Dodgy haircut

Could this be the new signing for the Grosvenor football team?

The tri-band is up

Saturday saw the full installation of my tri-band V-2000 vertical antenna. I’m hoping that some hefty Rawl bolts and Loctite will keep the antenna vertical and secure. The brackets are galvanised T&Ks and the short mast has a good wall thickness to reduce the chances of bending etc. It’s connected by thirteen meters of military spec coax to reduce losses.

Here are a couple of pictures to show it in its full glory.

Doing my bit to help in the fight against AIDS in Africa.

Time to do some Delphi programming

I thought my luck was in as I’d been asked to update a Delphi application. Unfortunately the area I need to change was written by a colleague (VB). To my amazement there are numerous layers of abstraction just to read some settings from the registry. I’m sure he planned this deliberately just to brighten up my day. I’m sure he’s smiling at the thought of me banging my head on the desk trying to decipher pages of code just so I can add one small feature.

Writing 16bit code with Borland's c++ builder !! What have I done to deserve this.....

One of my photographs has been used in an updated iPhone application. Check it out here:http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=london&sid=shopping_markets&p=56307&i=56307_132 Note that it's the one by "Ian Munro" and not RetroCoder :)

After a few months of hard work I've managed to pass the second amateur radio exam. I also got 100% in this one !

I'm the one on the left Vince, the one with lots of hair :)