And feeling like I could do with another holiday. Let's see :
Thursday - I'd given up on getting the laptop working with my old Airport Express so I went out Gromit Hunting, with an objective of acquiring a Bluetooth based widget after finishing up the Gromit Hunting.
Success !
I'm up to 55 out of 67 Gromits, Feathers and Wallaces now and I'm hoping for cool, clear skies on Friday to finish them off. I've enjoyed hunting them down, although some are in odd places this time. Definitely places I won't be interested in going anywhere near if this event happens for a 4th time. Bristol has some very rough places. Not so rough obviously ... but places that you suspect could turn very rough if you visited at the wrong time. (I live in a good area).
More Gromits !
Yep. Not many more Gromits to go before I see them all. That's Friday afternoon's plan. Did I mention music ?
I'd previously used an Apple Airport Express to stream music from laptop to hifi across the network. A good bit of kit, it worked pretty well although it needed the network gear resetting occasionally because it would lose the connection.
Things got a lot worse with it last week, where it would drop the connection and the audio stream after a few hours play. Efforts to fix it (updated firmware and moving it to a socket where it had more air for cooling - it runs warm) were in vain and I started looking for an alternate solution. I actually had that solution in mind already and acquired a Logitech Bluetooth audio adaptor. (Disclosure note - I paid for it, it was not a freebie). I'd thoroughly recommend it. Sounds good, so easy to set up that they barely give you a manual (if you've set up anything on Bluetooth, you don't need a manual for this) and it's been rock solid. Ok, there have been one or two minor glitches in the audio but these are very infrequent and last less than a fraction of a second.
Yep. Recommended. It is a standalone bit of kit that picks up the audio from Bluetooth and routes it to any sound device via headphones or RCA phono cables.
A while ago, I read a hifi mag report on wireless speakers and I was very disappointed at the time. It didn't have anything that could turn your existing hifi into a wireless receiver. It just covered stuff that was massively overpriced and was pretty much a second hifi. They didn't cover the Bluetooth adaptors ... and didn't cover that Apple Airport Express. Hifi mag very interested in having you buy the kit that comes from the people who advertise with them and Logitech and Apple don't advertise with them much.
Be wary of the motives of people who tell you to buy certain things ... have they given that proper disclosure note to show their motives. I add short ones because a disclosure note is an FCA required thing ... at least I think it's FCA. It's required in any case. I might even need to add "#ad" somewhere.
Anyway. Laptop is mostly tamed. I just need to :
Acquire a decent email client as the standard Microsoft one is utter garbage. I would rather pay for a new one than use that for much longer. The big issue with it is that I can't see where to set up a series of archive folders. I'd routinely pop invoice emails into a "Business" folder and new account set up things into a "Computing" folder. And similar. There doesn't seem to be a clean way of archiving stuff you want to actually keep.
More picture !
Lots of moving parts in this one, including an undercarriage that goes up and down plus an F35-like lift fan with doors above and below that open up. The canopy also lifts up and the twin tails go left and right.
It took a while (maybe 10 hours) and here it is :
And I now have the craving for more lego. Haha !
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