puzzle left

Took just over an hour to reassemble in the end,

So one happy sister in law and one fully repaired DC07 for less than ??35

Wifi V wireless AV senders

been having lots of fun with wireless networks of late, so I have but this together

Water Sheep, Lost in translation

Language translation can often be an entertaining process.
One such example is Hydraulic Ram, as used by lots of high end machinery like JCBs etc, can become “water sheep”
Then I get emailed this by a friend, who received if from a Chinese consumer electronics company, trying to draft their warranty terms and conditions

I am translating the warranty to Chinese now, and have a question:

* what is “Cosmetic damage” ?

I think “cosmetic” is some thing that Girls often use for make-up, like, to make themself more beautiful or maintain their skin, do you think I have the right understanding?

So “Cosmetic damage” should be “Damage caused by using cosmetic “, is it right?

Hopefully i will stop laughing by this time next week

Upgrade 2.5.1

WP 2.5.1 upgrade installed

Mary had a little lamb ,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
He followed her to school one day;
That was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play;
To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out,
But still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about
Till Mary did appear.
“Why does the lamb love Mary so?”
The eager children cry;
“Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know,”
The teacher did reply.

WHO ????

Well they have been filming bits of the 2008 Christmas special Dr Who in Gloucester for a few days now.
So today they have converted the alleyway at the front of the old Telephone Exhange building into two scenes. The first a small old market place with lots of stalls and stuff hanging from cross wires, the second seems to be a basic front door scene,

Shame I can’t stay around to watch, Cracking view from the 1st floor conferance room.

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Hide your dodgey data right under their nose

I read an article some while ago about the police had just caught on to the fact the sat navs area good place to “hide” SD or other small memory cards, will the sorn off USB cable is even better

Hide a ultra small USB stick inside a broken USB cable, and who is even going to try and plug it in

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/17/sawed_off_usb_key/

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Gas Guzzling 4x4s

When is a Gas Guzzling 4×4 not a Gas Guzzling 4×4
When it’s a Honda CRV, the book on the CRV says it will do 52 MPG extra Urban,
It is not often you get close to the top MPG in any car,

After a Trip to Chester town center from Gloucester and then back I was very impressed with this

Just in case anyone wondered what I actually do for a living, I build world class web hosting platforms. We are talking up to a Terabyte of content and 8-10 Million hits per day. So when a friend of a friend said he was having trouble with a site getting 190,000 hit per day, i did a detailed analysis and made some recomendations.

Then I hear they have been and done something completely different, and possibly daft.

Well I say good luck to him

This mornings moment of humour

Most Days I spot something that brings a smile to my face, Today i felt i had to share it

Fools not left in van over night

The X Factor feeling

Having Spent 40 mins on the phone being quized on everyting but your inside leg measurement and then to be told you are through to the next round is just like being on the X Factor

Very exciting too !